The president of a large organization told me that when
he was a salesman he used to walk around the block five or
six times before he called on a customer. The sales manager
came along one day and said to him, “Don’t be afraid of the
boogie man behind the door. There is no boogie man. It is a
false belief.”
The manager told him that whenever he looked at his
own fears he stared them in the face and stood up to them,
looking them straight in the eye. Then they faded and shrank
into insignificance.