What do you Fear?

I have been doing a lot of personal development studying in the past few weeks. (In almost a month I have devoured like 6 books!) Many of these books really remind me that many of the things I fear are fears simply in my head.

I was so proud of a friend of  mine who recently took this lifelong fear of snakes - and made a commitment to face her fears. She asked the help of a friend - who knows someone who owns a reptile shop. To allow her to pet a snake. I thought, "Wow, she's amazing to take this fear and really face it head on." I have been out hiking with her when she's seen a snake and jumped 500 feet in the air (Superman you're leaping a tall building in a single bound has nuthin' on her when she sees a snake!). I know this was a real fear for her so much so that she may have wanted to hike on certain trails during certain times of the year - but wouldn't because there were snake sightings.

While I was not there when she faced her fear, she did post photos on facebook when she accomplished the feat. I thought she would just touch the snake and be done with it. I thought the snake would stay safely inside it's cage (or whatever you call those tanks). But no, not only did she just pet the dang thing but she let it crawl on her arm!!!

What do you fear? Are your fears just in your head? What have you made so big - that it stops you from hiking the mountain you want to climb?