By: Elizabeth Farias
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us,” this is a excerpt from Marianne Williamson’s poem “Our Deepest Fear”. The poem was shown to students by Tamia Dow, a retired police officer and detective. She worked for the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department for 25 years. She explained to the crowd of students at the Career Fair that in life you have to face your fears head on. Tamia Dow said, “Fear can limit your success and the fear comes from you.” This was one of the last lines by Dow, but it may have had the greatest impact. Part of Dow‘s talk at the Career Fair was explaining how fear can limit our success in many levels. One of the examples she used was being afraid of failing a test. She elaborated that if you’re afraid of failing a test, and decide not to go to school because of it, you are postponing the thing you’re afraid of instead of facing it. A tip she had was to take a piece of paper and on one side write the worst thing that could happen and on the other side write the best thing that could happen. This tip could be used for situations as simple as taking a test to choosing possible career paths. Throughout her talk Tamia Dow gave students an important life lesson. She explained how fear can limit success and even gave students a tip to deal with that fear. Dow herself has found a lot of success with a 25 year career as a police officer, detective and even writing 8 books. With her own experience of constantly facing her fears, Dow is proof that if you don't allow fear to get in the way you can be success in whatever you do.
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