In the mist dark figures move and twist (Iron Maiden)

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Currently, a friend of mine is looking the beast in the eye.

My advice? Listen to Dan Rockwell on the subject. I think he's spot on:

• Create four options before choosing one path forward.
• Believe in your ability to learn, grow, and adapt.
• Remember times when you rose up and faced big challenges in the past.
• Respond to your fear of losing by developing strategies and taking aggressive action.  
• Think more about taking action than doing everything perfectly.
• Hang with men and women of valor. Listen to people with battle scars. Doers are better than dreamers when it comes to looking the beast in the eye.
• Worry more about the next play and less about winning.

Feel the fear and do it anyway. Don't overthink it. Just do it.

Something like that.