What am I afraid of?
I heard an interesting talk today at church about fear. We often think we are scared of objects, like spiders, snakes, water, heights (slightly abstract object)… What we really fear is the effect they have on us. The fear of spiders comes from imagining some harm they could do to our bodies, etc.
Failure is a big fear, and it comes down to the fear of our personhood being worthless. To counter that I need to remember that my worth comes from God and his sacrifice for me, not from my successes and failures.