Fighting Fear with Landon

In Landon Ballard’s Episode 30 of Humans Anonymous posted January 3, 2025, he focuses on his past fear of failure and how such fear began to lessen when he stopped worrying less about himself and more about others.

As an example, he mentions Henry Crowell, a devout Christian and founder of Quaker Oats in 1877 in Ravenna, Ohio, which is currently based in Chicago.

Despite his own struggles in life, including living outdoors for seven years to combat tuberculosis and the loss of his wife to that disease, Mr. Crowell later discovered that service to others was the ultimate cure for whatever ailments he might later encounter.  He accepted his illness and was determined to overcome it through his spiritual beliefs and his service to the less fortunate.

Mr. Crowell’s life became defined as giving the less fortunate a hands up – as Landon has done to total strangers on the streets of Rockford, who, though they may have a drug-related addiction, are no less worthy of receiving a couple of bucks or a pair of gloves when the weather is 12 degrees and they – like Henry Crowell – are living outdoors.  Landon knows that feeling, because he’s also been there.

As Landon puts it, ‘when you’re thinking about others and truly caring about them, you’re not afraid of messing up or doing the wrong thing – because you’re actually doing the right thing.  Just like Henry Crowell.

Landon adds that ‘if you can’t think about other people first, then you’re never going to be as good as you’d like to be.’

Above commentary by Ray Moffitt