CLEVELAND — Social media feeds are often filled with photos of smiling families, exotic vacations, hardcore workouts and mouth-watering food.

But life is far from picture-perfect.

“We’re not really seeing the true people in our lives, we’re seeing a snapshot that has a filter on it,” said Scott Simon, founder of Scare Your Soul.

BY JENNIFER JORDAN

The Scare Your Soul movement challenges people to get out of their comfort zone. To try new things and ignite their best self.

“It’s about confronting what we all deal with every day, which is fear,” Simon said. “Fear’s job is solo. It’s to keep us safe. That’s fear’s job and in many cases that’s very important. We don’t want to walk out in the middle of traffic. We have to know fear Is real. But when fear isn’t real and its stories we’re creating in our head about if I do this, I’ll get embarrassed, or other people may not approve or I may fail. We all have those feelings, but if we can get beyond that and take that one little step to push our comfort zone we realize we really can do those things. Then we share then, which to me is really the magic of Scare Your Soul.”

“A study from 2016 indicated that only 9% of people feel that their New Year’s resolutions were successful at the end of the year,” he says. “People are left feeling like they didn’t hit the mark.”

To encourage people to hit the core of their goals and values, Simon suggests taking time to write yourself a letter.

“This is a letter that nobody else will see,” he says. “It’s not about resolutions; it’s about feelings and values, and it comes from your heart. Most people have probably never taken the opportunity to write a letter to themselves, but when you do it, magical things start to happen. You start to lead your life according to your own set of goals and wishes that that come from within.”

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