The most challenging adversity exists in the mind. The willingness to face your personal darkness is work and the hard thing. The demon of doubt, the demon of a low esteem and the fear of failure reside there.
I have made you to be internally motivated not externally. This means that both cowardice and courage are internal mechanisms. The world, the culture or the powers that be, can only influence the opinions, that are already in you.
The lucid thoughts and the second guessing of self are the residues of a fallen world, no one is immune. However, the conquerors are those that embrace the call being fully aware of these limitations and excel despite them.
In the midst of Eden stood two trees, the Tree of Life and The Knowledge of Good & Evil. Adam and Eve had options and a decision to make. The same choice is yours, Will it be Life or Death?
Genesis 2:15-17
The LORD God placed the man in the Garden of Eden to tend and watch over it. But the LORD God warned him, “You may freely eat the fruit of every tree in the garden except the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. If you eat its fruit, you are sure to die.”
I Might Be a Prophet 