LEADERS TURN AROUND THE TELESCOPE TO TACKLE FEAR!

LESSON: Fear is debilitating and terrifying, but great leaders turn around the telescope and see their adversaries, no matter how Goliath, as smaller, defeatable foes when truth and the universe are on our side. If God is for us, who can be against us!

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Jeff Martinovich
May 10, 2025

The lesson below is an excerpt from my upcoming book, Icarus: Zero to a Billion to Zero, January 2026, Ash Press.

LESSON: Fear is debilitating and terrifying, but great leaders turn around the telescope and see their adversaries, no matter how Goliath, as smaller, defeatable foes when truth and the universe are on our side. If God is for us, who can be against us!

This week I was reminded of my daily ritual in the Prison Law Library to turn around the telescope and look at the terrible, super-powerful, government people who controlled my life as very-tiny foes, so their overwhelming and powerful resources didn’t produce debilitating fear in me and cause me not to fight the good fight!

Turning around the telescope, and seeing everything so much smaller, is an incredible hack to stop the debilitating fear of the challenges and challenging people you have in front of you.

As I’ve written, when I refused federal Wall Street overtures, refused government regulators, and then even refused federal prosecutors, all in the pursuit of the truth and what was right, I must admit I was scared to death for over 10 years, 24 hours per day, 7 days a week. Still today, Ashleigh leads me to the upstairs bedroom when I scream and punch at the air in horrible nightmares about the terrible, bad people in our world.

Yet, I may not be able to control the nightmares of my subconscious, even though Ginny is helping me with that, but I can control every moment of my conscious thought to not let fear stop my unbelievable, miraculous resurrection. From the prison law library, I daily turned the telescope around and shut out the arguments that the judges, prosecutors, and attorneys are all going to kill me if I keep reversing these court decisions and removing federal judges. I was able to view the bad people as small and insignificant, and not on the right side of the truth of the universe. It eventually worked by giving me daily strength to out-produce them, out-evidence them, and out legal-them, which I don’t think that’s a word! The exact same logic works for you this week!

Tomorrow, I ask you leaders to turn around the telescope. Don’t appease bad people and organizations. Don’t be scared. Don’t compromise. Don’t acquiesce. Goliath is not as big as he appears. They are paper tigers at the end of the day…

Have a great week!