Be Fearless: Stories That Will Inspire You to LIVE Your Life

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Fear not! From the front in Baghdad to the floor of an NBA game, these firsthand stories will inspire you to stop your postponing, ledge-hugging ways, and step right up to a life fully lived -- and loved.

By Caroline Hwang

True Women Bravehearts

"Playing it safe is just playing," reads the fortune-cookie message I keep in my wallet. It's not that I lead such a high-stakes life, full of thrills and spills and dangerous gambles. I am, after all, an editor, who is planted at a desk all day. The opportunities for derring-do aren't exactly coming at me like balls in a batting cage.

But there are leaps I haven't taken. Some are as big as having a baby; some are as small as pulling on Rollerblades again since a gravel-eating fall. I know I'm not the only one with unchased dreams and aims. So what is holding us back? How do we set aside fear? Here's what I learned from true women bravehearts -- including "original Dreamgirl" Mary Wilson, Olympian Misty May, and a U.S. Army officer serving in Iraq.

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