At Work: Overcome your fear to realize your dreams

"I can’t do that," they say. "What if I fail? What if it doesn’t work out?" But actor Bob Elkins has done what he wanted in his career because of fear — fear that he’d look back one day and say, "I should have."

Don’t think it was easy. The first time he told a would-be employer he’d need time off to go to auditions to (hopefully) act in a movie or play, "I was scared to death," he says.

By Andrea Kay, Gannett

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