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Friday
15Jan2010

Is fear holding you back?

"The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you. Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be acheived."

                                                                               --William Jennings Bryan

One day you decided to make a change, take control of your life and you decided to do it through network marketing. You did your research and picked a company. You starting getting all your ducks in a row. Learning, organizing, thought of a game plan and then...nothing. One definition of fear is "a distressing emotion aroused by impending danger, evil, pain etc...whether the threat is real or imagined; the feeling or condition of being afraid."

Beleive me I know exactly how you feel. What if I look stupid? What will my friends and family think? What if someone asks me a question I can't answer? Well you know what happens? Pretty much nothing. The world doesn't end, you don't fall over dead, you don't end up on the nightly news.

One of the hardest things to get into your mind and heart is what you think of yourself is so much more important than what other people think of you. Of course that's if you do your best and think of others first. If you're a jerk you're a jerk.

The road of personal development can be long, mine included but as long as you're moving forward you're making progress.

Wednesday
06Aug2008

Is Fear keeping you Stuck?

Lets face it we all like what's comfortable and familiar. Sometimes we're even happy there. More often than not I hear people talk about how unhappy they are or how they wish things were different. Oh well, that's life, I can't change things, what are you going to do. I'm quite intimate with this kind of thinking-been there done that. Deciding to build a network marketing business is a tremendous decision to begin with, then there's what comes next.

We've all felt the excitement of something new, telling everyone about it, feeling like you're on the verge of something great. And then...crash. We lose the excitement, we realize it's not going to be as easy as we thought or have been told. We'll have small successes followed by seemingly crushing failures. Fear starts to set in. What if I never reach my goals? What if no one sees the opportunity that I see? What if no one understands? What if...

Rejection, unreturned phone calls, oh no one of "those things". It's so easy to slip back into the familiar, the comfortable. The job we don't particularly care for, the bills we can barely keep up with, the dream vacation we'll never take but hey that's life. I looked up fear in the dictionary and found a pretty long definition. However "fearless" is simply defined as free from fear.

Being free from fear isn't about not having fear but rather not being held captive by it. Feel it, acknowledge it and free yourself by moving forward and do whatever it is you need to do. The funny thing about doing things you're afraid of is do them often enough and the fear diminishes until it's just a fleeting emotion. Is it easier said than done? ABSOLUTELY. Do it anyway.