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If we allow it, fear can stop us dead in our tracks. Every successful person has experienced just as much fear as an unsuccesful person, the difference is that they have learned to overcome their fear. They know their personal growth depends on it. How do they do it?
1. Acknowledge your fear and face it anyway:
Successful people realize the fastest way to overcome their fear is to face it head on. Whatever they are afraid of doing, they know that the sooner they do it, the sooner their fear will disappear. The unsuccessful people allow their fear to torcher them by not attempting to overcome it. They leave themselves in a position of constantly living in that fear because they don’t take the steps to move past it. Successful people know that they are more powerful than any circumstances in their lives including their fear.
2. Live in the Moment:
If you know there is a challenge coming up in your life, don’t let the thought of it consume you. You will never hear a successful person say, “I don’t think I will be able to handle that.” They know that when the time comes, they will be able to handle whatever is going on in their lives. They don’t allow the fear of the future to halt their progress in the present.
3. Let the positive feelings that follow conquering your fears to motivate you:
Think back to a time in your past when you faced a fear and overcame it. Do you remember how powerful and invinsible you felt at that moment. Successful people love to relive that feeling and use it to motivate them to conquer more of their fears.
The only difference between a successful person and an unsuccessful person is that the successful person is willing to do what the unsuccessful person isn’t. They don’t allow their fear to stop them . Do you?
August 27th, 2008 at 5:27 pm
Great post — Fear is the foundation of every achieved result. Just approaching something that evokes fear will empower you to achieve so much more in your life