Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway

You’re Listening to the Street Smart Wealth Podcast, show 219 and welcome to the fabulous new year, 2016! As I have mentioned, we are starting a book of the month for the next 12 months. We are starting with Feel the Fear and Do it Anyway, by Susan Jeffers.

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Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway

I love this book, and it is timeless. Let’s face it, fear is probably the #1 thing that holds most of us back in our Direct Sales business. So, what if we make a slight shift in how we SEE and handle fear?

And, the story we make up about it?

What are your fears? Be honest, take an inventory and write them down.

We are going to re-educate our minds to shift from thinking that we must overcome FEAR, and realize that fear is a fact of life, and NOT a barrier to our success.

When you take a chance, and get bold, and take steps despite your fears, you begin to change the way you experience fear, and the hold that it has on you.

3 Levels of Fear

Level 1 - facts of life fears and action fears

Fact of life fears are things like aging, children leaving home, death and dying, natural disasters. They are things that happen, and are often inevitable and out of our control.

Action fears are those things we must take action on in order to experience - rejection, success, failure, disapproval, loss of self image.

We must DO something in order to actually experience this fear as a reality, and not just think it will happen.

Level 3 fear is one thing - I Can’t Handle it!

And, when you break it down, all fears come down to this ONE thing - I can’t handle it!

I can’t handle it rejection! I can’t handle it death of a loved one! I can’t handle it if someone says something negative about me and Direct Sales!

Who knows why we stop trusting ourselves, but often we do.

Let’s just change that from here going forward.

New Mantra - Whatever happens to me, in any situation, I can handle it!

IF we wait for our fears to go away before we take action, we will never advance, because fear does not go away, necessarily.

5 Truths About Fears

Truth #1 - The Fear will never go away, even as I am growing and moving forward.

Truth #2 - The only way to get rid of the fear of something is to just go out and do it!

Truth #3 The only way to feel better about myself is to go out and do it!

Truth #4 - Not only will I experience fear whenever I do something outside of my comfort zone, so does everyone else!

Truth #5 - Pushing through fear is less frightening than living with the underlying fear that come from feeling helpless!

Shifting from Pain to Power

Fear is not the problem. How we feel and hold onto fear is.

Shift your self talk.

Change - I can’t to I won’t Change - I should to I could Change - it’s not my fault to I take responsibility Change - life’s a struggle to life’s an adventure Change - it’s terrible to it’s a learning experience

Rate each fear on a scale of 1 to 10 and work to move toward a 10 each day.

Each day, do something that you once viewed as scary, or risky. Take small baby steps and see how you feel!

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