"Fear of all kinds and sizes is a form of psychological infection. We can cure a mental infection the same way we cure a body infection—with specific, proved treatments... condition yourself with this fact: all confidence is acquired, developed. No one is born with confidence. Those people around you who radiate confidence, who have conquered worry, who are at ease everywhere and all the time, acquired their confidence, every bit of it." ~ David J. Schwartz from The Magic of Thinking Big
Another Amen.
If you've read some of my Notes, you know that dealing with fear is a near-universal theme of all of these great books.
As Frank Herbert said in his genius book, Dune: "I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain."
And you know what kills fear?
ACTION.
As Schwartz so rightly says in The Magic of Thinking Big: "action cures fear. Indecision, postponement, on the other hand, fertilize fear... Jot that down in your success rule book right now. Action cures fear."
Seriously. Jot that down in your little success journal: ACTION CURES FEAR.
Are you afraid of something?
Here's what Schwartz (and I) can guarantee you: you're avoiding taking some sort of action.
So, what are you afraid of these days? Are you fertilizing your fears by not taking action? OK. Good to know.
Now what can you do to move straight at your fears? What little things can you do today to move forward? How about three things (they don't need to be huge) that you have been putting off:
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Good. Now time go do them!! :)
And, remember, "Hesitation only enlarges, magnifies the fear. Take action promptly. Be decisive." And watch your life accelerate in the right direction.
"Do you know your particular fears? And what do you usually do with them? You run away from them, don't you, or invent ideas and images to cover them? But to run away from fear is only to increase it." ~ Krishnamurti from On Fear
"The pain that's created by avoiding hard work is actually much worse than any pain created from the actual work itself. Because if you don't begin to work on those ideas that God has blessed you with, they will become stagnant inside of you and eventually begin to eat away at you. You might seem OK on the outside, but inside you will be ill from not getting those ideas out of your heart and into the world. Stalling leads to sickness. But taking steps, even baby steps, always leads to success." ~ Russell Simmons from Do You!
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