A strategy useful in overcoming fear is to "move closer, stay longer. The game becomes how close can I come to achieving the result I want without becoming fearful and backing off to inaction.
The objective is to overcome fear bit by bit, action by action...pushing yourself to the point that the fear changes just a little. And the next time just a little more.
Fear is a natural state. Overcoming fear is an unnatural state that we rarely practice. Practice produces bravery in the form of constantly overcoming doubts and imaginations in the mind that would cause us to see what we are doing as unnatural, when in effect the abnormal state is to allow fear to rule our ability to move into unknown circumstances. As we consistently do this move closer stay longer, soon we will have conquered the glaring task. And the next time and the time after that we move closer faster and with more certainty that the action will be successful.
A number of successes mean that we are able to control the relentless suggestions that what we are attempting cannot be done. Some people have this bred into them because they rarely experience the conditions that many of us are exposed to in the normal course of life.
Take for example those who deal in million dollar deals. It would not be unusually for them to enter such negation or attempt such feats, whereas if you were skeptical about small experiences that involved only hundreds of dollars, the million dollar project would be almost unfathomable.
Here are some action steps you can take.
1. Think big and dream big. Add some zeros to your income potential. The mind will come into harmony with those thoughts and help create the bravery needed to attempt and follow through with the actions necessary for their accomplishment. Move closer and stay longer, first in the way you think about things and second in the way you do the actions needed to accomplish the objective.
2. Keep using the strategy of getting closer and closer before the onset of fear takes over. Stay longer and longer to neutralize the effects fear has on the mind. The brain then has accurate information to sort out real versus perceived danger. Until this moment the brain has operated on the perceived outcome. There was no definitive data upon which to base the outcome. So the fear experienced was the result of past experience whether they are real or imagined. This might come from televisions, radio, magazine articles or recounts of people who were presented with a set of circumstances, and we take it as the way we would react or how we should act.
3. It is simply not true that everyone's experiences will be the same whether this concerns failure or success. Your uniqueness causes the results to be individually peculiar to you. It is based on your past experience and ad how well you adapt to changing circumstances and the assimilation of new information.
4. Decide your goals from a personal point of view, pursuing them with intention grounded in the knowledge you have accumulated to make it unique. Staying with the fear until it is neutralized over time produces the exclusivity that is you. That is why each story is different when seen by the same individual.
That is why each experience is distinctive because the eye of our mind processes the data based on how close we came to neutralizing the fear factor to how long we stayed to how much accurate information we bring to perception. Feed the brain accurate information by staying closer and longer until the fear of the goal is neutralized.
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