Wealth never rewards wimps! Money only moves because of courage. You must have the courage to act on your ideas. Ask yourself: “What do I need to do right now to improve my business that I have not had the courage to do before?”
To help put things into perspective, let me give you an interesting definition of the word fear:
Fantasized
Experiences
Appearing
Real
Most of the things we fear are simply an exaggeration of our imagination. Since our subconscious mind and our nervous system don’t know the difference between reality and our imagination, they produce the same uncomfortable feelings of anxiety.
You must allow yourself to experience your fears and move through them with the courage to look, acknowledge and experience. Don’t resist, avoid or condemn your fears. It’s an interesting paradox in life that when you resist something it persists.
Many famous writers and artists alike recognize the importance of this metamorphosis:
Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.”
Eleanor Roosevelt observed, “You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you must stop and look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” And Mark Twain put it this way, “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear — not absence of fear.”
The truth is that success is never final and failure is never fatal — it’s courage that counts.
Progress in life is always going to involve risk. For you to be in control of your own destiny, you must be willing to be an actor in life versus a reactor to life. This means you must be willing to risk failure in order to grow. People who make no mistakes usually don’t take any risks, and therefore never allow themselves any opportunity to stretch and grow. In our past programming, many of us have been taught to play it safe, to not risk trying something new. We create an abundance of opportunities by trying new experiences. Every experience gives you additional resources and references, and teaches you valuable information for you to draw from. You have to look at life from a point of view where there is no such thing as failure, only results.
The most successful men and women in history have all had to deal with change, uncertainty, and fear. The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings. It’s clear that progress always involves risk. We shouldn’t fear trying something new or be afraid if our efforts do not work out, because we will always gain experience and wisdom. I would like for you to start asking yourself this important question if you are being challenged by something right now: What can I do about this situation? What opportunities are in this setback for me? n
