Don't Allow Your Fears to Interfere With Your Goals

Recently, a colleague asked me how I faced my fears when I started my life coaches association and I really had to stop and think about it. I asked her what kind of fears was she thinking of. She replied, "fear of no one signing up (rejection), fear of making a mistake, fear of looking stupid, and fear of not appearing professional.

I had to admit that I had all of those thoughts but I knew what I wanted to do and I just forged ahead with it. "Feel the fear and do it anyway" was my motto.

So let me ask you... what are you afraid of? What fears are preventing you from moving forward with your dreams, or doing your great work? If you can identify them, you are on your way to overcoming them. Then think about the following:

Was Donald Trump afraid of looking stupid when he went bankrupt the first time?
Was Princess Diana afraid of making a mistake when she divorced Prince Charles?
Was Abe Lincoln afraid of looking amateurish as President when he refused to allow the southern states to secede from the union?
Was Gandhi afraid of looking stupid when he went on a hunger strike?
Was Mark Zuckerberg afraid no one would sign up when he started Facebook?

I'm sure you can think of more examples and the answer to all of these questions is no. All of these people did what they knew they had to do regardless of the consequences. They believed in themselves and they believed in their dream. And this is what you need to do in order to overcome your fears. When you look at it that way it isn't so hard.

Believing in yourself and believing in your dreams should be easy. Instead of focusing on fear, focus on your passions, goals, and desires. It's just a matter of shifting your attention, which is the great Law of Attraction technique. Attracting what you want is based on what you have your attention on. It's not that hard to shift your attention, is it?

Of course not! This is how you overcome your fears. Identify them, face them openly, acknowledging them, and then shift your attention to what you need to do and take inspired action.

Remember that all successful people had many failures before they became successful. That's because they took action that they felt compelled to take in spite of their fears and misgivings. When they failed, they used it as a learning curve, or stepping stone to the success they desired. Don't be intimidated by successful people, be inspired by them. Face your fears and get on with your great work.

The world will not be complete unless you share the gifts you came here with, and act on your hunches and gut feelings as to what you came here to do. Listen to your inner guidance and follow your dream into your own reality. When you believe in yourself, you can trust the Universe to work everything out for you.

Jeannette Koczela coaches solopreneurs who want to get more clients, grow their business, and make more money. By subscribing to her newsletter you will receive inspiring articles every week. You will also receive her Empowered Spirit Coaching Success Kit including her report "3 Secrets to Attract Your Ideal Clients," by visiting her website http://www.empoweredspiritcoaching.com/.

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Steps To Overcoming Fears

Nearly everyone has certain fears that often nearly paralyze their ability to take viable and effective action, or even to conduct everyday activities. We often refer to the narrow part of the spectrum that they are willing to embrace their personal comfort zone, and far too many people will do almost anything not to have to stray outside that zone. It is important for us to remember that most fears are not based on rationality, but rather some attitudinal or adaptive mechanism that we adapt to insulate ourselves.

1. While most people will try to explain away these fears by referring to them as being fear of failure, my many years of experience training and working with people in the areas of leadership and attitude adjustment makes me convinced that it is more often success that an individual fears that failure. Why, you might wonder, would someone be afraid to succeed? Quite simply, many people fear success because they fear that when they succeed, both they and others will have higher expectations in the future, and they fear the additional stress and pressure that they perceive from that. Since many of these people have spent their lives achieving somewhat mediocre results, they find it difficult and challenging to even visualize being successful. People create personal comfort zones to avoid doing anything that causes them difficulty or creates discomfort.

2. Most people spend more time worrying about something than doing anything about it. When one visualizes a problem, it will often bring on and/ or introduce a problem into ones consciousness, and causes someone to spend excessive time and effort worrying about how this problem can be corrected. Of course, if one sees the situation as a challenge instead of a problem, he visualizes success, and clears his mind to develop a viable strategy to transform the challenge to an obstacle, and then the obstacle into something that is overcome.

3. In order to overcome fears, instead of fixate negatively about them, it is necessary for each of us to honestly and thoroughly examine our selves and our intents, and in doing so pinpoint our strengths and our weaknesses. Effective strategy always calls for building on and utilizing strengths, while transforming identifiable weaknesses into something that we can overcome, and make into another of our strengths. Too many people are in some sort of denial when it comes to themselves. They easily criticize and find faults in others, but appear to see no personal flaws. Since all humans have flaws, the difference between overcoming fears and hiding from them, is often taking that first step to get to know oneself better, and work on those things that could use improvement, enhancement or tweaking.

We all need to work on having a positive, can- do attitude, and looking at how to expand our comfort zone, and improve as a human being. It all begins with that first step!

Richard Brody has over 30 years consultative sales, marketing, training, managerial, and operations experience. He has trained sales and marketing people in numerous industries, given hundreds of seminars, appeared as a company spokesperson on over 200 radio and television programs, and regularly blogs on real estate, politics, economics, management, leadership, negotiations, conferences and conventions, etc. Richard has negotiated, arranged and/ or organized hundreds of conferences and conventions. Richard is a Senior Consultant with RGB Consultation Services, an Ecobroker, a Licensed Buyers Agent (LBA) and Licensed Salesperson in NYS, in real estate.

Richard Brody has owned businesses, been a Chief Operating Officer, a Chief Executive Officer, and a Director of Development, as well as a consultant. Richard has a Consulting Website ( http://tinyurl.com/rgbcons ); a blog ( http://tinyurl.com/rgbstake ); and can be followed on Twitter.

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Steps to overcome Fears

Almost everyone has some concerns, which are often nearly paralyze their ability to take feasible and effective measures, or even conduct everyday business. Often will be referred to the narrow part of the spectrum that wish to embrace their personal comfort zone, and too many people will do almost anything you do not have to stray outside the euro area. It is important for us to remember that most of the concerns are based on rationality, but rather some support or Adaptive mechanism that we can adapt to protect ourselves.

1. Although we will try to, that most people away resolve these concerns, referring to them as the fear of failure, My many years of experience training and working with people in leadership and attitude adjustment makes me convinced that the more often it is a success that he fears the accident. Why do you think, somebody would be boi successfully? Just to say many people fear success because they fear that once they succeed, both they and others will have to wait in the future, and they fear the additional stress and pressure that they perceive from the others. Since many of these people have spent their lives somewhat unsatisfactory, achieve results they prove difficult and exciting even visualize, may succeed. People create personal comfort zones to avoid something that causes them hardship or creates unease.

2. most people spend more time worrying about something than to do something about it. After one visualizes the problem, he will often lead and/or enter the problem into ones consciousness and causes someone to spend excessive time and effort worrying about how you can correct this problem. Of course, if one is seen as a challenge rather than a problem, it visualizes success and clears his mind to develop viable strategies to transform challenging obstacle and impediment to something that is overcome.

3. in order to overcome fear, rather than fixate negatively about them, it is necessary for each of us fairly and thoroughly examine our intentions and our generators and, in doing so that our strengths and our weaknesses. Effective strategy always involves building and use the strengths, when transforming to identify weaknesses in something that we can overcome and make up to another of our strengths. Too many people are in some sort a refusal with regard to each other. They easily criticize and find errors in the other, but seems to see no personal flaws. Because all human flaws, the difference between overcoming fears and hiding from them, often taking the first step to know themselves better and work on those things that could use improvement, expansion or complicated.

All we need to work on having a positive, can-do attitude and perspective on how to improve our comfort zone and to improve as human beings. It all starts with that first step!

Richard Brody has over 30 years of sales, marketing, consultancy, training, management and operations experience. Has trained sales and marketing people in numerous industries, given hundreds of seminars, appeared as a spokesman for the company on over 200 radio and television programmes, and regularly blogs on real estate, politics, economics, management, leadership, negotiations, conferences and conventions, etc. Richard has been negotiated, arranged and/or organized hundreds of conferences and conventions. Richard is a senior consultant with RGB, Ecobroker counselling services, licensed buyers Agent (LBA) and licensed dealer in Aldous HUXLEY, in real estate.

Richard Brody of company-owned, was appointed Director, Managing Director and Director of development, as well as a consultant. Richard has a Consulting Web site (http://tinyurl.com/rgbcons); blog (http://tinyurl.com/rgbstake); and may be used on Twitter.

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