Financial crisis, recession, bailouts, salary freezes, unemployment, foreclosures, business failures, credit crunch – these are the power words leading the news in America and globally.
Everywhere you turn, on TV and radio, in newspapers, at the water cooler… doom and gloom. And, for so many, the impact is very real in their lives.
Is fear and anxiety depressing and overwhelming your life right now? Are you feeling powerless? Like a victim? Confused? Uncertain about direction?
You’re far from alone. But this kind of thinking MUST stop. It must end today. This moment.
Victim-thinking is a highly contagious virus
Fight it with every ounce of strength you can muster. Otherwise it will either destroy you, or you will live your life in a malaise – Henry Thoreau’s life of quiet desperation. You don’t want to go there. Escape is more and more difficult the longer you live there.
Take charge of your life right now… not tomorrow… NOW!
With job, income, investment and business insecurity so strong, the next few years will see a quantum shift in focus toward Internet entrepreneurship. Fear and anxiety permeate the lives of too many people. The allure of added income and business independence on the Internet will grow and become more and more mainstream.
At the same time,
limited Internet business skills and capital
increased competition in common niches and
increasing confusion from so much advice on how to get started
will challenge “newbies†as never before… will challenge YOU.
This blog isn’t about Internet marketing strategies or tactics. It’s about what I believe to be the #1 barrier to success… irrational fears.
Join me in this conversation as we explore together how to unchain our lives from fear…and make those fears irrelevant as we pursue success with a greater passion and confidence than you or I ever thought possible. The journey to overcome our irrational fears never ends. It’s like addiction. One day at a time… and find a support group you trust.
I will read every comment to my posts, and welcome your suggestions on how we can make this conversation more meaningful.
Here’s a potentially profound question for you… What is the single most important skill you could learn that would mean the most in your ability to be successful… in your career, in your business, in your life? The most critical thing you could learn how to do… what should be at the top of your to-do list?
A better memory? How to read faster? Become better organized? Maybe learn how to more effectively influence people? Sure, all these are important… but what’s number one? What single skill could make you more powerful, more effective, more passionate, more energized, more alive than anything else you could learn?
I propose to you that the single most important skill you could learn right now… the one that would make the most difference in every part of your life… is one that you most likely wouldn’t even think of as something you learn.
Curious? View this video for an answer that will make a huge difference in both your business and personal life…
In researching “fear†as I prepared to take on this initiative, I came across some very personal and moving articles and literature. The battle with fear is virtually universal to the human condition… and affects us deeply.
We all tend to focus on that battle with the assumption that it is our shortcomings, our failures, our inabilities that haunt us with the greatest intensity.
I agree with renowned author and spiritual teacher Marianne Williamson … “it is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.” “Playing small doesn’t serve the world.”
Allow yourself to be as successful and extraordinary as you are capable of being. You are so capable of shining brightly — if only fear can be pushed aside so that your own light can shine.
Here is Marianne Williamson’s profound message…
Our Deepest Fear
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant,
gorgeous, talented and fabulous?
Actually, who are we not to be?
You are a child of God.
Your playing small doesn’t serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking
so that other people won’t feel insecure around you.
We are all meant to shine as children do.
We were born to make manifest
the glory of God that is within us.
It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone.
And when we let our own light shine,
we unconsciously give other people
permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear,
our presence automatically liberates others.
Marianne Williamson
A Return to Love: Reflections on the
Principles of ” A Course in Miracles”
Why aren’t you yet the fully formed, extraordinary person you aspire to be?This video may hit a little too close to home for some, but it is critical to honestly and objectively understand the true “I†before you can passionately dedicate yourself to the journey ahead.
So much awaits you on the other side of your irrational fears.Be totally honest with yourself now, and your future will be more fulfilling than you can even imagine today.
Watch this video twice.Think about it.Then make sure you register for the “7 Brain Laws†Audio Program Series.
Honestly looking inward, together with implementing the brain-science-basedhow-to’s we’ll share with you on this journey , will make 2009 feel like a launching pad for a new life… a Fear-Less life!
