Are You Afraid You Won't Succeed?
"We suffer more often in imagination than in reality." --Seneca
Are your fears preventing you from taking massive action to achieve your goals?
Tim Ferriss: Why You Should Define Your Fears Instead of Your Goals
1. What if I (try to create an online business with Wealthy Affiliate) and...?
- Define the worst case scenario(s) of what you fear.
- Actions to prevent or minimize the impact(s) of what I fear.
- Actions to repair the damage(s) if the worst case scenario(s) occurs.
2. What Might Be the Benefits of an Attempt or Partial Success?
3. Cost of Inaction (Emotionally, Financially, Physically, etc...) - What Might My Life Look Like in:
- 6 Months?
- 1 Year?
- 3 Years?
"Easy choices, hard life. Hard choices, easy life." --Jerzy Gregorek
We've heard and read about stoicism from enough successful people to merit examining it further and applying it to our lives.
What's the worst thing that can happen?
Maybe this is the final piece that solves your puzzle.
Yours in health, wealth, and life!
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For me, there's always a little bit of fear of failing, but what I fear more is where I will be in 5 years if I do nothing to improve my circumstances and quality of life.
I would rather try and fail than do nothing and stay exactly where I'm at.
Hello! That's me, too. This is one of my all-time favorite quotes by Theodore Roosevelt:
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
I love it. I had forgotten about it for a few years. Michelle, above, commented and triggered my memory.
I hope this is the final piece to solve my puzzle. Not having much of a financial security in my future I felt I HAD to find something to help that. WA made sense to me. Hard choice...no! Easy work...no! Opportunity...YES!
Thanks Darren
I do a lot of goal setting, but I haven't done any fear setting. I'm going to start and I'm confident it will take me to a different level in my life.
Thanks, Irv!
Hmmm...My problem is that I believe I will succeed and get complacent. I need some fear to light a fire sometimes.
Thanks,
Darren
I've been hearing and reading about stoicism. I follow everything Tim Ferriss, and when I saw his Ted Talk, I finally got something tangible that I could follow.
Fear comes when an individual is not ready to bear negative consequences thus opts to take the less painful step.
That's why I love this quote so much:
"Easy choices, hard life. Hard choices, easy life." --Jerzy Gregorek
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I may have only casually thought about "the worst" but great things can come from digging deeper. Great insight, Darren.
All credit goes to Tim Ferris, the Great! I'm just a messenger. ;)
Well, not all messengers give the correct message!
True! ;D