What are you afraid of? What do you know you should be doing but don’t because of fear?
Not because you don’t know how. Not because you don’t have the time or other resources. Simply because it scares the crap out of you.
It might the act of doing it. Public speaking may terrify you.
It might be possible outcomes. You’re afraid that if you start a blog, nobody will come.
It might be fear of failure or fear of success. Fear of rejection or fear of being ridiculed. Fear of losing your investment, or fear of being different.
We all have issues. The question is, what can we do about them?
We can make a decision. No, you can’t choose to not feel the fear. It’s there. Acknowledge it. Don’t fight it or try to reason with it. Let it go. It is what it is.
You can’t choose to not have the fear, but you can choose what you do about it.
You can allow your fears to stop you or you can choose to do the thing despite the fear.
Sometimes the best way to do that is in small increments. Baby steps. You may not be ready to do the keynote address at your bar meeting but perhaps you can introduce the speaker. If that’s too much, maybe you can introduce the guy who introduces the speaker.
Sometimes the best way to handle fear is to close your eyes and jump in.
A client owes you money. You have to call them to see if they’ve mailed the check they’ve promised. You don’t want to do it. It’s unpleasant. It makes you nervous. Stop thinking about it, grab the phone and start punching in numbers.
Some things may always scare us. Things that never get any easier. We feel the fear and do them because they must be done.
Other times, perhaps most of the time, we beat the fear. Things that once scared the juice out of us are no longer an issue. We did it, and it wasn’t as bad as we thought. Or we did over and over again and eventually got used to it. The thing we used to avoid doing is now a part of our repertoire.
Mark Twain said, “Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.” So what are you afraid of? And what are you going to do about it?
Clients owe you money? I can help you Get the Check.
