Succumb to your fear, and understand it!

Hell everyone, it’s Adam.

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This week’s post was inspired by the book The Four Hour Work Week by Timothy Ferriss. Recently, a friend of mine recommended this book to me, and since I got it I have not been able to put it down. (Thanks Karen!) If you have not yet read this impressive and entertaining work, I recommend that you take the opportunity to as soon as possible. Tim’s message much like our own, focuses on taking positive action. His actions have landed him, and many of those that have read his book, in what he has titled “the new rich”. These new rich are able to live their fantasy lifestyle in real life. Of course this may sound too good to be true. It all starts with understanding one simple lesson. It is a lesson that Tim regularly repeats as one of his mantras “What is the worst that could happen.” It is this singular thought that keeps him taking action after action in his life. He has a massed a fortune, and has also helped countless people live more fulfilled lives.

We all get to a point where we see our ideal future in front of us. You could dream of becoming a surfing instructor in Fiji, work at the non-profit of your dreams, become a schoolteacher, or start a Blog. We all have goals in our life, unless you are taking immediate and real action to get there, there is something holding you back. For many of us that is fear, fear can be a powerful motivator of inaction. It can convince us of maintaining the status quo, preventing us from taking action of what we really want. As long as we continue to allow our fear to drive us, our goals will remain just that, goals. We need to see our goals as RESULTS. It is results that we are truly looking for. As you can tell I am passionate about focusing our efforts on getting what we want out of life. If you added up all the time and energy you have spent considering something you have always dreamed of doing, you may have already been able to use that time and energy to achieve it. Lets get started!

Of course, if it were that easy, you would have already done it… Right? The good news is it can be just that easy. In Tim’s book, he recommends a very specific strategy. I suggest you make the following one of your personal PositiveActions of your week. Start it off right and allow yourself to see your fear for what it is.

Mark Twain famously said, “I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.” It is with that spirit that we continue.

NOTE: The following is only part of Tim’s recommendation from The Four hour Work Week, to get the entire message I recommend reading the book.

“Define your nightmare, that absolute worst that could happen if you did what you are considering.” The simple action of detailing your fear, understanding what it is you are truly afraid of, will put your fear into perspective. Three question’s Tim follows up with are “What would be the permanent impact, if any, on a scale of 1–10? Are these things really permanent? How likely do you think it is that they would actually happen?” After detailing your fear, is it something that you will survive, something that you would gain valuable life experience? We only live life once and it is up to us to choose what we do with our short time here on Earth. If you are not fully satisfied with what it is you are doing, big or small, it is up to you to take a positive action.

Make this the week to conquer your fears and to take positive action to make this week the best week of your life.

Sincerely,

Adam

Hear from the author. In this TedTalk Tim Ferris talks about some of his positive actions.

Here is your bonus message for this week. It comes to us from an eight year-old kid. "Sometimes I get scared, but then I just tell myself to do it, and I believe I can."