Fear

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It seems that every day the news is getting more and more confusing and disturbing. The steep decline in the stock markets, companies "re-sizing" and combining operations, and the credit tightening the banks are pushing. For some the barriers to a balanced personal life and a more successful professional life are getting higher and higher.  Unfortunately, this all impacts our decision making capabilities. We question our rationale and the fears are taking over! Too many of our important decisions in life are based purely on or out of fear - usually unrealistic fear. Some of us let blown-out-of-proportion fear dominate their lives.

Even in today's slower economy some people are taking advantage of new opportunities and marketplace conditions and offer new services and products or focus on add-ons or are buying real estate or change careers. However, some people are panicking and believe the sky is falling.  Sadly, they see the entire world through the lens of "economic fear." It blinds them to all the opportunities around them and they freeze up. Let's prove the point. Who would you be, what would you have, and what would you do if you knew with absolute certainty that you could not fail? The answers to that question will reveal your heart's true desires. Maybe you want to change your career, expand your current business, or want to buy that special boat, car, house, or vacation spot.  Or, you would want more income, free time, or even better health.  If so, what is holding you back from these desires? The odds are it is unrealistic fears holding you back and holding you down -- typically the fear of failure and/or fear of what other people think.

Want to learn to control these mental demons? Then try a three-step, mind-expanding process focusing on - worst case, likely case, and best case.

• 1. First, ask yourself, what is the worst that can happen if I take action on my dream and my fear comes true? If you can face, deal with and survive the worst-case scenario, then absolutely nothing can hold you back.
• 2. Second, ask what is most likely to happen if the fear materializes. Odds are this answer is more realistic and less threatening.
• 3. Third, ask yourself what could be the best outcome if you move forward in spite of your fear? Let go and see, feel, hear and taste the outcome of tremendous success. Make this positive scenario as intense as your worst-case scenario but to the other extreme.

All of these answers, blended together, will give you a more realistic view of your situation.

Now, reflect on all these answers -- the worst, the best, and the average. Realize the truth is probably a blended average of all three. Now, instead of being paralyzed by the worst-case scenario, you have other more realistic and balanced perspectives to give you confidence to take that important first step toward achieving your dream.

Feel the fear (less intense now) and take action!