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Master Your Fears
"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear."--Mark Twain
I found an interesting thing when I looked up courage in the dictionary. .. 'the quality of mind or spirit that enables a person to face difficulty, danger, pain, etc. without fear or bravery.'
This struck me as interesting because it's the one time I'm not sure I would agree with the dictionary. To me, courage is doing something in spite of fear, not with an absence of fear. Bravery, for example is a way of acting in our lives in a way in such that we are doing what needs to be done even if we have fear.
Genuinely courageous and brave people don't lack fear. They are acting in spite of the fear. I define courage and bravery as doing what needs to be done in spite of fear. If it didn't have the element of fear, why would we need the courage to do it?
Think of a time when you should have taken some sort of action but didn't. Why didn't you move forward? What prevented you from acting? Think about this.
Think of another time when you needed to act but didn't. Why didn't you take the action you needed to that time?
Think about these two events and consider the similarities. There's going to be at least one, and possibly more. I suspect the main common denominator is some sort of fear.
The big question is, what would have happened if you had acted despite your fear? Work through these two events in your mind and think about how it could have gone the other way. What might the outcome have been if you had pushed through the fear? And what is the absolute worst thing that could have resulted if things didn't go your way?
Think back to the first event and how you chose not to act or not to act as fully as you could have.
Might you have had success? What's the absolute worst thing that would have happened had things not gone the way you hoped for? How bad could it have been? Would you have been thrown out? Would you have been cursed at? Would you have been told no?
Could you have lived with that outcome, that worst case scenario? I'd wager money that, yes, you could have lived with it.
Oscar Wilde once said, "One's real life is often the life that one does not lead." What is the real life that you're not living because of a lack of courage? Conversely, in what ways have you acted despite your fear that have changed your life for the better?
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Kenrick Cleveland teaches techniques to earn the business of affluent prospects using persuasion. He runs public and private seminars and offers home study courses and coaching programs in persuasion techniques.
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