What is Fear?
The overriding cause of fear is excessive preoccupation with the Self.
Types of Fear:
1. Fear of Failure
2. Fear of Making Mistakes
3. Fear of rejection
4. Fear of change
5. Fear of confrontation
6. Fear of loss
7. Fear of success!
8. Fear of the Unknown
The biggest barrier that most people have to overcome is fear. It is this fear (and all of its cousins like worry, anxiety, and self-doubt) that paralyses you, and keeps you from succeeding.
EFFECTS OF FEAR
No matter how foolish or humorous another person’s fears may seem to us, our own seem serious. If allowed to control our lives, fear can be a permanent detour on the success journey, stopping us from making any progress.
Fear breeds Inaction Inaction leads to Lack of Experience Lack of Experience fosters Ignorance; and Ignorance breeds Fear - John Maxwell
OTHER EFFECTS OF FEAR
The overriding cause of fear is excessive preoccupation with the Self.
Types of Fear:
1. Fear of Failure
2. Fear of Making Mistakes
3. Fear of rejection
4. Fear of change
5. Fear of confrontation
6. Fear of loss
7. Fear of success!
8. Fear of the Unknown
The biggest barrier that most people have to overcome is fear. It is this fear (and all of its cousins like worry, anxiety, and self-doubt) that paralyses you, and keeps you from succeeding.
EFFECTS OF FEAR
No matter how foolish or humorous another person’s fears may seem to us, our own seem serious. If allowed to control our lives, fear can be a permanent detour on the success journey, stopping us from making any progress.
Fear breeds Inaction Inaction leads to Lack of Experience Lack of Experience fosters Ignorance; and Ignorance breeds Fear - John Maxwell
OTHER EFFECTS OF FEAR
- Procrastination
- Sluggishness
- Not taking Initiative
- Laziness & Indecision
- Timidity
- Introversion
- Reticence (Uncommunicative)
- Inactivity
ANTIDOTES
Dream: Your dream is one of the most effective antidotes for fear. It can fuel the flames of desire within you until you are willing to confront and overcome your fear. Your dream can help you go where you are afraid to go and do what you are afraid to do. Your dream can provide the spark that will turn your fear to fire.
Action: Action is the only antidote for fear. Act in spite of fear, and the death of fear is certain. When it comes to dealing with fear, you have 3 choices:
1. Try to avoid it altogether. But that means staying away from every known or potential fear-producing person, place thing, or situation.
2. Hope that it will go away. But that’s like hoping for a fairy godmother to rescue you.
3. Face it and overcome it Discover the foundation of fear. Most of the fears we face every day are not based on facts. They are generated by our feelings. For example, a study conducted by the University of Michigan showed the following:
- 60 percent of our fears are totally unwarranted; they
never come to pass
- 20 percent of our fears are focused on our past, which
is completely out of our control
- 10 percent of our fears are based on things so petty
that they make no difference in our lives
- Of the remaining 10 percent, only 4 to 5 percent could
be considered justifiable.
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