Why A Businessman Needs To Be Friends With His Fears

Let’s learn to be motivated by fear, not deal with it.

Fears are afraid of sunlight.

Until you step over your inner blocks, the outer ones will stand firmly in place. It is difficult to implement your plans when you are afraid of something. It’s even more difficult when you don’t know what exactly. To know your real fear, you need to get to know it.

From childhood, we know that with the first rays of the sun, all fears disappear. In adulthood, clarity plays the role of sunlight. It is important to “pull” into the light everything that terrifies, paralyzes, and frightens.

List your fears.

Take at least 30 minutes to compile your fear list. Set your phone to silent mode, ask your colleagues or family members not to bother you, take a sufficient number of blank sheets.

At first glance, this task seems creepy. But in practice, many of the fears, once they get on paper, stop scaring. Most fears are simply drawn from the past, but in the present, they lose their power.

A childhood friend of mine was terrified of talking to strangers and speaking in front of an audience because of speech defects. When he got rid of them in public speaking classes, he realized that there were no longer his speech barriers between him and the audience. He calmed down and destroyed his childhood fear. It is possible that half of your fears are not working in the present tense. At the end of the day, most of them simply have no foundation and calmly disappear when they get on paper.

Turn fear into action.

Now that you are familiar with your fears, you can turn them into actions. Long reflection, pondering, coming up with contingency plans should be thrown away somewhere far away.

It’s important to start moving towards your goal despite your fears. Many are afraid to act because of possible mistakes.

To act is to make mistakes, learn from them, correct them and move forward. There is no “surefire plan”, no matter how much you come up with it. To achieve something, you need to make mistakes as often as possible.

One of the key skills of a successful person is overcoming difficulties. Therefore, stumble, try again, look for new opportunities to move to a new level.

Turn fear into the adventure.

You never know what kind of business horror story awaits you around the corner.

Once my friends and I went on a quest in reality, where you have to get out of the room, solving problems. We were all new to this, so no one knew the quest was in the horror genre.

It all started quite amusingly: a room, a computer, a bed, a locked door. On assignment, we had to find evidence and prove that the character did not commit suicide, but she was killed. For a good half hour, we could not understand anything and were stupid a lot. At some point, a woman in a white coat jumped out to meet us, with a wounded face, blood and a knife in her hands. Of course, it was all scripted and fake. But in a locked semi-dark room, it seems that all this is happening for real. After her appearance, we were so scared that we went through the remaining path of the quest in some 15 minutes. When we got out, the organizers said that we had broken the record.

Arm yourself with fear and do something like a quest with it. Let the adrenaline in your blood help you find bold decisions that you would not make in ordinary life (when you are not chased by a maddened woman with a fake knife).

Fear is the flag on the top of the mountain.

New York City Coach, Writer and Speaker Tina Essmaker said: “When you’re about to do something and you’re so afraid that a ferocious lion is roaring at you, ready to rip you apart … do not stop, but run. right at that roar! “

Fear allows you to understand something new, ascend to new heights, move to new levels. Being afraid is cool. Fear shows that you are on the right track. When you overcome it, then you paid the necessary price to get results.

Those who do not feel fear are uninformative. The more you know, the more you fear. A fearless person is not one who is not afraid. Fearless — one who does not allow fear to control his actions.

Be afraid and go ahead.