Warns you. Activates adrenaline. Fear keeps you safe through healthy caution, motivates the mind to action, and avails self-defense. But doubt is no ally. It is not discernment. It is not treading carefully. Doubt is the void, one of hesitation. It is paralysis. While healthy fear wakes you up, doubt demoralizes you. Facing a threat, doubt distracts and weakens your spirit.
It can bring you to defeat because you do not act. How can you beat the silent killer called doubt? By taking action and focusing on the end goal: Your own personal mission statement. The key is to take it one step at a time.
One small victory at a time. Doubt will paralyze you if you try to take on too much. But if you take on one thing, then you can begin to feel empowered. Choose one challenge that you feel you can handle. Just one. And handle it. That one victory will build your confidence and begin to weaken your doubt. The day after, take on a second challenge. Victory breeds victory. Confidence breeds confidence. Like slowly exercising and conditioning your muscles, these small victories build your confidence.
Even when you have a difficult day or face a setback, always remember: forge ahead. Know that you have an eternal flame inside you that can never be extinguished, even by years of doubt. Feed the fire with fuel: In every area of life, focus on one forward act at a time.
And always know that you are standing on a secure foundation — the certainty that you are connected to an infinite light. Armed with your small victories and confidence in your secure base, you can and will experience the joy of overcoming doubt. Did you enjoy this? It's free! Click here to find out more.
Overcoming fear: To face the transitions and battles of life you must fortify your inner life. You must build a strong inner core — a home and family that provides you with the security and confidence to handle any force or enemy from without. The culture of fear is not reality. Reality is much higher and bigger and more interesting than the culture of fear. Liberated from the fear that's holding you back, you move boldly and swiftly towards your dreams—I guess that's the idea?
Fear is natural and healthy. It's okay to be afraid that something will or won't ever happen. It's okay to be invested in your life and encounter the feelings of:.
When you don't build a tolerance for a healthy, natural amount of fear, you unconsciously turn toward avoidant behaviors that mess everything up.
You worry to distract yourself from feeling the fear. To distract yourself from accepting that there are some aspects of life that are out of your control. To distract yourself from accepting that yes, you're taking a risk and yes, you might get hurt. Worrying pretends to be necessary, but it's not proactive and it's not helpful. Worrying buddies up with your imagination to exploit your fears. Worrying is focusing your thoughts on all the negative outcomes at the opportunity cost of applying that same energy towards problem solving.
Fears need a combination of acceptance and positive reassurance to be managed. The energy you direct towards your thoughts and feelings is what you feed your state of mind.
Worry is junk food for your fears. Unlike creative problem solving, acceptance and recruiting support, worry doesn't do anything useful; it just broadcasts your fears so that your perspective becomes insular. Worry is full of empty calories and because you're not giving your fear anything useful to digest, your fear remains hungry, continues to binge on your negative thoughts, and eventually becomes obese.
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