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Reduce Your Risk To Reduce Your Fear

Aug 14

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jumpingDaily Quote: “Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem to be more afraid of life than death.” James F. Bymes

If a fear is so overpowering that it paralyses you then scale down your risk. Whatever it is that is creating such fear in your mind, chop it down to smaller steps. You want to set yourself tasks that you can manage. That does not mean that all fear will disappear, but it will mean that you will be able to overcome the smaller fears.

Reducing your tasks that are so frightening works hand in hand with your goal setting. When identifying your goals you will also want to ensure that you have set them down to be manageable. That is you have identified the many small steps you need to take in order to reach those goals.

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How Fo Face Down Your Fears

Aug 12

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fearDaily Quote: Courage is not the lack of fear but the ability to face it.” Lt. John B. Putnam Jr

There are many ways to face down your fears, not the least of which would be to go to a psychologist or hypnotherapist. Of course there are many times in your life where your fear is about something so little that a visit to a specialist is not really called for.

Having said that there are of course some people who do shuffle off to their therapist at the thought of a situation that they could have some form of anxiety over. But most people do not consider their fears strong enough to require some form of clinical treatment.
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Feel Your Fear And Do It

Aug 11

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www.selfalot.comDaily Quote: “The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear.” H.P. Lovecraft

For some reason we are growing up being scared of everything. We are worried when we start a new job. We are scared when we have to move to a new place. We are concerned when we are meeting a new date for the first time. We are constantly in a state of fear.

It is said that the brave people are the ones who have fear but do it regardless. And that is probably a true and valid statement.
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Why Are We So Afraid?

Aug 10

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Almost_perfect13Daily Quote: “I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.” NelsonMandela

Have you spent some time examining your thinking and emotions when you are going through a particularly scary experience. What are your thoughts and what are you imagining will be happening to you by the end of this period that you are viewing with such fear?

It’s often quite difficult to pinpoint why we are so scared. We look at the task we need to perform and cannot work out why we are so fearful. Something as very basic as walking into a shop to try and get directions to somewhere makes us break out into a sweat.
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This Is Not Being Lost This Is Exploring

Aug 9

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Exploring Daily Quote: “Do not go where the path may lead; go where there is no path and leave a trail.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

Most of us spend our lives looking for our purpose. We assemble some goals and hope they will work for us. We scratch at the itch of unfulfilled lives and wonder why it’s not helping. Finally we give up and just drift through life. Maybe something will cross our paths and make sense to us.

That’s like saying that you don’t know what you like but when you see it then you will know it. Really? What happens if you never see it? Then you’ve waited all your life.
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Chanakya’s Quotes – Worth Reading A Million Times…

Aug 8

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chanakya“A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and Honest people are victimized first.”

“Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous.”

“The biggest guru-mantra is: Never share your secrets with anybody. ! It will destroy you.”

“There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no Friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.”
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See An Opportunity In Everything

Aug 7

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www.selfalot.comDaily Quote: “When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.” Helen Keller

When life throws you a nasty surprise what is your first reaction? Do you whine and cry that you always get the bad deals or do you wonder what opportunity this could be for you to take up?

What is the difference here? You still get the nasty surprise, but the approach to handling the nasty surprise is different. Which one would be the easier to handle?
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Keep Putting That Toe In The Water

Aug 6

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p1030832Daily Quote: “If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.” William Arthur Ward

Many people give up on their dreams because the first few attempts got them nowhere near where they had hoped they would get to. But if you keep on trying the water by dipping your toe in, eventually you will find the right spot or the right temperature or even the right time for your swim.

Lots of small tries, many different approaches and a great number of tiny changes in direction can lead you where you want to be. It might not end up being the route you thought it would be. You might not even quite get the final destination that you had in mind. It could end up being better!

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Stick Your Toe Into The Water

Aug 5

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photo Daily Quote: “You cannot discover new oceans until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.”

When you are afraid to take outright action because your goal seems so unachievable it might be an idea just to stick your toe into the water. First the toe, then perhaps the whole foot, maybe add your other foot, then to your knees and so on until you are paddling around.

Just by taking that first tiny, hesitant step you create a small amount of momentum that could carry you forward. You just started, you leant into it. You made a first tiny move. You find out what it feels like and you never know you might end up finding it not so difficult.
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Take Action And Start Making Things Happen

Aug 2

Posted by Robin Bal in Personal Development | 5 Comments

b12nature_animals_insects030Daily Quote - “Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.” Jack Canfield.

There are many people who have wondered why the Law of Attraction isn’t working for them. Here they are with their goals all nicely worked out, their vision board beautifully made up with amazing pictures, poetry, even some multimedia bits. Yet nothing has come about.

One can plan, one can write strategies and one can draw the best charts that anybody has seen before. But if you do not take any action towards your goals you will not reach them.
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