Mental Strength Tip #50 – Facing Fear and Personal Success
Welcome back to another Mental Strength Tip!
Achieving personal success and reaching personal goals begins with a mental strength mindset of empowering beliefs. Reaching your peak potential starts in your mind…and finishes with taking inspired and massive action.
This is one in a series of virtual life coaching tips to help start your week of strong so that you can reach your personal goals and personal success.
I take one subject and run though a brief overview of it, then ask some very direct questions. The intention of this virtual ‘life coaching’ session is for you to write the questions in your success journal and then reflect on them and write your answers and thoughts in your journal.
These series of posts are for YOU! If I’m not able to coach you personally one-on-one over the phone or in The 2nd Passage, I want you to at least get the benefit of a “virtual” mental strength coaching session.
Enjoy!
Objective of this Mental Strength Tip:
To help you harness the power of fear and use it as a mental strength tool while never allowing it to determine your thought process.
“The dangers of life are infinite, and among them is safety.” — Goethe
Let’s Get Started:
This virtual life coaching session is to help you realize that the average personal avoids fear, while the mentally strong high achiever may not go and look for fear, but when it shows up they harness the energy in their fear and transform it to propel them forward. Fear-base consciousness is what keeps people from reaching their peak potential, reaching their personal goals and achieving personal success.
Questions to Uncover Beliefs about Mental Strength Thinking:
- What role do you believe fear plays in personal success, fulfillment and happiness?
- Do you believe it’s possible to transcend non-physical fear?
- What is the best way to overcome fear?
Unsupportive Beliefs about Fear
- Fear is negative.
- Experiencing fear should be avoided.
- Feeling fear is uncomfortable.
Mental Strength Beliefs about Fear
- Fear is a powerful energy and can be harnessed.
- Gear protects me.
- Fear builds my mental strength skills.
Outrageous Questions:
- Do your results indicate you are a fearless or fearful person?
- When was the last time you made a decision that was frightening to you?
- Would the people who really know you say you are more courageous or cautious.
Reflective Questions:
- What roles does fear play in your life?
- Does feeling fear support you or hurt you in achieving your personal success?
- Has fear ever held you back from doing something you wish you would have done?
Mental Strength Coaching:
Fear is the expectancy of pain. Fear comes from thinking of an unfavorable outcome. Keep in mind there is a high level of delusion when it comes to fear. Most people claim they’re operating in an abundant and resourceful state yet their results show a pattern of fearful decision-making.
This virtual mental strength coaching session is to help you understand the power behind fear. That is, to assist you become aware of your fear, not to criticize you or show your short comings, but to help you move to the next level of personal success.
Most people are so close to their own fearful thinking they can’t see it.
A great exercise is to think of others that have achieved what you want and overcame their fear in the process.
Now, compare their thinking to yours and notices how they utilized fear to help them reach their personal goals and personal success and use them as model to emulate.
Final Thought
Successfully coaching around fear usually means cutting through the personal delusion of a person’s limited thinking. Average people almost always rate their thinking higher than it actually is, while the mentally strong high achiever often underestimates themselves.
Your results speak for themselves. When you move to a position of objective reality you can see how fear has continued to hold you back and you can now do something about it.
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear” – Mark Twain
If you’d like to get started on developing a rock solid mindset to conquer fear so that you can hit your peak potential, reach your personal goals and achieve real personal success request your Introductory Consultation today!
OK…now it’s your turn! Let me know how you have conquered fear in our life by sharing your thoughts in the comments below.
