Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life: How to Unlock Your Full Potential for Success and Achievement

NEUTRALIZING YOUR FEARS
The antidotes to fear and ignorance are 
desire
and
knowledge
. The
only real limitation on what you can accomplish is the level of in-
tensity of your desire. If you really want something badly enough,
there are almost no limits on what you can achieve. And the more
you learn about any subject, the greater will be your desire to ac-
complish something in that area. As your knowledge grows, you
become more confident in taking the necessary steps to make your
goals a reality.
As you 
increase
your levels of desire and knowledge, you 
decrease
the self-limiting effects of fear and ignorance, and their compan-
ions, learned helplessness and the comfort zone.
With desire and knowledge, you eventually replace fear and ig-
norance with 
courage
and
confidence
. The more you learn about any-
thing that is important to you, the more courage you will have to
attempt to achieve it, and the more confident you will be that you
can eventually succeed. As Henry Ford once said, “If you believe
you can do a thing, or you believe you cannot, in either case, you are
probably right.”