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

Live A Great Life
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DO THE THING YOU FEAR
A fundamental part of becoming personally powerful requires that
you live consistently with the highest values you know, in every area
of your life. These virtues and values not only are self-reinforcing,
they also are self-rewarding. You get an immediate payoff of inner
satisfaction each time you force yourself to do what you know you
should do, even when you don’t feel like it.
The fear of failure is the greatest single obstacle to success in
adult life. The antidote to the fear of failure is the courage to take
action. Courage is so important as a quality that, like physical fit-
ness, it requires a series of exercises to build it and maintain it.
You best way to develop courage is by facing your fears. Ralph
Waldo Emerson wrote,
“Do the thing you fear, and the death of fear
is certain.”
When you do the thing that you are afraid of, you take control
over both your emotions and your life. You shift your attitude from
neutral or negative to positive and optimistic. “Do the thing you
fear, and the death of fear is certain.”
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