Nothing Scares Me: Charge Forward With Confidence, Conquer Resistance, and Break Through Your Limitations

The Forces Holding You Back

Imagine for a moment there is something you want so badly that it hurts to go without it. Maybe you’ve tried to grab that dream as it dangles in front of you, but it keeps escaping your grasp.

When people say take direct action and just do it, you find yourself too paralyzed to do anything. Instead, you find yourself reaching for a remote control, or killing time by immersing yourself in things that just entertain you.

As a result, you’ve settled for a life of good enough, and opted to live in fear

The fear of not doing what you want to do, fear of living without, and the fear of growing old and never taking a chance on your future.

Now, imagine an invisible force holding you back from having this one thing. It is so powerful that it won't let you go no matter how hard you try to break free.

That force is fear.

It is powerful, and for most people, it is the single largest cause of self-defeat.

But, unlike most obstacles that are easy to identify, what keeps you scared is more difficult to see. We are blinded by the forces in our lives that trap us because we assume life is supposed to be this way.

When something is risky, we make excuses for why we shouldn’t do it. Then, when a good opportunity presents itself, we say, maybe next time. But when the next time arrives, there is always another excuse.

Many of us have trained ourselves to avoid the scary stuff in life, and instead, we settle for what is easy and less risky. The fear of scarcity has taken over the beauty of abundance. The result is, that you create a life where you are clinging to the things that don’t matter when you should be letting go.

Why Do We Trap Ourselves?

We hold ourselves back for many reasons: fear of failure, not being able to measure up, or trying to avoid looking stupid. So instead of doing something about it, we do nothing at all, and life passes us by. Then, one day, you turn 50 years old. You realize you don’t have much time left and you’re stuck in a job, a relationship, or a situation that would have been different if you had confronted and acted on the fears that were shaping your life.

Well…

I have good news and bad news. The good news is, it’s never too late to start doing the work you’ve always wanted to do. The bad news is, those moments you missed can never be reclaimed. But don’t worry about that now. We have this day and the rest of our lives, however long that may be, to make a difference, change our behavior, take intentional action, and do the things we’ve always dreamed of.

From now on, you have two choices: you can either take intentional action, or do nothing at all. One path can bring you everything you’ve ever wanted. The other will continue to bring you more of what you’ve always had.

You are being held back by something that is not beyond your control. It is the result of years of conditioning and old beliefs that feed into negative thoughts about who you really are. You’ve been lying to yourself about how great you can be.

This doesn’t have to be you anymore. We all have choices we can make in any given moment. When you think you have no choice, you are choosing to believe that and in doing so, you’re limiting your opportunities to taking the scraps left over by everyone else that got there first.

Do you want to spend the rest of your days wondering: “What if I had…?”

This brings us to the all-important question: Is it really life we are afraid of? Or are we just afraid to be ourselves in this life?