Saturday, April 19, 2008

Feel Your Fear and Do It Anyway!

Feel Your Fear and Do It Anyway!
How to Create Exciting Breakthroughs in your Work and your
Life:

"How do you know if you can't do it, unless you try?" This
is what Pablo, our adventure guide on a recent trip to
Mexico said to me, as he looked me straight in the eyes. I
was poised to repel down 40 feet in the air into a Mayan
sink hole that was 39 feet deep. I was all harnessed up in
my gear and my husband and two kids were already swimming
in the water with the rest of our group of 8. All that was
left was Susan from Texas, me, and our guide, Pablo. Susan
decided she couldn't do it and left me facing Pablo. He
repeated, "How do you know you can't do it, unless you try?"

This is actually an excellent question! My palms were
sweating and waves of anxiety went through me. I decided to
feel my fear and do it anyway! Pablo calmly encouraged me,
"You can do it, chica!" I got into place and scaled the
stone wall down into the cave, all the while
white-knuckling it, as I lowered my rope slowly but surely.
My confidence began to override my fear as I came closer
and closer to achieving my goal. I did it!

Soon I was swimming in this ancient and sacred water hole.
There is something quite marvelous, exhilarating and
empowering, to dare yourself to do what scares your socks
off! I'm so glad that I felt my fear and did it anyway!
What scares you? Where could you take a big step forward in
your business and/or your personal life? Perhaps you could:

Quit talking about a good idea and actually take massive
action on that idea! Take on more opportunities to be more
visible in the marketplace Go ahead and enroll in a
high-end coaching program for 1st class mentoring from an
expert. Perhaps it's your time to do more public speaking?

My coaching challenge to you this week is to choose
something BIG that you'd like to do, be or have in your
business or in your personal life and make a commitment to
do it. Be smart and line up support. Without wise Pablo on
my side, I probably wouldn't have dared to go beyond my
comfort zone. So go for it! I encourage you to take on a
challenging goal. Carpe Diem!


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