Nine Actions – 9 Week Challenge – Week 3
It is week 3 of the Accelerate Your Job Search Results & Create a Life You Love challenge. The challenge is to take action and transform your search and life in nine weeks.
Did you schedule time for something new last week? Did you follow through? Ready to move on to the next action?
Action #3: Face Your Fears
What are your fears? Lower pay, being judged, not being enough, ridicule or <fill in the blank>? Write it down.
FEAR is nothing more than False Evidence Appearing Real.
Fear is often driven by ego. Doing something different feels difficult and therefore your ego says, “Stop! This isn’t safe!”
Be bold. Have courage. Write down your fears. Then write down:
- the worst thing that could happen if your biggest fear occurred.
- the odds of this actually happening.
- what you would do if the worst occurred. How would you handle it?
- what you might gain in the situation.
Now you have a plan if your fear becomes reality. You are prepared to face your fear and to move on. Move on.
Take action. Post a note, share your thoughts and how you implemented the action of the week and your results.
That’s the biggest challenge everyone has. Facing fears is about going to places that you’ve tried to run and hide from ~ sometimes, you’ve run so often and so far you don’t even KNOW what your fears are. Discovering that can make all the difference in the world!
Thank you for posting this. I agree that FEAR is our worst enemy. To combat that I’ve learned to make myself walk through the blocks and DO IT ANYWAY!
I love your advice to write down one’s fears. And then question them. Writing them down tends to take the emotional charge off of them and allows you to see them for what they are: thoughts. Thoughts that scare us. Kind of like scary movies, except not as entertaining.
Tough one! My biggest fear, I think, is taking the big stage. I’ll have to ponder how I can take that one on!