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How to Be Unstoppable

In our last +1, we talked about you feasting on your Hero Bars—using memories of your past success as fuel to walk through fear doors today. (You grab three for Today?) All of those Cookies and Hero Bars remind me of an idea from former Navy SEAL Alden Mills’ great book Be Unstoppable. I read it year...

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Your Fuel for Fear Doors

Not too long ago, we talked about David Goggins and his Cookie Jars. Facing a tough challenge? He tells us to reach into the Cookie Jar of past success and take a big bite out of the fact that you KNOW you can crush it. Use that memory of a past success as fuel to power you through your current challenge...

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Need to Walk Through One Today?

In our last couple +1s, we’ve been having a sobering and (hopefully) empowering time talking about and then walking through some Fear Doors. Today I want to share another personal story about a time I walked through a Fear Door. Get this. It was just the other day. And it’s been kinda surreal to expe...

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The Really Scary Thing About Them

In our last +1, we talked about Fear Doors. I shared a couple of painful stories in which I somehow mustered the courage to act in spite of my (enormous) fear and… Voila! My life changed. Of course, the endings aren’t always sunshine and roses when we choose to step forward into growth rather than ba...

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Walked Through Any Lately?

Revisiting our Conquering Fear discussion, Today I’d like to talk about something I’m calling “Fear Doors.” I want to talk about the fact that (at least some of) your greatest (!) achievements—the stuff that has made you most proud and most positively impacted your life—came right on the othe...

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Dissolving into Joy as You Make the Leap

In our last +1, we talked about the 11 things you’d do if you had zero fear. (How’d that go for you? :) Today I’d like to bring my old coach Steve Chandler in to the discussion so he can share his wisdom on the subject. In Reinventing Yourself, he encourages us to do that “If I had no fear” exe...

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I Would Do THIS!

In our last +1, we talked about driving with your brakes on. We took a nice, deep breath and then we took our foot off the fear-of-failure brakes. Today I’d like to talk a little more about what you would do if you had no fear. Obviously, fear can be a useful emotion. Except when it isn’t. So… If y...

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ACT on How to Make the Switch

Russ Harris is one of the world’s leading practitioners of “Acceptance and Commitment Therapy” (“ACT” for short)—which is basically a cool hybrid of cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness training. Russ has written a couple of great books we’ve featured: The Happiness Trap and The Con...

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How to Move from Fear to Excitement

Quick pop quiz: Are you afraid of something these days? Pause for a moment and identify one thing that’s kinda (or really) stressing you out. Might be work, relationships, finances. Whatever. Got it? All right. Now, I can *guarantee* you that any fear you may have is tied to a NEGATIVE EXPECTATION. You...

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Name It to Tame It Harry Potter Style

In our last +1, we had fun with Harry Potter getting our “RIDDIKULUS!” on to deal with our shape-shifting fears that show up in the form of boggarts. Continuing our wizard theme, let’s look at another way J.K. Rowling tells us to deal with our fear. Remember how everyone refers to Voldemort as “Y...

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Of Its Favorite Food

In The 10X Rule, Grant Cardone tells us that we need to starve fear of its favorite food. Pop quiz! Do you know what fear’s favorite food is? Think about it for a moment. What’s your guess? … Answer: TIME. Fear FEASTS on time. Afraid to do something? Just give it some more time and your fear will g...

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