Fight the fear
INTRODUCTION
Not all fear leaves you sweating, fearing for your life or screaming and running for the hills. However, when it comes to success, ‘fear’ is a word
I hear many times:
▶ ‘I can’t turn this down. I’m too scared of what the consequences
might be.’
▶ ‘I’m frightened of what they might say.’
▶ ‘I couldn’t let anyone find that out, that’s just too scary!’
▶ ‘I can’t do that!’
Fear lurks behind so many elements of our lives, and to be successful
you need to find ways to battle it. You must find where it hides and eradicate it. As a child, you had someone there to hold your hand and coax you for- ward and keep the momentum going, to guide you into action and help you find a way forward. However, as an adult it’s all too easy to stagnate,
to stall and allow life to slow down. You ‘accept’ where you find yourself
and enable fear to take over.
Before I wrote this book, I hadn’t thought about how badly fear can attack success. I would have thought that most people around me are not that frightened; and yet, as I think back over the years of coaching clients and supporting people to get the results they want in their personal and professional lives, I have analysed these sessions and realised that, in actual fact, fear had a massive impact on so many people’s results.
So, I reasoned, wouldn’t it be great if someone would be so kind as to put that information into a no-nonsense, easy-to-read book (because, let’s be honest, we are all mega busy) that would sink into your brain faster than red wine into a carpet, and enable your subconscious to pick up on these brilliant ideas to help you override those fears that are secretly sabotaging your success.