How To Overcome Your Fear Of Success

Ever hear about someone eating something spicy, and oncethey get the spices down, it makes them start sweating?

Well, the other day I was eating lunch with a friend of mine-- Mexican food -- and immediately after gobbling down somehot salsa, sweat starts pouring down my buddy's face, likehe was a fat man in a sauna.

The truth is, sometimes in anticipation of you crossing thefinish line on a project you're working on, your mindbecomes filled with anxiety and fears -- and suddenly YOUstart sweating.

Some of your fears will be real ("What if your projectfails?")... and... some of them will simply be perceived("What will my significant other think of me?" and...ironically, "What if your project fails?").

Steven Pressfield, in his book, The War Of Art, calls thesefears, thoughts and worries, "Resistance".

And "sensing" Resistance, is actually a good thing.

See, when you feel resistance slowly creeping its way intothe back of your mind, it usually means you're about to dosomething with explosive potential -- maybe something thatwill even change your life forever.

Hockey great Wayne Gretsky once said, "You miss 100% of theshots you never take."

So start shooting, and don't be afraid.

My mentor once told me, most of the fears that spend theirtime preoccupying your thoughts (and wasting your time),have all been created, from the ground up, by you -- inside the walls of your own mind.

So don't let all these silly notions and all that othernegative B.S. hold you back.

I know, just as well as you do, that these "bad" thoughtsusually start playing themselves over-and-over again in theback of your mind, like some kind of vicious broken taperecorder... usually at the times you LEAST need to hear them.

Don't worry though.

It's just Resistance telling you you're getting a little outof your comfort zone, and that you're on the right track.

So start taking your shots, and don't be so afraid -- evenif you are sweating like the fat man in the sauna.

Now go sell something,

Craig Garber
http://www.KingOfCopy.com

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