The difference between fear and doubt.

 

Contrary to popular thought, fear isn’t really what stops us from doing things we want to do. Fear is natural, a safety mechanism in nature that lets you know when to heighten your guard, pay closer attention, be aware. Give fear breath and it’s actually excitement – it’s healthy, even intoxicating. Fear releases adrenaline, which is a high energy compound, that creates instant action and motion. In short – fear has energy. It just needs to be channeled, directed.

No – fear is not what stops us. Fear gets us into motion.

What stops us is doubt. Doubt is the wet blanket over everything. The fog. Doubt is the bogeyman, the depression, the grayness, the emptiness between. Doubt is what actually stops you.

Deal with your DOUBT and you’ve got the battle won.

Look around you, at the people who are creating the lives they want. Know that they have endless fears to face down and move through. The bigger they become, the bigger the fear they have to move through. I often describe fear as the picket fence around the edge of our comfort zone…to grow and learn, we naturally have to move through fear. As a person stretches into new territory, there is always fear to some degree.

The difference is that they have handled their doubt.

Even the words look and feel different, don’t they? Fear has definite edge, it knows its boundaries. Doubt is a funny, strange amorphous word that leaks out energy and casts a pall on everything. It sneaks out and shows up when you least expect it, insinuating itself into chinks and spaces, so that all of a sudden you’re stopped and you don’t even really know why – except that you’ve become filled with the fog of doubt. It wraps around you, holds you in, saps your energy and dampens everything down so slowly that often you don’t even notice until it’s everywhere.

Fear is concentrated, and concentrating. There’s a specific, definitive object to be addressed.

Doubt is undefined, and it grows unseen and rapidly, like a cancer.

You can be a highly successful person, and still all of a sudden find yourself  in the fog of doubt…the higher you reach, the more likely you are to hit new doubts…it’s just a natural progression. Reach, doubt, move through, achieve, reach again. Doubt is often a part of the path, for anyone.

Make no mistake – doubt is what stops you. And doubt is a 100% self-created state. Nothing outside of you is creating your doubt. You are creating your own doubt through what you decide about yourself because of events that happen in your life.

Don’t let this get you down!! There is immense power in this understand. Being the one who created the doubt means that you can be the one who changes it – and you don’t even have to do it alone. There are amazing, specific, proven techniques that will lead you to handle your doubt and get back on track.

 

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