1.) Ask yourself, “What’s the worst that could happen?” Too often, we place

excess importance on potential problems. We all have a certain amount of

energy so let’s apply it to creating extraordinary relationships, advancing

our careers and meeting our goals INSTEAD of wasting that energy worrying.

Take action on what you have control over and minimize risks for what you

don’t. Then invest your energy wisely.

2.) In doing something for the first time, imagine that you have already

done it in the past. Close your eyes, then vividly imagine you succeeding

wildly at what you are really going to do for the first time. The mind does

NOT know the difference between something VIVIDLY imagined and something

real. Make it vivid by involving all 5 senses.

3.) Find someone who is already confident in that area and copy them.

Model as many of their behaviors, attitudes, values, and beliefs for the

context you want to be confident in as you can. How can you do this? Talk

with them if you have access to them. If you don’t have access to them, get

as much exposure to them as you can. This could be talking to people who

know the person and/or buying their products if they have some.

4.) Use the “as-if” frame. I literally love this frame of mind. If you

were confident, how would you be acting? How would you be moving? How

would you be speaking? What would you be thinking? What would you tell

yourself inside? By asking yourself these questions, you are literally

forced to answer them by going into a confident state. You will then be

acting “as-if” you are confident. Now just forget you are acting long

enough and pretty soon you’ll develop it into a habit.

5.) Go into the future and ask if what you’re faced with is such a big

deal. This might be a bit morbid and yet this works tremendously well.

Imagine yourself on your deathbed looking back over your life. You are

surrounded by your friends and family. You’re reviewing your life. Is what

you’re faced with now even going to pop up? That’s highly unlikely.

Keeping things in proper perspective really diminishes fear.

6.) Remember that you lose out on 100% of the opportunities that you never

go for. To get what you want, ask for it. I fully believe that if I ask

enough people for whatever I want, I can get it. This is not necessarily

true and yet it’s a useful belief. As you think about your goals and what

you are striving for, how effective would it be for you to believe that all

the people out there want to help you if you only ask? Whether that is true

or not in the “real world” does not matter. If you find that belief

empowering, I invite you to adopt it as your own.

7.) Disarm the nagging, negative internal voice. That negative internal

voice can keep anyone stopped. To disarm the internal voice, imagine a

volume control and lower the volume. Or how about changing the internal

voice to Mickey Mouse? Do you think you could take Mickey Mouse seriously

if he were criticizing you? Change the voice to a clown voice. The point

is to disarm the voice by altering the way it nags at you. If I hear my own

voice nagging me, it stops me. If I hear a clown voice, I laugh and

continue onward.

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