The Second Book The 60th Chapter - When Was The Last Time You Were Scared

Sept 19/17

When was the last time you pushed your personal development zone and you scared yourself and stepped out of your normal comfort zone?  After you scared yourself did you notice a sense of satisfaction for your push into new territory?  After that rush feeling of accomplishment was over did you notice a feeling of growth?  How much time did you spend realizing what you just achieved?

When this would happen with me in my past, I would focus on that rush feeling of accomplishment, in a sense acting like an adrenaline junkie.  While this did provide value to me, it was never lasting and that rush feeling was fleeting.  When that would happen I was in search of my next big quest to scare myself again by taking the risk of doing something new.

I knew I needed to explore to grow but I was missing the substance of the full experience.  By feeling that full experience it allowed me to have long term sustainable satisfaction and happiness on my accomplishments.

I would like to share a story that happened to me today.  As some of you know I have a passion to create value in others through the use of new concepts of old ideas.  I know that to fully leverage my creative value that I need to capitalize on all venues of social media.  I have a passion to be a speaker and to be able to speak to large audiences throughout the world.  I also know large scale public speaking is something that is difficult.

It is difficult for me because my anxiety comes up in me and causes me to lock out my thoughts.  Usually my thoughts flow easy to me and I add value to conversations I have but with my heighten anxiety this sometimes does not flow.  All my well thought out ideas are replaced with no sound to my voice combined with a sense of panic.  As I know this is a weakness, I know I need to practice, however as this doesn't come easy I have tried to avoid any kind of live speaking and the use of notes.

So over the last few days as I know I would have to do my second live broadcast and integrate the improvement from feedback on my first broadcast.  Finally after two days, I decided this morning of a plan and a action item for me to complete.  The plan was to send out the message that I was going to start a live broadcast this Sunday.  Once that message was complete, I then would upload that live video to my YouTube account.  All of which I completed in approximately two hours.

I was terrified yet I pushed forward and immediately after, a sense of the feeling of accomplishment and rush was felt.  This time I didn't stop myself at the rush stage but allowed myself to feel the sense of accomplishment where true happiness was growing.  Using this example and by keeping this process simple I know I have to continue to repeat as this will build a life of success.

When are you going to push yourself to grow from your fear?