COURAGE - WHAT IT IS AND WHY IT’S IMPORTANT

This episode helps us all to acknowledge fear and then push past it to achieve our goals. Neil puts fear into perspective and explains how we all have the courage to move onwards and upwards when we take action.

 

 KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Everyone can face fear, especially when tackling something new or more complex.
• Overcoming the fear and moving forward will confirm the benefits of doing something new and show that the fear was unfounded.
• Fear is often experienced when you;

Break new ground

Launch a new product

Adopt a new approach

Step up and take action

Lay yourself open to the judgement of other people

Do anything that moves you from your current state to a higher state...

 

Fear and Courage

• Fear is what malevolently stands between you and I and what we want.
• Courage is not the absence of fear - Courage is the ability to act, even in the face of fear.
• A strong will or sufficient motivation can provoke you to take action despite your fear.
• Facing down your fear or – better still – harnessing it to your service is what courage is all about.
• Dealing with the dread and liberating yourself from fear requires courage. Taking the action that the fear is trying to divert you from is courage.

 

So, what are you waiting for?!

• Your greatest fear shouldn’t be writing that book, starting that business or asking for that date. No! Your greatest fear should be that the clock is ticking and that your life is shortening at an alarming rate.

 

• When your time approaches, you should be able to look back on your life and marvel at how much you got done, in spite of all the adversity and fear.

 

• The only person whose consent you need is yourself: give yourself permission.

 

• Accountability
• Tell someone what you are going to do – preferably someone who will consistently hold you to account if you don’t take action.

 

• Consider posting your intentions into your social media groups or timelines, publicly commit to delivering the book/product or opening the business on a certain date: then make sure you live up to it and deliver.

 

• Hire a coach – preferably a really expensive coach – to hold you accountable. Your coach’s fees should hurt a little – or a lot - enough that you’re going to take action or else have to resign yourself to just throwing that money away.

 

• Whatever it takes – commit yourself, preferably publicly, financially and irrevocably to action.

 

• Whether it’s the Pull of your mission or the Push away from a significant loss, find out what gets you moving.

 

• Sooner or later, someone will take that action: shouldn’t that someone be you?

 

• Fear can live with everything apart from consistent action in the direction of your goals and dreams. Fear is checking if you’re serious and eliminating your competition, handle the fear and you handle life.

 

 

BEST MOMENTS

 

‘Fear imprisons us and then waits for us to die’

 

‘So, what are you waiting for?’

 

‘The only thing stopping you is you’

 

 ‘Maybe we should put our own fears into some kind of perspective’

 

 ‘The secret is to acknowledge the fear, thank it for offering its opinion, then tell it to take a hike as you march towards your fate’

 

‘Don’t wait until your work is perfect – it’ll never be perfect. Perfection is sterile and produces nothing until it begins to decay’

 

VALUABLE RESOURCES

Neil Cowmeadow - Weird Things Guitarists Do

www.Neilcowmeadow.com

  

ABOUT THE HOST

Neil Cowmeadow is a maverick peripatetic guitar teacher from Telford with over 19 years’ experience in the business of helping people. Learn how to start, grow and love your business with Neil’s invaluable advice and tips without the buzzwords and BS!

 

 

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