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Dissecting The Fear of Success - Part 2
“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.” Theodore Roosevelt.
Last week we took apart the fear of success. We looked at the joy of success, and explored what you could be afraid of and would prefer to avoid if you were to be successful. If you succeed at one thing, you may fail at something else. So in a sense, fear of success is boiled down to fear of failure as well.
We created a diagram (see last week’s blog) in which we had you write down some of the things that you fear about success, for example, sustaining a high level of demand and responsibility or having no free time.
It is important to dissect your fear of success, understand your fear of failure and frame-shift into empowering thoughts. Otherwise, the limiting beliefs and fears hold you back or sabotage your full greatness and potential. You want to enjoy the one life you have to the fullest degree with no regret.
Frame-shifting replaces a fear or disempowering belief with one that leaves you empowered.
For example, in my career, I was concerned that if I were to be too successful, it would demand that I would have to travel a lot. While I like to travel, I was afraid that too much travel would get in the way of my commitment to being around for my children and I would fail as a father. A frame-shift gave me a new way to look at this. By being more successful and creating even more demand for my services, I could choose when to travel and when to collaborate on a project with a team member who would take the trip on my behalf. With that freedom of thought came great freedom to be more effective in my work, in my leadership development and in a balanced, happy life.
I will be going over this frame-shifting exercise more thoroughly in our tele-seminar tomorrow, March 31, at noon eastern. Dial 712-432-3066 and enter the code 410-106#. We take your limiting beliefs and fears and do some frame-shifting to provide you with new levels of freedom and empowerment for your balanced success.
Meanwhile, I always like to ask, how about you? What is the limiting belief that you’re prepared to frame-shift and replace with an empowering possibility?
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By Jonathan Flaks“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.” Theodore Roosevelt.
Last week we took apart the fear of success. We looked at the joy of success, and explored what you could be afraid of and would prefer to avoid if you were to be successful. If you succeed at one thing, you may fail at something else. So in a sense, fear of success is boiled down to fear of failure as well.
We created a diagram (see last week’s blog) in which we had you write down some of the things that you fear about success, for example, sustaining a high level of demand and responsibility or having no free time.
It is important to dissect your fear of success, understand your fear of failure and frame-shift into empowering thoughts. Otherwise, the limiting beliefs and fears hold you back or sabotage your full greatness and potential. You want to enjoy the one life you have to the fullest degree with no regret.
Frame-shifting replaces a fear or disempowering belief with one that leaves you empowered.
For example, in my career, I was concerned that if I were to be too successful, it would demand that I would have to travel a lot. While I like to travel, I was afraid that too much travel would get in the way of my commitment to being around for my children and I would fail as a father. A frame-shift gave me a new way to look at this. By being more successful and creating even more demand for my services, I could choose when to travel and when to collaborate on a project with a team member who would take the trip on my behalf. With that freedom of thought came great freedom to be more effective in my work, in my leadership development and in a balanced, happy life.
I will be going over this frame-shifting exercise more thoroughly in our tele-seminar tomorrow, March 31, at noon eastern. Dial 712-432-3066 and enter the code 410-106#. We take your limiting beliefs and fears and do some frame-shifting to provide you with new levels of freedom and empowerment for your balanced success.
Meanwhile, I always like to ask, how about you? What is the limiting belief that you’re prepared to frame-shift and replace with an empowering possibility?