Sean: How do I look at fear in the face and turn it into fuel and overcome?

Steve: Well, my answer to that is they're already doing it anyway. By them not being happy. They're already in fear. When you're not happy when you're unfulfilled.

Here's how I look at it. Here is where we think we should be in life. Like we all have this vision of whatever it would be. Let's say it's status. It's a job. It's a relationship. It's a where you live, it's money. It's relationship with God, whatever we have this vision about where we think we - I should be there, like you see someone that "I could do that job, or I should have that house" or whatever it might be like, we have this vision about what could be possible, right.

And then we know everything's possible in life, but then we're here. Like we're our reality is in the present every day I wake up, I have to pay these bills, I have a wife I don't love, my kids don't like me, whatever it might be. We're we're here and in between the space of where we envision our life to be. And here all in between that is that the Delta and that's where stress and fear live. What we have to realize is we have the ability to rise the tide. So as we squeeze fare out and turn it into fuel that on a basis of doing that, that you can create and make change.

If you've not used to doing that, then I would say, stop in the mirror right now and realize. Okay. I am already breaking through fear. Because what's happening is each day that I get up and I'm not happy, that is a form of fear, unhappiness and unfulfillment is a version of fear. And you're allowing that fear to now be converted into what you do and go out into a job in which you don't like, go out into an industry and that you don't like, go back and go back into a marriage that you're not happy in and not choose to do something about it.

What happens is when you choose to take action, fear, diminishes really quickly. Because once you get into action, as Napoleon Hill says in the book, "The thinking grow rich" is a book that Napoleon Hill in the United States wrote in the thirties, 1930s. And it's probably the greatest manual for the foundation of all self-development programs and positive thinking programs and business plans and life plans that have come after that.

But you know, one of his simple quotes is, you know, success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal. And Paulo Coelho and the alchemist's book says once your mind is made up the universe conspires toward your success, so if you have a blueprint and a plan and you have a vision and you start taking some actions, boom, by getting into action, it really helps reduce the fear.

So it's a matter of taking that vision of where we thought we should be. Mapping it out, writing out a plan, writing out a strategy, what would it look like? And knowing that what you can do in three years is pretty amazing. And it's always more than we think we can do. And that we always overestimate what we can do in a year, but start little. Start with, "Hey, I want to start getting out of my job, then start putting out resumes."

And then from there, that action starts helping you start chipping away at fear and eventually a dam breaks and it just floods it down and it will turn into a reservoir of power for a short amount of time. And then it turns into fear again. So it's like these, these chunks that you just have to go, Oh, that's part of the process.

Like I need that. Like, what I have realized is I have to have the fear to make it to the next place and I can't say that I enjoy fear, but I can tell you that I have made friends with fear.

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