Do you ever feel like your life is just an unbroken string of disasters; of things falling apart, things not working out, and challenges on top of challenges? You are not alone. Most of us suffer similarly, to one degree or another.

In this podcast, we'll talk about how disasters bring opportunities, often where you least expect them. Life is meant to be good, and it is, as soon as we learn to tell the endings from the beginnings.

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Hello, my friends. Shall we talk about how messed up humans are, including you? Humans are just weird. We have all these weird tricks that our minds play on us, and not one single one of us is ever immune to this kind of stuff. We have little mental shortcuts we take. We have funny little fallacies that we do, and I'm gonna talk to you about one of them today because I think it will be helpful.

I've had conversations with people, in the last week, who are all facing some version of this topic, and so I'm gonna give you a couple of examples and then tell you what it is.

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Happy Independence Day!

I can remember being asked, "who are your heroes?" That question always produces some pretty interesting answers and some pretty varied ones.. You'll get all kinds of stuff. You'll get sports heroes. You'll get military heroes. You'll get, characters from mythology. You'll get scriptural heroes. You'll get heroes from history, all kinds of heroes. And you can ask what the qualities are and you'll get all kinds of answers. Some heroes are worth the title; some, not so much. I

So who are the real heroes? In a world gone insane, I can think of nothing more heroic than a man who is willing to say, "okay, I'm in. I'll do it. I'll marry someone. I'll start a family. I'll miss sleep. I'll try to be patient. I'll teach my children. I'll honor my wife. I'll provide for them all, protect them all, watch them grow, help them through heartaches and challenges. I'll be disrespected. I'll be worshiped. I'll be tired. I'll be elated. I will suffer. I will pray, and I'll work myself to the bone for 50 or 60 years. I accept the responsibility to fill the world with love, beginning here and now." 

What could possibly be more heroic than that? 


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Fear of success is not actually a real thing.  

Now I know somebody's going to argue with me: "no, I've had fear of success." Well, what you've actually had is fear of failure, but it goes something like this. A lot of times when somebody says they have fear of success, what they have is fear of being found out. So they say, "if I give a speech at this convention, or I do this presentation, or I sell this thing, or if I do this podcast, what if somebody finds out I was actually wrong about a little bit of that? What if I get a fact wrong, or what if it turns out that they know more about it than I do, and then they tell everybody about it and then everybody thinks I'm an idiot?"  

Fearing success is not helpful to you. Believing things that are not true about yourself is not helpful to you. 

Now, sometimes you need some help to find and fix these harmful beliefs or patterns. That's what I do for a living. Maybe you and I should talk sometime. Go to my website at https://natewalkercoaching.com, click on the contact link, and tell me how I can help you. We'll have a conversation, and I don't charge for those. I talk to people all day long. I know how to help you figure out what those things are that are really stopping you, and it's not really fear of success. 

Don't let others' judgment of you, or your fear about your own lack of ability or lack of preparation, or your fear of the unknown, stop you. They will if you allow it. But if you learn how to get past it, your life will never, ever, be the same. As George Eliot so wisely put it: "It's never too late to be who you might have been."  

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When I was a little kid, my mom would sometimes have the Julia Child cooking show playing on TV. My mom says that little four year old me would look at those knives and dreamily sigh, "Why can't we have knives like that?" For some reason I was absolutely fascinated with her kitchen knives. I thought they were the coolest thing on earth.  

Fast forward, and I have become, quite by accident, somewhat of a knife collector.

Somebody asked me once, "what's the best overall survival knife?" Well, I wrote a five page document, ranking several knives in order, and talking about why you would choose one over the other, and what some suitable alternatives would be for the price.

The reason that was five pages long, the reason I have more than one knife, the reason a person might want more than one car, is all comparison. There's something better about each one. There's something that's a drawback about each one.

Inherent in every design in knives or in people, are strengths and weaknesses. 

We are prone to compare ourselves to others all the time. This comparison game, good or bad, is something that's wired into us.


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From this episode: 

"… a couple of the daughters were in high school and they were really, really upset at the prospect of this move. After they moved, they thought it was the end of the world. In conversation with them, I would hear them talk about what they left behind. Leaving the friends, leaving what they thought the future would hold. They worried that their future could not possibly be as good as their past, and that whatever future there was would be nothing like what they had imagined or hoped it would be. And what about all the memories that they would leave behind? 

"My own daughter, in a conversation with me a few months ago, and expecting her second child, expressed some anxiety about how she would feel about the new baby. How would she feel when he was born? What if she didn't love him as much as the first one? What if there wasn't enough love to go around? What if her future just held more labor and less love? Now, most parents have similar questions with their second child, but of course this was her first second child."  

Change is always easier, and the future always brighter, when we understand how to love. 

When people lack the words for something, it’s often unimaginable to them. Without words, some things just don’t exist. 

We are often unaware of things we can’t describe, or hyperaware, and overly influenced, by those we use all too often—especially if they are negative. Our language dramatically influences our life experiences.

Words have power.

What you say or describe will influence your future: your physical, spiritual, intellectual, social, and emotional health.

In the music of your soul, do you choose consonance or dissonance? I have spent a lifetime creating or arranging music. That’s a language in which I am quite fluent. Similarly, I can help you rearrange the music of your mind. Let me know how and when I can help you realize the symphony in your soul.

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This is one of the most useful exercises I can recommend, and one that has produced some remarkable breakthroughs for clients and friends. Expanding your view of the world is remarkable liberating, and can reduce anxiety, open your mind to new ideas, help you be more creative, and enhance your employment opportunities.

As promised in this episode, here's a link to a handful of photos I've taken. https://500px.com/p/natewalker

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 In a conversation a few days ago, I said something about: in the world of metaphysical thinking, it’s postulated that there is only one true emotion. That emotion is love. Everything else is a derivative of fear. The friend to whom I was speaking said, “Would you do a podcast about that?”

In this episode, we explore a few definitions of love, including Eros, Philia, and Agape.

We also talk about fear, love's great counterfeit, and how to recognize and replace it with love. The happiest people live there.

You'll find the article, 3 Signs of Fear Addiction, at  https://libertycounsellingluxembourg.com/3-signs-of-fear-addiction/

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