Getting What You Want in Life
(Part 4)
By Kevin Hogan
Step 1: What Do You Not Want Any More...What Do You Want to Change?
Step 2: Why?
Step 3: Make a REAL Road Map
Now comes the hard part....
Step 4: Recognize Fear and Walk through the Fire
From time to time, you may lose your enthusiasm. You might start feeling resistant to making the positive changes. You might even make excuses for why you don’t really need to make these changes at this point in your life.
Unmotivated?
I doubt it.
If you wanted to change something bad and pursue something exciting, cool, fascinating...then motivation wouldn't just vanish.
No.
All of this new stuff is rooted in fear.
How to Recognize Fear
Sometimes this fear manifests itself in unproductive ways, such as procrastination. You find that you’re not following your map or making any progress towards your goals. If you "can’t get motivated," fear is probably at the root of your procrastination.
In most cases where you find fear is causing inaction, the “cure” is taking action.
It sounds circular, doesn’t it? Fear is causing inaction, but the solution is to take action. How can that be?
You see, usually you feel so overwhelmed that you don’t even know where to start. But if you can just get started somewhere – anywhere – you’ll find that your fears start to melt away. Soon you’ll be able to take more focused, productive action.
That means that in order to use action to cure fear, you need to let go of one major fear: specifically, the fear of taking the wrong action.
Once you do that – once you give yourself permission to move forward even if things don't seem quite right – you’ll be able to progress faster on your goals and make those positive changes.
Sometimes fear manifests itself as imagined productivity. For example, you may be taking a lot of actions but going absolutely nowhere.
This happens to people who get tired.
They do so many things that are not useful, that when it comes time to do something that matters they are "tired out".
Perhaps you find yourself doing a lot of “busy work” that eats up all your time, but shows little tangible results or measurable progress. Yet you felt busy, so you felt like you were making progress.
For example, let’s suppose you wanted to make a change in your life by quitting your job and becoming a successful self-employed business person. And further, let’s suppose you were starting up an online business. I love working online because it only requires effort and a modest amount of intelligence.
If you're new to online business, you'll need _______ 
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Kevin Hogan
Network 3000 Publishing
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Eden Prairie, MN 55346
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