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I talk to lots of people who are feeling afraid right now.

They're afraid of:

• Having enough: enough money, enough love, enough health, enough security and enough freedom.

• Failure -- or being a success.

• Missing out on all the life has to offer.

• Not reaching their potential.

• Rejection.

• Dying – and afraid of living, too.

No matter how confident a person is, everyone experiences fear. You may know consciously that you're experiencing fear, or your actions might be showing you that subconsciously fear is the culprit: procrastination, feeling stuck, overwhelmed or out of control. Perhaps you're feeling envious of others, or becoming a perfectionist suffering every time you make a mistake.

What Story is Scaring You?

Jack Canfield says, "Figure out how you're scaring yourself. Then acknowledge that you are creating your fear and you'll start to triumph over it." Most fear is based on a future event, something that's not even happening right this moment. We picture this future event and frighten ourselves much like going to a horror movie. We imagine all kinds of outcomes that may or may not ever take place.

One way to figure out how you scare yourself is to listen to your self-talk. Take a moment and write the answers to these questions:

I can't be successful because…

I can't have what I want in life because…

I can't be who I'm meant to become because…

I don't deserve to have what I want because…

Learned Fears

We were not born with these fears. Our past experiences and people in our lives have taught us how to be afraid of the future and about our ability to meet it successfully. Sometimes we make generalizations about life because of one bad experience.

Mark Twain said, "The cat, having sat upon a hot stove lid, will not sit upon a hot stove lid again. But he won't sit upon a cold stove lid, either."

Change Your Self-Talk

What if you changed the way you talk to yourself? What if you remembered all the times in your life when you were able to accomplish what you set out to do, big or small? What if you thought back to all the times you were scared and still took action?

Affirmations are a statement of what you want to be true. But sometimes using affirmations feel false, because the affirmations talk about a future truth.

Instead, consider overcoming your limiting beliefs by using what David Gershon and Gail Straub call Growing Edge affirmations, writing and using statements that are true and that still move you towards what you want. Instead of the affirmation, "I am a successful small business owner making a 6-figure income," use a Growing Edge affirmation, such as, "I am capable of finding people who can teach me what I need to know," or "I try a new marketing technique each month and chart the results."

See? These modified affirmations are still positive, still motivational. And once you've mastered that Growing Edge statement, you can modify it again to keep you moving forward. Just keep the affirmation truthful AND challenging. Don't write an affirmation that's too easy or too hard…you will sabotage yourself. Write affirmations that are challenging: they make the hair stand up on the back of your neck, ones that feel like you are reaching and growing, but that also feel completely possible. Remember this mantra: challenging but do-able.

It's okay to feel fear. But don’t let it stop you from moving forward. Tell yourself: I feel scared, but I'm capable of moving one step forward today towards my goals and dreams, because it's more important for me to be happy and successful than it is for me to allow myself to wallow in my fear and tell myself scary stories.

Helen Keller says, "Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure."

We can't know what the outcome of any endeavor will be. But we do know if we allow fear to keep us stuck, the outcome will not be what we want.

You deserve to have everything you want in life, to have a rich, rewarding, meaningful and happy lifetime. Live a Daring Adventure!


 

Marketing to Women   begins June 9

What's more important?

1. Learning about how women buy

2. The product or service you are selling

(Hint: the answer is #1.)

In order to grow your business, you must understand women's lifestyles and what are their specific wants, needs and desires.

You will learn:

• What women buy -- and why

• The number 1 thing you must do in your marketing to women

• The 10 (HUGE) mistakes we make when marketing to women

• The keys to creating a woman-friendly website

• How to market to women without alienating men

• What women want and need from a shopping experience

• How to re-write your marketing copy so that it's inviting to women
   

Click here for more class details about Marketing to Women.

Schedule

This three-week teleclass begins June 9, 2009

• June 9

• June 16

• June 23

All teleclasses are

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM eastern

Classes will be recorded, so if you miss a session, you will be able to download the audio recording of the live class and listen to it at your leisure.

Registration

Registration Fee:  $110

Registration Information:

http://www.passionforbusinesslearning.com/mtw/

Small Business Affirmations - The Movie

Need some motivation and affirmations as a small biz owner?

I created this 2-minute movie to help recharge your spirit, your motivation, and your passion for your business.

(If I missed any important affirmations, just click on the “comments” link below and let me know!)

Small Business Affirmation Movie

 

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• Shining a Light

• Napoleon Hill on Creating Personal Success

Warmly,

Karyn Greenstreet, Self Employment Expert and Small Business Coach

Passion For Business, LLC

"Empowering The Self-employed to Succeed"

www.PassionForBusiness.com

www.PassionForBusinessLearning.com

Motivational Quotes Sure To Move You

Every now and then, bite off more than you can chew.

--Kobi Yamada
 

Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile... initially scared me to death.

--Betty Bender

No one has ever achieved anything from the smallest to the greatest unless the dream was dreamed first.

--Laura Ingalls Wilder

As you begin changing your thinking, start immediately to change your behavior. Begin to act the part of the person you would like to become. Take action on your behavior. Too many people want to feel, then take action. This never works.

--John Maxwell

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving--we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it -- but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.

--Oliver Wendell Holmes

Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.

--Jim Rohn

Few people do business well who do nothing else.

--Lord Chesterfield

Quiet minds can't be perplexed or frightened, but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.

--Robert Louis Stevenson