Doubt & Fear

There is nothing more detrimental to success than doubt. What you will have to realize in the process of designing and building your dreams into your reality, is that doubt will destroy your dreams from the inside out. Most people don't care one way or the other whether or not you are successful. The Reality is, when you are successful, the primary person you are trying to impress is yourself. When you are not successful, the primary person you have let down is yourself. Every one else is either a residual benefactor of your success or collateral damage as a result of your failure. 
Doubt is like a slow poison. It creeps in and it settles at the bottom of your gut. You feel it any time you are trying something new. It doesn't scream at you, no.  It whispers in your ear. It impersonates those that love you. It distracts you from the goal and makes you "look down."  Don't look down! When you take your eyes off of your goal and you "look down" you see all those things that stir up  doubt and allow it to fester into its alter ego, "fear."

When we are afraid of becoming stronger, becoming wiser, becoming smarter, becoming richer, becoming healthier, becoming all that we were designed to be all that we desire to be, we are afraid of success. Fear, like its alter ego doubt, is also poison, yet it is quick acting and will kill your dreams way faster than doubt. Fear holds you back from reaching beyond your comfort zone. I like to call the comfort zone the PPZ - Personal Prison Zone. This PPZ prevents you from having that carpe diem spirit of adventure you will require in order to reach the goals you have set. Reaching outside of that PPZ is where growth begins. Outside of the PPZ is where REAL life begins. Outside of the PPZ is where you will find the spouse of your dreams, the home of your dreams, the business or job of your dreams, the LIFE of your dreams!

Look around your PPZ. What is in it? Is the job you desire in the PPZ? Is the spouse you desire inside the PPZ? Is the home you desire inside the PPZ? What about the body, is that the body you want your effervescence to be carried in? If you answered no to any or all of these questions, it is  time for you to detoxify your mind and soul and break out of that PPZ. Expand your boundaries to include areas you have been afraid to venture into. Expand your boundaries to include those things you doubted you could do. Push yourself past the point where the old you says give up. Look beyond that small window you have given yourself out into the world and all it all it has to offer. Do you see your potential out there waving to you? Well don't just sit there on your tool box, get up and get out there. Embrace your potential and transform it into kinetic possibility!

Eliminate the following from your vernacular:  "I doubt it." "I can't," "It wont work."  These toxic statements send poison signals into the atmosphere and they reverberate through out every fiber of your being. They infect those around you. They repel any good that is trying to get into your tiny window to your world. They spoil seeds of success you have planted. No more. You will arm yourself with the following tools and these will help you during your trip out of the PPZ: 

1.  Hand mirror
2.  Pen
3.  Note pad

These three items will be the combination necessary to eliminate doubt and fear from your life.

Open your tool box and take out the mirror. Hold it in front of your face. Look at yourself. Look at your eyes, your nose, your lips, your hair, you ears, your eyebrows, your eyelashes, your chin, your forehead. Look at every feature of your face. Learn it. Know it. Become friends with it. I know, you are thinking, why should I do that? I see my face every day. You SEE your face every day, but do your KNOW the person that is staring back at you? Have you met the successful person on the other side of those eyes just chomping at the bit to get out. Or is that person lost in the PPZ? 

From this point on, you will access your tool box on a daily basis. You will utilize your mirror and you will look yourself in the face and you will tell yourself you are worth every darn cell in your body. You deserve happiness, you deserve strength of body and mind, you deserve stability, and you deserve peace. No longer will you be trapped by doubt and fear. You will have all that you deserve and more. You will find out about the other tools soon enough.