There is nothing to fear, except fear itself.
The above sentence seems like a bit of a cliche today, but isn't that what makes it a truism, something true but over said. Something said without thought maybe?
I guess the question is, can you be brutally honest with yourself, about what it is you fear?
Facing Your Fears
Not many people will subject them self to the level of introspection required to discover the fears that holds them back the most, I don't know if I have, but I have noticed that if you deal with one you will likely be presented with another. I propose that "facing your fears", or dealing with them rather, is a day to day task, something that persists, at least until you stop resisting against your fear and accept it for what it is (whatever it may be).
If you fear dying, and that's your only fear, I have bad news for you son, ...your gonna die!
Self Help: The Game Changer
What I am about to give you will change your life. I should be selling it to you in a ten part series. Do the things that you learn here today and you will be successful beyond your wildest dreams.
In fact if I was to charge you I could comfortably guarantee your money back if it didn't work. The information that follows this intro is going to put Tony Robbins outa business for good!
...Now, who doesn't want to change their life for the better! Who doesn't want to become a success!
...Ok The next four verses contains information, long forgotten, which holds the secret to eternal success or your money back!
If
If you can keep your head when all about you;
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too.
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;
If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster,
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make a heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: “Hold on!”
*If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!
Rudyard Kipling *
This was written in 1895 by Rudyard Kipling, contained in the four verses is everything you are ever going to need to know about self help. No worries guys, you can thank me later.
But that's not all, because I know what your saying. Your saying "Louis, that all sounds like hardwork, nobody is going to do that!" And you would be right. So here's what I'm going to do, I'll give you some more revolutionary advice...
...Take each of the above lines and right a chapter about it, package the chapters in four books (one for each verse) have the books published, or he'll self publish it, then watch the success roll in.
There are a lot of Ifs' up above, but I wonder about this; what if someone actually decided, I will hold myself to each and every line. Each and every line without comprise, would that be something to be fearfull of? Would that be a fear worth overcoming?
If we lived our lives like this, instead of searching for gain, by being the victim of the world. Would that be a better world? I see nothing more selfless than owning your own problems, so you don't become a burden on anyone and nothing more selfish than being that burden.
Point is that most are too afraid to do it.
Here is the "Secret", The universe is not going to provide shit, but if you wish to persist, please refer to the following video for further instructions.
LB✌
Unus pro omnibus, omnes pro uno.