How to Thrive in this Difficult Economy by Overcoming Fear
How to Thrive in this Difficult Economy by Overcoming Fear
Being as this is a newsletter to address small business people, let’s look at fear and its impact on our businesses.
Once we have gotten a good understanding of the power of fear and the emptiness of that fear, we are going to look at how to empower ourselves and move beyond it, so that our businesses can not only survive this economy, but actually thrive in it.
The definition of Fear: to be afraid or feel anxious or apprehensive about a possible or probable situation or event.
First of all, the definition of fear has two key words in it---possible and probable. Notice that the feeling of fear is not over anything concrete, but only the possible or probable. It is something that may happen or may not, so in reality it is about something that is NOT REAL. This is important to understand, when we look at some universal principles to apply to our lives and businesses.
Another concept we want to understand about fear is that it is a feeling about something that is NOT REAL. It is only a feeling, which we have complete control over. Did we get that! It is just a feeling and if we shift our focus, we can change it in the snap of a moment. It is not permanent or set in concrete, it is simply a feeling.
When we are in fear, what we fear seems very real to us, but it has NOT happened, it is NOT REAL. I am not sure if you realize how important this is. We are not facing something that has really happened to us, we are just hoping that somehow that which is NOT REAL will not happen to us and become real.
To sum it up, fear is only a feeling about nothing that is real. When we look at fear this way, what I hope is that it makes it so small and insignificant and shows YOU HOW POWERFUL YOU ARE OVER IT.
This is the deal; we all have responsibility, control and power over our lives. Another thing the media and the standard attitude in our society promote is that everything is someone else’s fault and we are just victims of it. This is a very disempowering position to live in and as a business owner, you will be constantly at the whim of whatever and never able to succeed in your business with that attitude. Successful business people understand their creative power, their responsibility for their lives and destiny and never feel like a victim and never live in fear. They take it one step at a time and always know there is a solution to any real problem and never worry or are afraid of any “possible or probable” situation.
So let’s look at three universal principles and then some facts about fear:
1. Whatever you fear will come to you. This is a universal principle that whatever we fear WILL INDEED come to us. So if there is something that we fear may happen, it will happen BECAUSE we are fearing it. So in essence with a fearing approach, you have created and made real the very thing you did not want to happen. So the thing that was a feeling about nothing real, just created reality, because of this universal law. Again, the beauty of this is that we can simply choose to not fear. We have all the power and can completely change this feeling and create a positive reality.
2. What you resist, persists. Another universal principle is whatever you resist, will persist. We see this everyday in every way of life. If we want something to continue, all we have to do is resist it. It is amazing the difference in our lives when we take responsibility for it without judgment, quit resisting, and instead flow with things. We will have answers, things will work out and life just goes a whole lot better. Try it and see if you don’t find life a lot less stressful and you find that things are just going so much better. When I say don’t resist, this means that you embrace it, acknowledge it as it is, without judgment (judgment is a form of resistance), let it be and you be with it. Get into accepting it as it is and just wait and see if it just does not transmute into what you really want. The beautiful thing about this is that this works on everything in life: business, personal, physical, spiritual.
3. Whatever you focus on, expands: This is called the Law of Increase and it is a universal principle. So if we focus on negative, lack or fear, those will increase. If we focus on positive, prosperity and success, those will increase. Whether we believe this universal law or not, we use it everyday. So to have expand what you want, shift your focus, it is that simple. We do not have to struggle for days, weeks or months, just simply shift your focus and see if the positive expands, rather than the negative.
Now let’s look at some concepts about fear:
4. Fear is a form of resistance: This is why what you fear will come to you, because fear is a form of resistance. So whatever you resist, will persist.
5. Fear freezes you into paralysis by analysis. When we are fearing, we will most times end up analyzing a situation to death, because we are so afraid to move and make a decision. The silly thing about this is that the whole thing is simply an emotion about something that is not real and may not even happen. Then when we finally make a decision, it was the most cautious and disempowering choice we could have made and it will usually create the very thing we did not want to happen and feared in the first place.
6. Fear limits us from seeing any new ideas, we just get stuck and start going in a downward spiral: When we are in fear, we are so narrow focused, that we are not open to new ideas and ways to solve real problems. Again whatever we focus on, that is what expands or increases and so we just get ourselves deeper and deeper in the same hole.
7. Fear can cause exaggeration on what is completely in your mind, skewing your vision: Fear takes something that is NOT REAL and in your perception makes it a Godzilla in your life, looming over you and scaring you. IT IS NOT REAL, don’t let it have power over you. Shift your focus!
8. Decisions out of fear will always lead to lack, poverty, and be destructive: Because of the two principles of what you focus on, expands and what you resist, persists, fear will always lead to lack, poverty and self-destructive decisions and behavior.
9. Fear makes it so you cannot see reality: Fear gets in the way of what is REAL. It makes what is NOT REAL so big, that you can’t see reality in front of you.
10. Fear drains you for no reason: On top of all this, fear causes a great deal of stress, and just simply drains you of your ability to cope and solve any real problems.
So the principles listed in #1-3 are the answers to addressing fear. It is not complicated really. Real truth is often times the simplest of things and is amazingly easy for every human being to do and be. That is one of the most beautiful things about these universal truths that we are talking about here, EVERYONE can and does use them every day without fail, but we usually use them to our own detriment unconsciously, when we can just as easily use them to our own benefit consciously.
So let’s review the principles that we want to use to make it thru this time in our history and overcome any fear, which remember is just simply a feeling about something this is NOT REAL:
1. Whatever we focus on, expands. This is called the Law of Increase, and again whether we believe it or not, we will experience it. So if you focus on lack or loss, that will increase, but if you focus on the positive, that will increase. So to counter the fear/worry and to cause the right things to expand/increase, we need to focus on the positive about our business. Examples might be: I still have my biggest customers. I still have my solid customer base. I am cash flush because I have no debt. I have a good group of hardworking loyal employees. We have this great job and it will keep us for the next 6 months. Whatever it might be, the more you focus on the positive, the more it expands. We do not have to be victims to this situation of the economy. Have you ever wondered why someone can have affluence in the midst of a recession? It is all about where you are at internally that determines where you will be externally. So ONLY focus on the good. Find something to be grateful for in your business and continually focus on those things. Gratitude is a great way to focus on the positive, and not get distracted by the negative and fear.
2. What we resist, persists: It seems that out natural reaction is to resist something that we perceive as “bad” or “wrong”. This is why those things continue to happen, because what we resist, persists. The way to stop resisting these things is to just accept them, embrace them. We think that this will make it worse, but in actuality, resisting is what really makes it worse. Think about nature! Nothing in nature ever resists, it always flows and is in harmony, and things in nature, animals, plants, etc are always taken care of and flow perfectly. So with us, if we will just flow with something, just accept it, be with it and let it be without judgment on it, instead of resisting it, then we will find that it will actually transmute out of its current state into another. When we are in this state of non-resistance is when ideas come to us, feelings change, perspectives change and answers happen. There is so much more that could be said on this and in future newsletters, we are going to further discuss this topic. So stay tuned.
3. What we fear, comes to us. This is actually a combination of both #1 and #2, because when we are in fear, we focus on things that are not real and we constantly resist. So, as you can see, whatever we fear is absolutely sure to come to us. Again the beautiful thing about this is that fear is simply and only a feeling usually about nothing real, and so it is really quite simple to change. One of the easiest ways to shift from negative focus, resistance and fear is to always be in a state of gratitude. Gratitude is what will shift all of these things and will actually affect where your business will go.
So, be grateful! Be grateful for what you have. Be grateful for your employees. Be grateful for your customers. Be grateful for your health. Be grateful for your accounts receivables. Just find all that you can to be grateful for and you will see so many things change. I know this sounds like the simplest of things, but again, truth is always simple, not complicated and available to all of us, because we are all in this together.
In writing this article, I thought of many practical ways to help change things in your businesses to help with this time in our economy, but those will not help you, if you are unconsciously creating all the negative, so that is why I have written this article the way I have. All we need to do is open our eyes, open our hearts, be grateful, which will help us to focus on the positive, which will expand, and help us to not resist, causing the things we consider “negative” to persist.
I would challenge you to find everything you can in your life and business that you can be grateful for, write them down and review your list daily. Even look for things that you are grateful for in some of what you might consider the “negative” situations. You will be amazed at the perspective change you will experience. The main key in this gratitude process is to FEEL the gratitude, not just recite it in your head. Every day read your list that you are grateful for and FEEL the gratefulness for each item.
We have all heard about the The Secret and about the Law of Attraction, which is definitely true and we all know the power and knowledge about affirmations, but without these other truths and laws of the universe in our understanding, our affirmations or intentions will not happen.
So let’s open our eyes, see the fear mongering media and its many lies for what they are, and let’s redirect our focus and our sights to a place of gratefulness that will actually change our economy around one person and one company at a time
How to Thrive in this Difficult Economy by Overcoming Fear - To learn more about this author, visit Jacquie M. Adkins's Website.
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This month I am going to take a little different approach. The topic for this month is FEAR. There seems to be a lot of fear going around these days in our personal lives, business lives and just everywhere. The fear mongering media wants to make sure we all stay in fear, because then we loose our power to control our own lives and destiny. Keeping someone in fear is a good way to make them feel powerless and thus, unsuccessful.
Being as this is a newsletter to address small business people, let’s look at fear and its impact on our businesses.
Once we have gotten a good understanding of the power of fear and the emptiness of that fear, we are going to look at how to empower ourselves and move beyond it, so that our businesses can not only survive this economy, but actually thrive in it.
The definition of Fear: to be afraid or feel anxious or apprehensive about a possible or probable situation or event.
First of all, the definition of fear has two key words in it---possible and probable. Notice that the feeling of fear is not over anything concrete, but only the possible or probable. It is something that may happen or may not, so in reality it is about something that is NOT REAL. This is important to understand, when we look at some universal principles to apply to our lives and businesses.
Another concept we want to understand about fear is that it is a feeling about something that is NOT REAL. It is only a feeling, which we have complete control over. Did we get that! It is just a feeling and if we shift our focus, we can change it in the snap of a moment. It is not permanent or set in concrete, it is simply a feeling.
When we are in fear, what we fear seems very real to us, but it has NOT happened, it is NOT REAL. I am not sure if you realize how important this is. We are not facing something that has really happened to us, we are just hoping that somehow that which is NOT REAL will not happen to us and become real.
To sum it up, fear is only a feeling about nothing that is real. When we look at fear this way, what I hope is that it makes it so small and insignificant and shows YOU HOW POWERFUL YOU ARE OVER IT.
This is the deal; we all have responsibility, control and power over our lives. Another thing the media and the standard attitude in our society promote is that everything is someone else’s fault and we are just victims of it. This is a very disempowering position to live in and as a business owner, you will be constantly at the whim of whatever and never able to succeed in your business with that attitude. Successful business people understand their creative power, their responsibility for their lives and destiny and never feel like a victim and never live in fear. They take it one step at a time and always know there is a solution to any real problem and never worry or are afraid of any “possible or probable” situation.
So let’s look at three universal principles and then some facts about fear:
1. Whatever you fear will come to you. This is a universal principle that whatever we fear WILL INDEED come to us. So if there is something that we fear may happen, it will happen BECAUSE we are fearing it. So in essence with a fearing approach, you have created and made real the very thing you did not want to happen. So the thing that was a feeling about nothing real, just created reality, because of this universal law. Again, the beauty of this is that we can simply choose to not fear. We have all the power and can completely change this feeling and create a positive reality.
2. What you resist, persists. Another universal principle is whatever you resist, will persist. We see this everyday in every way of life. If we want something to continue, all we have to do is resist it. It is amazing the difference in our lives when we take responsibility for it without judgment, quit resisting, and instead flow with things. We will have answers, things will work out and life just goes a whole lot better. Try it and see if you don’t find life a lot less stressful and you find that things are just going so much better. When I say don’t resist, this means that you embrace it, acknowledge it as it is, without judgment (judgment is a form of resistance), let it be and you be with it. Get into accepting it as it is and just wait and see if it just does not transmute into what you really want. The beautiful thing about this is that this works on everything in life: business, personal, physical, spiritual.
3. Whatever you focus on, expands: This is called the Law of Increase and it is a universal principle. So if we focus on negative, lack or fear, those will increase. If we focus on positive, prosperity and success, those will increase. Whether we believe this universal law or not, we use it everyday. So to have expand what you want, shift your focus, it is that simple. We do not have to struggle for days, weeks or months, just simply shift your focus and see if the positive expands, rather than the negative.
Now let’s look at some concepts about fear:
4. Fear is a form of resistance: This is why what you fear will come to you, because fear is a form of resistance. So whatever you resist, will persist.
5. Fear freezes you into paralysis by analysis. When we are fearing, we will most times end up analyzing a situation to death, because we are so afraid to move and make a decision. The silly thing about this is that the whole thing is simply an emotion about something that is not real and may not even happen. Then when we finally make a decision, it was the most cautious and disempowering choice we could have made and it will usually create the very thing we did not want to happen and feared in the first place.
6. Fear limits us from seeing any new ideas, we just get stuck and start going in a downward spiral: When we are in fear, we are so narrow focused, that we are not open to new ideas and ways to solve real problems. Again whatever we focus on, that is what expands or increases and so we just get ourselves deeper and deeper in the same hole.
7. Fear can cause exaggeration on what is completely in your mind, skewing your vision: Fear takes something that is NOT REAL and in your perception makes it a Godzilla in your life, looming over you and scaring you. IT IS NOT REAL, don’t let it have power over you. Shift your focus!
8. Decisions out of fear will always lead to lack, poverty, and be destructive: Because of the two principles of what you focus on, expands and what you resist, persists, fear will always lead to lack, poverty and self-destructive decisions and behavior.
9. Fear makes it so you cannot see reality: Fear gets in the way of what is REAL. It makes what is NOT REAL so big, that you can’t see reality in front of you.
10. Fear drains you for no reason: On top of all this, fear causes a great deal of stress, and just simply drains you of your ability to cope and solve any real problems.
So the principles listed in #1-3 are the answers to addressing fear. It is not complicated really. Real truth is often times the simplest of things and is amazingly easy for every human being to do and be. That is one of the most beautiful things about these universal truths that we are talking about here, EVERYONE can and does use them every day without fail, but we usually use them to our own detriment unconsciously, when we can just as easily use them to our own benefit consciously.
So let’s review the principles that we want to use to make it thru this time in our history and overcome any fear, which remember is just simply a feeling about something this is NOT REAL:
1. Whatever we focus on, expands. This is called the Law of Increase, and again whether we believe it or not, we will experience it. So if you focus on lack or loss, that will increase, but if you focus on the positive, that will increase. So to counter the fear/worry and to cause the right things to expand/increase, we need to focus on the positive about our business. Examples might be: I still have my biggest customers. I still have my solid customer base. I am cash flush because I have no debt. I have a good group of hardworking loyal employees. We have this great job and it will keep us for the next 6 months. Whatever it might be, the more you focus on the positive, the more it expands. We do not have to be victims to this situation of the economy. Have you ever wondered why someone can have affluence in the midst of a recession? It is all about where you are at internally that determines where you will be externally. So ONLY focus on the good. Find something to be grateful for in your business and continually focus on those things. Gratitude is a great way to focus on the positive, and not get distracted by the negative and fear.
2. What we resist, persists: It seems that out natural reaction is to resist something that we perceive as “bad” or “wrong”. This is why those things continue to happen, because what we resist, persists. The way to stop resisting these things is to just accept them, embrace them. We think that this will make it worse, but in actuality, resisting is what really makes it worse. Think about nature! Nothing in nature ever resists, it always flows and is in harmony, and things in nature, animals, plants, etc are always taken care of and flow perfectly. So with us, if we will just flow with something, just accept it, be with it and let it be without judgment on it, instead of resisting it, then we will find that it will actually transmute out of its current state into another. When we are in this state of non-resistance is when ideas come to us, feelings change, perspectives change and answers happen. There is so much more that could be said on this and in future newsletters, we are going to further discuss this topic. So stay tuned.
3. What we fear, comes to us. This is actually a combination of both #1 and #2, because when we are in fear, we focus on things that are not real and we constantly resist. So, as you can see, whatever we fear is absolutely sure to come to us. Again the beautiful thing about this is that fear is simply and only a feeling usually about nothing real, and so it is really quite simple to change. One of the easiest ways to shift from negative focus, resistance and fear is to always be in a state of gratitude. Gratitude is what will shift all of these things and will actually affect where your business will go.
So, be grateful! Be grateful for what you have. Be grateful for your employees. Be grateful for your customers. Be grateful for your health. Be grateful for your accounts receivables. Just find all that you can to be grateful for and you will see so many things change. I know this sounds like the simplest of things, but again, truth is always simple, not complicated and available to all of us, because we are all in this together.
In writing this article, I thought of many practical ways to help change things in your businesses to help with this time in our economy, but those will not help you, if you are unconsciously creating all the negative, so that is why I have written this article the way I have. All we need to do is open our eyes, open our hearts, be grateful, which will help us to focus on the positive, which will expand, and help us to not resist, causing the things we consider “negative” to persist.
I would challenge you to find everything you can in your life and business that you can be grateful for, write them down and review your list daily. Even look for things that you are grateful for in some of what you might consider the “negative” situations. You will be amazed at the perspective change you will experience. The main key in this gratitude process is to FEEL the gratitude, not just recite it in your head. Every day read your list that you are grateful for and FEEL the gratefulness for each item.
We have all heard about the The Secret and about the Law of Attraction, which is definitely true and we all know the power and knowledge about affirmations, but without these other truths and laws of the universe in our understanding, our affirmations or intentions will not happen.
So let’s open our eyes, see the fear mongering media and its many lies for what they are, and let’s redirect our focus and our sights to a place of gratefulness that will actually change our economy around one person and one company at a time
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