“Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.” – Erica Jong Do you hate it when people complain? It turns out there’s a good reason: Listening to too much complaining is bad for your brain in multiple ways, according to Trevor Blake, a serial entrepreneur and […]
We’ve been discussing some fears that can limit or even prevent a leader’s success. And in our last blog, we looked at how someone could use a worst-case scenario to visualize what might happen as the result of a perceived failure or change in life. Here are some steps to using the worst-case scenario: Describe […]
We’ve been discussing fears that limit or prevent a leader’s success: fear of failure, fear of success, fear of rejection and fear of selling, and how these may have limited you. Here we look at fear of rejection and fear of selling. Fear of rejection. Inherent to the fear of rejection is the irrational belief […]
We’ve been discussing some fears that can limit or even prevent a leader’s success: fear of failure, fear of success, fear of rejection and fear of selling, and how these may have limited you.. We discussed the fear of failure earlier on in this blog series, so I this blog entry, we will concentrate on: […]
How can you get comfortable with being uncomfortable? Use these following techniques to learn, grow, improve and step out of fear. Brief intervals. You can build up your tolerance for discomfort by intervals. It’s like getting into better physical condition: You need to work out several times a week over a long period of time […]
Exercise Your secret fears. Do you have fears you keep secret? Secrets are emotional poison. Have the courage to free yourself from your secret fears, gain more confidence and self-esteem. What is it you are afraid people find out about you? Think creatively about how to deal with your fears, just as Dan did – […]
Look at that question in the headline again. Do you? You’re not alone. We can’t even count the number of highly successful executives, entrepreneurs and sales professionals who’ve told us, “I feel like a fraud,” or something similar. And all these talented people had a secret fear. Just like one very powerful businessman, whom we’ll […]
“Problems always involve risk.” – Anonymous People want inspirational leaders. Do you inspire those you lead? Do you inspire them with your courage and willingness to take well thought out risks? Do you stay with what’s comfortable or push yourself out of your comfort zone and inspire others to do the same? Can you imagine […]
Excessive stress and anxiety can hurt you mentally, emotionally and physically. Excessive negative stress will actually block your use of the executive part of your brain, the most advanced portion of your brain where your willpower and ability for higher consciousness thinking exists. In sport and performance psychology, it’s well known that there is a […]
“I will never quit.” That statement is not just a phrase on Captain Iván Castro’s Army Special Forces insignia. It’s both a statement of purpose as well as the philosophy by which he lives his life. Tip of the Spear, a publication dedicated to supporting our troops, perfectly illustrated this story of Captain Iván Castro. […]
