FEAR IS THE ENEMY

What do you FEAR!?

There are a million excuses and zero real reasons. Most people live in a fear driven state and never truly bet on themselves. Confidence is missing because it was never built when it mattered most; it was never earned through pressure, struggle, or responsibility. This begins in childhood with how your parents raise you, but it can be learned in young adulthood too. Think about it, the people we admire most learned how to move through FEAR, not around it. They stopped playing it safe and chose to risk something meaningful in order to achieve something great. And comfort, well, that is the enemy of greatness. Comfort is the breeding ground for disease. Comfort is where weak men go to die. Every billionaire, every high achiever, every person who built something meaningful had to walk away from comfort and place a bet on themselves. Each time they stepped into something hard and uncomfortable, and survived it, they gained self-confidence. The only way confidence is built is through struggle, challenge, and adversity. Fear is the compass for mediocrity... and Fear is the Enemy.

If you are afraid to make a big move, that is exactly the move you need to make. If the idea of putting yourself in a vulnerable position scares you, even one that could cost you everything, that FEAR is pointing you in that direction. If you want to grow, you must learn how to read fear and use it to guide your decisions. Does your gut feel tight? Do you wake up anxious? Do you feel uncertain about what to do next? Hell yes, that is the right next step and the moment where massive action changes lives… That is where growth begins. When you can see yourself succeeding and something challenges that image, you move toward it instead of away from it. Success is built by working at something while being afraid and/or unsure if you can do it. Why? Because confidence is created in motion, not in comfort. The world belongs to those who take meaningful action, and failure is part of every great pursuit. There is no perfect time and no perfect environment. There is only you and your willingness to work day after day until you get where you are going. And when you reach that summit, you place another mountain in front of you and start climbing again. 

“The greatest risk in life is not taking risks.”

- Dan Pena

You must be willing to fail forward. You must take the seeds of failure and use them to grow. Growth comes from trial, error, and relentless persistence, not from ideal conditions. Besides, at the end of the day you create your environment. You choose the people around you. You choose what you read, what you eat, what you drink, and what you do every day. Surround yourself with people who push you, who expect more from themselves, and who refuse to settle. Being around people who achieve more than you forces you to raise your standards. You do not like feeling behind, great, this is where you need to be then – this is the pressure that makes you better. What you consume matters too. Reading books that educate you, challenge you, and build your mind will move you forward. Filling your life with garbage will pull you backward. Eat poorly and you will feel weak and unhappy. Stay around negative people and you will believe the world is against you. To be a winner you can’t sit around complaining about your  problems, you need to fixate on the solutions… and they take massive action! 

The only limit in life is the one you accept.