Scared Money Doesn’t Win

Most people wait to feel ready, but that moment rarely comes. Courage doesn’t come before the leap, it comes after. Whether it’s your first email, video or sales call, don’t wait for fear to fade, move with it. This mindset shift could change everything.

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So, like a lot of people, when they face self-doubt, and everybody does, every single one of them, even the biggest achievers, the overachievers, they experience even more doubt than the average person, because they keep raising the stakes. So, everybody goes through the same thing, and most people, I think, their mistake is this: They’re waiting for the moment when the self-doubt would disappear and motivation would show up to allow them to take action. They sort of wait for the moment when they’ve got the courage, or they’ve sort of, like been inspired enough to take action, and while they’re feeling the self-doubt they do not, that’s the natural and I guess the reasonable thing to do, given how you feel in the moment.

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But, the truth of achievement is such that you have to act while experiencing self-doubt and fear. You basically have to follow the old proverb about brave people, how brave people, It’s not like they don’t feel fear, it’s not like they don’t get afraid, they are afraid! They kind of piss their pants, but they take action anyway, with wet pants, so to speak, right?

So, while you’re afraid, while you have that self doubt, while you’re crippled with doubt, you have to act, and your courage shows up in the process of you taking the actions. It’s highly counterintuitive, it’s the most confusing thing ever. But, you gain the courage and you gain the momentum, and you get rid of self-doubt while taking the action, and not before, period!

there’s never been a man who was not afraid of asking a woman out, just there’s no man like that! It’s just so natural and so intuitive to just feel that fear of rejection. But once you’re in that conversation, kind of follow the three second rule, you count one, two, three and you go, right? Once you’re in a conversation with a woman, the fear and the doubt, they disappear, and all of a sudden you’re just having a conversation! So, in the same way, whatever is making you afraid, whatever is causing you to feel self-doubt, it will not go away, until you take action.

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It’s sort of like in the Indiana Jones movie, the third movie with Sean Connery, when indeed, the Indiana Jones character had to take a leap of faith, if you remember. So, he’s like on the edge of this abyss, basically, in front of him, there’s the cup, the Jesus’s cup, right? And so, you can’t reach it by jumping. There’s no ledge to hold on to. And then he gets a clue that basically says that he has to take a leap of faith, and then he figures it out. He just takes a step forward, and he steps on solid ground, in spite of it not looking like solid ground. You might have heard the phrase, “Jump off the cliff and build a parachute on the way down”? That’s what entrepreneurs do, well, that’s what they mean.

You have self-doubt, you’ve got the fear, you have no clear plan of action, you just know what’s the outcome you would like to achieve, and you know the next step you gotta take, but you don’t have a clear plan, and then you have to start while being afraid, while feeling self doubt, while crippled with fear, and just go! You gotta do it, period!

And once you’re in it, once you’re in the fight, so to speak, that’s when fear disappears. That’s when self-doubt disappears, and you’re just focused on the task at hand, and it’s no longer that scary, you no longer have that crazy self-doubt. You’re just doing the thing. It’s amazing!

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It’s really hard to put it in words, but that’s how it works. You’re afraid, but you do it anyway. That’s the only way that I can describe doing anything that I’ve ever done that scared the living crap out of me, in this business, be it, filming my first video, writing my first email, hosting my first webinar, I had no idea what I was doing! Pitching somebody on the phone with my coaching program, even creating the presentation, the VSL for The ListBuilding Lifestyle, even that, I had no idea how it’s gonna go.

But on the first day, when we launched it, we had 300 members join. It was scary as hell, I had no idea what to expect, but I did it anyway. Because at the time, I already understood the secret, the quan, the secret to success. The secret is, you’re afraid, but you do it anyway! I know it doesn’t really sound like a crazy, spectacular advice, but that’s how it works. Be afraid, but do it anyway.

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