Feel The Fear and Do It Anyway

The subject of this book came up last night at Toastmasters. I listened to it on tape when I was driving 54 miles each way to/from work some years ago. I'm thinking I should listen to it again because I seem to need help getting/keeping myself on track toward my goals.

I keep thinking my wife would benefit from it to help her overcome her fear of heights. Like most of us, she views avoidance as less painful than breaking through and enjoying what she's been missing by avoiding "the edges" and the best vantage points.

Dunno - just a very puzzling situation.

Still, in all, I need to get hold of the feelings that pass through me when I see my own potential. Right now, something about realizing that potential is paralyzing me, causing me to seek avoidances like watching movies on TV, participating in Usenet newsgroups or writing this blog.

In the past, I've captured the power within me and used it to raise myself up from a factory worker to an IT professional. I used it in high school, also: my junior year I performed in the talent show - a poor to mediocre performance, as I recall; my senior year, I produced/directed the talent show and received some very unexpected compliments on it.

I want to learn how to recapture my own personal power (yes, I have the Tony Robbins tape set!). Much of what lies ahead of us depends on me to provide for a comfortable retirement.