Creating with intention
Everyone experiences risk. No one is immune to the anxiety that comes with it.
The difference between the daring and the successful is that they’ve learned to cope with it.
Questions to ask:
How can I minimize my anxieties surrounding this?
Can I make myself feel better about this decision?
The more you dive, the more you’ll enter the water in a way that doesn’t hurt, and the board won’t seem quite as high…
Jump.
We all know the crime scene where the good guy is framed by the bad guy. “It’s not fair,” we say. “He was framed!”
We set ourselves up every day.
Happiness, good friends, a rewarding career, an organized household — they’re the result of choices. The places we go and the people we surround ourselves with result in particular outcomes.
The choices aren’t always easy, but that’s why not everyone is successful.
Set yourself up to prosper.
If you go into a situation thinking it is valuable, it will be.
If you walk into a room thinking you’re defeated, you are.
If you know you’re ready to meet the partner of your dreams, you will.
If you are looking for inspiration, you’ll find it.
“Do I belong in this group?”
“Does what I have to say matter?”
“Are my ideas valuable?”
These are questions that have plagued the most brave, the most confident, the most successful among us. At some point in time, most people have had these thoughts.
The difference lies in the answer.
Successful people know how to convince themselves “YES!”
And even if they don’t believe it, they pretend anyway.