Why chase your dreams when you can sit under a blanket afraid of everything?
– Are your dreams and goals getting in the way of you leading an unproductive life? 
– Does the idea of success keep you up in fits of anxiety all night?
– Are your Netflix and chill moments being interrupted by constant opportunities?
What you need is more paralyzing Fear in your life and you need it now.
With a good dose of fear you can spend your days on the couch afraid to chase the dreams you’ve had since you were a kid. No more, “I can be anything I imagine”. Instead, you can wallow in all the missed opportunity and wasted time while people around you get a head and bask in their victories. Fear is an art and you can master it with these 12 exciting steps.
If you’ve ever needed proof that you should STAY UNDER THE BLANKET because you don’t count and your dreams don’t matter…
- Be afraid of your dreams and goals. You’ve had them locked away in your heart all these years. Keep them there because they can change your life and who needs that?
- Be afraid you’re not good enough. Understand this on a visceral level. Whatever skill you’re trying to master, forget about it. You’ll never be good enough. There will always be someone better at it and probably more attractive than you. There’s really no point in embarrassing yourself.
- Be afraid that it will be too hard. Nothing worth the effort comes easy. It’s not supposed to. Reaching the life you’ve always wanted is just too hard. Don’t waste the effort. Make it easy on yourself, too hard is too much.
- Be afraid to get yourself out there. Stay in. All the time. Meet no one. No one can see you not getting anywhere. No one can criticize you. Nor can anyone see your greatness and help you.
- Be afraid of Yes. Say No to everything. Yes can open so many doors. It can help you get out of your environment or a mental funk. It can lead to answers to unsolved problems. Yes is too much work for what will amount to nothing. Instead, say No to everything. They say, “Nothing ventured, nothing gained” like it’s a bad thing.
- Be afraid of risk. Risk is a dangerous muse. Risk will pull you out of your comfort zone and make you do things you might not be ready for. It will expose you and all your flaws (and possible talents, gifts and attributes) for everyone to see and mock.
- Be afraid of what people think of you. What people say about you matters more than what you think of yourself. They don’t like you and probably for a good reason, too. Listen to them, they’re smarter than you.
- Be afraid to fail. Failure hurts. It shows us the proof that whoever didn’t believe in us was right. Nothing can ever be learned from failure except that it was a bad idea to try. Someone better will get there anyway. We don’t deserve it.
- Be afraid to succeed. Almost no one achieves their dreams, right? If you say it long enough then you’ll believe it. Why bother trying when you know it won’t work. Thankfully, it won’t because if it did then you’d have to grow and change and those are bad things.
- Be afraid to look foolish. It’s all about you, not the bigger picture in your head. Never mind that some of life’s greatest lessons come at the expense of your ego. Never mind that no matter how silly you look you will survive and grow from it.
- Be afraid to get hurt. Pain hurts. No one likes pain. Think of all those loser boxers, martial artists, football players who got beat up and went nowhere. Remember, getting hurt is a risk and we don’t take risks, right?
- Be afraid of rejection. This is the emotional pain component. No one likes to be rejected. It’s a proof that we are not good enough. Rejection is hard. It forces us to examine ourselves and seek avenues of improvement but for what, only to be rejected again?
Master these 12 simple steps today and you’ll be going nowhere faster than a rocket without an engine!!
Do you see how stupid this all sounds? Do you see also how many of these steps you do each day?
A little fear is alright. It keeps us alert and safe.
All the fear is the enemy. Fear in its total and purest form fools you into believing that the world is a big bad place where there is no room for a happy, successful and fulfilled you.
That’s a lie.
You can have a little fear but you can’t be afraid.
Success takes work and work takes courage and that leads to rewards you can’t predict. Take the risk.
Up and away,
Tommy
