How do I tame my fear of the unknown, the difficult?

 How do I tame my fear of the unknown, the difficult, the tasks I need to do that I am ill-suited to do?

One day I’ll have an editor. Or maybe a brilliant assistant. Someone who is good at things I am lousy at.

I have major holes in my brain. It started with my brain development in the womb. I am on the autistic spectrum, an experiment of sorts. Then I had my two massive brain injuries… One in 1969 and one in 1998.

So I was never good at putting things to order. Time order… what needs to get done first and what needs to get done next. Even just thinking about that, the brain cells that would do that work start to hurt. So maybe I should exercise them… hm… that is an idea.

But this is the fir

If it is NOT beauty, truth or goodness that inspires you

A higher state of being, a higher state of consciousness is when you are touched, moved, and inspired…
Let’s look at the word inspired first
People are writing to me claiming that they get touched, weepy from certain values. But when you look at their lives, that is an experience that does NOT inform their lives, only their eyes… Or maybe their ego, their mind?

What is inspired?

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Want to model after the success of Alex Hormozi?

What do you use to win? To encourage you to not quit? to stay in the game?
In a private conversation, when I asked her to pick to model someone who has done what she hopes to do, a client picked Alex Hormozi… one of my favorite people on the planet.

His story is, on one hand, unique, on the other hand is standard entrepreneur story.

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Who are you? Beauty, truth or goodness? Let’s find out

I was having an interesting conversation with one of my students.

Because he wanted to write his thesis on the Feelings book, an unknown entity, he needed to gain his thesis counselor’s support. And maybe even his enthusiasm. Or he was going to be alone… and it was going to be a tough road to hoe.

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Money, Free Will. Growth, Death, Choice, Choose

the effort it takes to become a butterfly Money. Growth. Energy to exchange for more comfort. For more toys. More play. For more knowledge. For a longer and more interesting life.

All those are important, they are elements of Man’s purpose: to be expanding, growing.

Growth

Expanding and growing is essential to survival. If the main purpose of life is to survive, then this is the least reactive part of survival: it is proactive, and therefore the most fun.

Being an expanding human being takes strong inner forces to overcome the resistance of forces that work against growth: competition, fear of failure, laziness, slothfulness of mind, etc.

With that said: most of humanity, even aft

Positivity, positive thinking is a mental illness.

Positivity, positive thinking is a mental illness.
Setting rules is also a mental illness.
Doing only what seems to have the highest chance to succeed: ditto.

You treat yourself as if you were a nincompoop, but when I call you that you are offended.

You treat yourself a feeble minded toad, a never do well… and expect others treat you as a prince, or a genius.

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10 Key Success Quotes That You NEED To Hear and the illusion of progress

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.by Alex Ferriera

Please pay attention: this is NOT my article, and the references to “I” and “me” are not mine, they are Alex Ferriera’s… I am republishing these quotes because I want it to be an experiment… Clue is at the end of the article.

Motivation is as much of necessary habit as eating is. Constantly surround yourself with the correct inspiration and you are sure to expand your dreams. Here are some of my favorite quotes which remind me to keep progressing forward.

10. “To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.”
~Anonymous

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.

The fear of

Flip the context of your most traumatic incident

One of the transformational moves I use with my students is “flipping the context.”

Context is decisive, and the context inside which you live your life is what makes your life great or horrible… not what happens to you.

Here is an example of flipping the context from my favorite horoscope writer, Rob Brezsny:

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