Fear as Motivation

by David Ferrers

“An interesting thing about fear, it can be disguised motivation.”

“People often call fear having ‘butterflies in your stomach’; and the question is not how to kill the butterflies, but rather how to teach them to fly in formation.”     Robert Dilts

The trick to doing this is to give different meaning to the fear. To place it in a different frame of reference so that it works for you to help you move towards your goal, rather than against you by paralysing your actions.

To do this you need to rearrange your memories and give different meaning to the memory by perhaps changing the meta-message.

Success depends on accessing the hidden beliefs that are the real power behind the feeling. These limiting beliefs place governors on our ambitions by stirring up fears that dictate our habit of failing to achieve our goals.

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