Preconceptions are previously formed opinions, or ideas, you have about yourself. These preformed opinions, or biases, about who you are can influence your future feelings and actions.

The most significant way to determine whether or not you will succeed is whether your preconceptions are positive or negative.

Negative preconceptions prevent you from motivating yourself. They also prevent you from taking positive action to change your self-image.

With barriers or unpleasant situations in your way, it’s extremely difficult to see clearly enough to remove the obstacles. When barriers block your growth process, your self-worth and self confidence are weakened. The opportunity to relate to, work with, or be acknowledged by others is diminished. Negative preconceptions are counter productive, self-punishing, and unhelpful.

Your self-worth and self-confidence are strengthened when you’re able to relate to others and be acknowledged in ways that you value and that cause you the least amount of discomfort. Once you eliminate negative preconceptions, you become aware of and begin to experience the kinds of relationships and situations that help you build your sense of self-esteem and self-confidence.

When you begin to discover situations that raise your self-worth and self-confidence, take advantage of those situations. Instead of saying to yourself, “What does it really matter,” believe that you have control of changing your life and say, “I’m going for it,” “I feel so optimistic that every situation is an exciting challenge,” “I’m unstoppable.” Change your negative vocabulary and self-talk into positive vocabulary and self-talk on a continual basis.

Identifying statements that create negative emotions (i.e., anxiety, fear, and insecurity) and statements that create positive emotions (i.e., excitement, joy, and challenge) affords you the opportunity to change your statements to create positive emotional and mental states. Ultimately, this will change how you act toward others.

Involve yourself in healthy, optimistic situations that generate positive outcomes and help you overcome fears. Fears are inner barriers, or roadblocks, that can be removed by changing negative thoughts into positive ones to create positive action.

Fears are fueled by a poor or negative self-image. Fear of making decisions, helplessness, fear of rejection, fear of failure, fear of your own greatness, and fear of your own talents are all behaviors, or conditions, that prevent you from changing.

When you fear failure, your motivation is to avoid failure rather than to achieve or seek success. You can fear your best as well as your worst. These barriers will also prevent you from exerting yourself, not because you can’t perform, but because you fear you can’t perform well.

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Well, it’s precisely what does happen each time we enter a new situation. Most of the time, however, we call it “fear” and we don’t like it.

Contrary to popular belief, our parents didn’t teach us to feel fear. Our parents did teach us to use fear as a reason not to do something and they did this from love. A child cannot logically determine if its physical well being was or was not endangered when attempting each new activity.

Unfortunately, at the age of eighteen or so, when we do know the difference between that which is truly dangerous and that which is merely new and untried, no one draws us aside and says, “That fear you’ve been using as a reason not to do things – it’s really part of the energy to get things done.”

The first thing we need when entering a new situation (be it physically, or in our imagination) is more energy.

A new situation, by definition, will be different, and extra energy will help us meet the challenges of whatever “different” may offer. When we feel fear, our body releases into the blood stream adrenaline, glucose and other energy-producing chemicals. This physical energy is available to support our thoughts and actions.

In a new situation, naturally we want all the information we can get. This is when the sharpened senses, sensitivity and heightened awareness associated with fear are useful – they help us absorb and more quickly process the new information.

Another aspect of fear is letting go of irrelevancies. We automatically focus on what’s most important, “and let the rest of the world go by.” When in a new situation, we want to focus on what’s in front of us, what’s central, what’s significant. Fear drives thoughts about whether the grapefruit will be on sale or not right out of our awareness.

Part of doing our best in a new situation involves learning. There is so much to learn from a new experience – so much to learn about the experience and, more importantly, so much to learn about ourselves.

Fear provides a good environment for learning – not an ideal environment (fear is not known for its abundance of patience) – but a good environment nonetheless. The energy, clarity of mind and ability to focus are excellent tools for learning.

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If so, you are certainly not alone because fear is one of the biggest obstacles that many people face when trying to create better life circumstances.

Below are the 5 most common ways that fear can hold you back:

1. Fear can prevent you from making positive changes.

Sometimes fear can make even the smallest changes seem extremely uncomfortable. For example, you may be deeply dissatisfied with your job, but feel nervous or uncertain about finding and applying for a better one. Or you may have always dreamed of buying your own home but worry that the responsibility would be too much to handle.

2. Fear can prevent you from breaking destructive habits.

We all know that smoking, poor dietary choices, excessive alcohol and a sedentary lifestyle are a recipe for health problems, but we often gravitate toward these habits because they help numb our anxious or fearful feelings. If you have ever tried to break a bad habit like this, you know how stressful it can be because suddenly you are filled with anxiety and you don’t know how to handle it except to run back to your “pacifiers” – the very habits you are trying to break.

3. Fear can prevent you from taking risks.

Many of us shy away from risk because we fear negative consequences. For example, you may hesitate to invest your money because you fear losing it, or avoid starting a new relationship because you were so hurt by the last one. What most of us fail to realize is that risk can also bring great rewards. Avoiding risk may help us avoid negative possibilities but we also miss the excitement and joy that come from positive outcomes.

4. Fear can prevent you from pursuing your goals.

Have you ever dreamed of doing something great but were never able to push yourself to do it? Perhaps you dreamed of being a stand-up comedian but dreaded the thought of public speaking, or you desperately wanted to be a bestselling author but were too afraid to pen that novel lurking inside of you.

5. Fear can prevent you from expanding your life.

Social anxiety is another common way that fear can limit your potential. It may prevent you from attending networking functions so your career or business can’t grow properly, or you may avoid taking that much needed vacation to relax and explore other cultures because you fear flying or being on a cruise ship.

How to Stop Fear from Limiting Your Potential?

It’s important to note that all of these fears are most often groundless. They are merely a perception that things “could” go wrong – but that doesn’t mean they will.

Rather than trying to force your way through the fear, you may find it easier to explore the many ways that fear can be effectively released from your mind, emotions, and body. When you know how to release the fear, you simply handle it as you would any minor obstacle and then continue on your way to creating the best life you possibly can.

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Most people don’t have to fear success, because they don’t understand it.

They don’t appreciate how painful it is for you to keep dropping the ball just when you were about to carry it across the line. They don’t understand why someone with your abilities keeps messing up terrific opportunities. It’s a mystery to you too.

You know you’re gifted, because you get noticed. You’ve been offered a lot of chances, and the people who’ve offered them weren’t wrong. They saw what you were capable of. Yet whenever you get near what you want, something happens – you lose focus at a crucial moment and turn your energy to something unimportant, or your mood mysteriously drops and you get tired just when you need energy the most.

You’ve got to find out what that something is, because what you don’t know is hurting you. Take a careful look at your life and you’ll probably see a history of missed opportunities that stretches all the way back to your childhood.

Your past won’t determine your future if you can find out why you have such an odd relationship with success.

Here are Three Ways to Overcome Fear of Success:

1. Continually tell yourself that you welcome challenges. Stand ready and willing to challenge yourself to your maximum capacity. Move forward in your communication by deleting all negative self-talk.

2. Believe that whatever you set out to accomplish, you will give it one-hundred percent. Stop providing excuses to blame yourself, becoming disempowered from achieving your goals and increasing your self-esteem. Believe that your “pride of accomplishment” motivates you to eliminate all the “shoulds,” “oughts,” and “musts,” from your vocabulary.

3. Be the best you can. Continually “see” yourself in an evolving way. Stretch every mental, emotional, and physical fiber within you. Believe and feel that you are one dynamite, ecstatic, and powerful person. Remember, your beliefs impact the way you feel and act.

How would your life look, feel and sound if you could Feel Great For No Particular Reason at the flick of a switch?

Success is Yours,
Daniel