Failure will come walking right to your door anytime you begin to hold back. It does not matter what level of success you have achieved. Put your heart and soul into something or failure will surely follow. Try this exercise to help you learn not to hold back. You will experience a new level of life.
1. What in the past have you wanted to achieve, made a couple steps toward it and then, pulled back? It is in this area or thing that will show you are not putting your heart and spirit into all the way. You could succeed in this area if you would allow yourself to stop holding back.
2. Write a brief statement (3-4 paragraphs is enough) about what would happen if you didn’t hold back and went all the way for this goal or desire.
3. Make a list of three things that you in the way of you accomplishing this desire.
4. Write three action steps toward your desire that you could accomplish right now.
5. Make a commitment to do at least do these three things. No more and no less-just these three things.
Observe what happens to the obstacles that were in your way. Sometimes they will diminish or change. Sometimes they will completely eliminate themselves. These obstacles are replaced with other seemingly impossible and impassable things.
Once you experience the “changing of your obstacles” from this expercise, you will certainly come to realize two things:
1. Challenges, problems, and desires will continually be in the way of your desires.
2. Should you continue to not hold back and to give it your all; obstacles will disappear, change or diminish on the way to accomplishing your desires.
This is the same for all successful people. Our success grew bigger and bigger because we faced our challenges, obstacles, and insurmountable odds while upgrading our lives to the next level.
One of my favorite sayings that I like to share with my audiences is, “The level of success for any person is directly proportional to that individual’s level of courage.” Always remember that your courage does not relate to a lack of fear, but to doing things in spite of fear. You want to give your all and not hold back.
As the first pilot to fly solo across the Pacific Ocean, Amelia Earhart, proudly stated, “The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.”
Do not hold back. Not in your life or with your dreams. Do not hold back at all and see what will happen. You will amaze yourself at the level of success and the new power you will rapidly achieve.
Sincerley Yours,
Dr. Michael J. Duckett
Are you feeling discouraged because you have not achieved the level of success you desire? Dr. Michael J. Duckett has dedicated his career to helping people overcome their fear of success and make tremendous strides with whatever may be holding someone back. For more information: goal setting