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The Key to Success in Just One Step

Written on March 30, 2012 by George Krueger & Mary-Lynn Foster in Personal Growth

We recently talked about how to conquer a paralyzing pair of fears. We closed by implicitly sharing the key to success. Today, we want to make it explicit.

We constantly see overnight successes. Yesterday, they were just part of the crowd. Now, they are the new sensation.

From the outside looking in, it appears as if they had a meteoric rise to the top. But as we know, perceptions can be deceiving.

Look closer and you’ll see a lot of hard work. Is that the key to success?

It’s certainly part of the recipe. But it’s too complicated for our purposes here.

Upon deeper inspection, you realize that these overnight stars have usually been honing their craft for years. Is time the key to success?

Once again, it’s almost always part of the mix. It takes more than 10,000 hours as we’ve learned. But even this goes beyond the real key to success as we want to explain it today.

Is it vision or goal-setting? These are certainly important, but once again it goes beyond what we want to talk about today.

We want to keep it simple. What is the simple key to success in just one step?

That’s it! One step.

You can be a BIGG success if you just take one small step. That’s it!

Most people never really do. Or they do but then they don’t follow up with another one.

But you’re not most people. You’re a winner.

So like other people who reach BIGG success, you will take one small step, then another, and another.

You will take thousands upon thousands of step in pursuit of your dream life. But you’re not worried about how many steps it takes. You focus all of your attention on the next one.

One step at a time. One after another. Step after step, you will inch closer to the success you dreamed of.

You will face obstacles along the way. You may step over them, through them, or around them. It doesn’t matter. The results will be the same. You will get by them one step at a time.

You will get frustrated and even fearful at times. Don’t worry. Just take one small step.

You will grow tired. Take a break, relax, and refresh yourself. Then take one small step.

What one small step will you take today?

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Conquer This Paralyzing Pair of Fears

Written on March 26, 2012 by George Krueger & Mary-Lynn Foster in Personal Growth

Many people are too afraid to succeed. They are driven by the fear of failure.

The fear of the unknown is a frequent companion to this fear of failure. With this pair, it’s easy to get stuck like a wooly mammoth in a tar pit.

Only with humans, it leads to emotional death rather than a physical one.

BIGG success is about entrepreneuring your life – taking control to create the life of your dreams. Your life is your enterprise and you are the owner.

Do entrepreneurs experience this dismal duo – the fear of failure and the fear of the unknown?

Certainly.

As the entrepreneur of your life, how can you conquer these frightful fears? Let’s take them one at a time.

The fear of failure

You probably won’t really think about it this way. But you’ll feel it when it happens.

It will eat at you. You’ll have a sick feeling in the pit of your stomach. It will spur you to overcome inertia and take action.

Once you sense it, you will use the replacement technique. You will replace one fear with another.

Wait just a minute…isn’t fear something you need to stare down? Can fear be positive? Can fear drive you forward?

Absolutely.

You will replace your fear of failure with the fear of not trying.

More specifically, you’ll know you’re ready to do something BIGG when your fear of not trying overwhelms your fear of failure.

It’s really a conscious choice. You get to choose your regret.

The regret menu only has two items on it. You can regret what you did or you can regret what you didn’t do. Order one and it will be yours.

Most people don’t think about the second one. They are driven by the first. If they try something and fail, they’ll feel regret.

But both research and anecdotal evidence from people close to death show that regrets about what you didn’t do are tougher to overcome.

John Greenleaf Whittier said it best:

“For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, “It might have been.”

You’re not most people. You’re a winner. You will be driven by what might be.

You can live with failure. You cannot accept not trying.

But it’s more than just that…

The fear of the unknown

We live in incredibly uncertain and volatile times. It terrifies the average person.

But you’re no ordinary human being. You’re extraordinary.

You accept the fact that you can’t predict the future. You have to create it yourself.

This isn’t a naïve point-of-view. In fact, it’s quite sophisticated. Because with this realization, like all successful entrepreneurs, you focus on the downside.

More specifically, you work to limit the risk of trying something. You begin actively engaging your mind with how to make it work.

Note that, while you’re doing this, most people are still listing off all the reasons that it won’t work. They continue to convince themselves that they would be a failure. And they will be.

But you’re busy mitigating the risk. Once you get the downside to an acceptable level, you give your idea a try.

You start small. You test it. You’re still in the research & development stage.

You’re learning while most people are worrying. Learn. Grow. Prosper. It leads to BIGG success.

How did you conquer your fears?

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