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If The Fear Fits.....Don't Wear It! by: Richard Vegas Undoubtedly one of the most challenging tasks we can face everyday is fighting the fear of failure. At one time or another every single person has had to face the fear of stepping out into an unfamiliar area and leaving his comfort zone and entering the twilight zone. In Over Your Head? Probably one of the biggest reasons we hesitate to step out of our boat and walk on the water is the thought, 'what if I sink?' Well, what if you do? What is the worse thing that will happen to you? Have you considered it? If you haven't, then you're not ready to take the plunge. That may sound overly simplistic, but here is something you need to take to heart! 'The devil you know is better than the devil you don't.' In other words, examine the details in the devil. The more you know the more the fear of failure will diminish. You will never have all the answers beforehand so just forget that. If you had all the answers, you would probably never fail. Michael Jordan said, 'I have failed over and over again in my life, and that is why I succeed!' Sounds like a contradiction doesn't it? You mean failure brings success? Yes! But, guess what? Success doesn't continue uninterrupted. Sooner or later the cycle turns and you experience another failure. Round And Round She Goes! Why is that? Cause I said so! Nah.. I lied; I just wanted to see if you were listening. It happens because everything in this universe goes in cycles. Life cycles to death, sowing cycles to reaping, failure cycles to success. You may remember the story of Babe Ruth. During his career he was the home run king of baseball. He hit over 700 home runs. He had another statistic that was not much publicized. He was also the strike out king. Yea, he struck out over 1400 times in his career. On one instance, a reporter was interviewing Babe Ruth and suggested that he slow up on his swing because he had fallen in the dirt several times during a game that day. Babe told the reporter to pity the poor pitchers and not him. Consider this: The most successful people in life are the ones who have failed the most often. The thing that distinguishes them from others is they are not afraid to risk it all. Remember this: 'it's one thing to talk about bull fighting; it's another thing to get in the ring with that bull!' Just Between You And Me And The Fence Post! A number of years ago I used to trade the futures markets. Now granted, it was certainly not as physically dangerous as bull fighting. But the excitement would send your adrenalin through the roof. To see some of the emotions that I and others would experience you would think that we did have '6
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