This month we’re talking about turning our backs on all the messages of ‘danger’ that we are bombarded with. This exercise, from Embracing Uncertainty, can help us set boundaries so that the negativity can’t affect us. For a while in my own personal growth, I drastically lowered the amount of…
Category: Personal Development
A Children’s ‘What If’ Game
A fun party game is asking crazy ‘what if’ questions and creating playful, entertaining answers. Questions like, “What if unicorns are real,” or “What if you could surf on sand?” However, ‘what if’ questions can become a problem internally when your inner Chatterbox starts asking them from a place of…
I Will Worry Tomorrow
In Embracing Uncertainty, Susan offers this exercise to help us get past the ‘what if’ fears and stop worrying. THE I’LL WORRY TOMORROW EXERCISE The attempt to control the future and the demand to be in charge of everything in our lives sentences us to a daily existence obsessed with…
Being a First-Hand Person
In this month’s article, we talked about how silence and solitude can help you learn to be in touch with your inner self, but it can also be a great way to understand what you really believe. The article uses a quote from essayist William Deresiewicz in a speech he…
How Can We Go From Pain to Power?
Going hand-in-hand with talking about our comfort zone, is Susan’s Pain-to-Power chart. We can’t go from a place of pain to a feeling of power without going from stagnation to growth, from comfort zone to possibility. Susan explains that feeling fear is not really the point when it comes to…
Expand Your Horizons by Doing It Anyway
“We generate fears while we sit. We overcome them by action.” Dr. Henry Link There is nothing like being comfy and cozy in our comfort zones. Right? The problem with that is, of course, that we can’t change or grow if we hold on to our comfort zones. As Susan…
There is No Such Thing as Making a Mistake
Do you feel like you’ve made a big mistake? Do you feel like you have taken the wrong path in life? Turns out, that is not a possibility. You only think you are wrong. If you change the way you think about an experience, you can see that while the…
There Are No Mistakes When You Course Correct
In Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway, Susan taught us about how to make a No-Lose Decision. Part of that decision-making process is knowing that if you find you are not on the right path, you can change your mind and adjust your path to the place you need…
Anger Used for Good
This month we’re talking about flowing with the changes in our relationship with our spouse or partner and making sure our old-expectations are not creating friction. In The Feel the Fear Guide to Lasting Love, Susan offered this advice: PUT YOUR ANGER TO GOOD USE. Anger is a good clue…
A New Feel the Fear!
March 14th is fast approaching—the day the new edition of Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway comes out in the U.S.! To whet your appetite for this new edition, here is an excerpt. To preorder your copy—either in print or digital—click here. TRUTH 4 Not only am I going…