Can Fear Be a Positive Motivation?
When you think of self motivation, you think of the old “boot-strap” strategy. You fill yourself with as many positive thoughts as you can and tug … pulling yourself out of failures! If you make a habit of this, it can work. Unfortunately, fear often rears it’s “ugly” head and stops you in your tracks. Yet, the truth is, fear can play a positive role and I’ll show you how. The Original Role of Fear and Why it’s Outdated Most of the respected success and achievement leaders, past and present, warn us of the terrible effects of harboring fear in our lives. They tell us to overcome the fear of failure, success, embarrassment, and the new or the unknown. They will point to the “original” need for the emotion of fear as a self-preservation mechanism designed to save ourselves from that big bad wooly mammoth or saber toothed tiger. From these beginnings we’ve patterned ourselves to be fearful by nature. This fear then spills into many other non-threatening situations … like public speaki
