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Tim Ferris’ Eye-Opening Approach to Help You Overcome Your Fear of Taking Action and Achieve Your Goals
Fear-setting: Define your fears instead of your goals
Do you also spend days, weeks, and even months plotting a strategy, but then at the eleventh hour, you develop cold feet and back down? Like after rehearsing the perfect message for the 7th time, you pick up a phone to call someone. Then an excuse bubbles up inside your head, and you put the phone back down.
They may be asleep, you tell yourself. You kick yourself hard, or you tell yourself you’ll try again later.
Sometimes, when we want to take those bold steps we have always wanted to, fear tries to hold us down and bind us up. It has an uncanny way of wrapping itself in different packages, making it hard to detect. Fear has a way of hiding behind the voice of reason, the wisdom of logic, and the intuition of common sense.
But there is always an escape route. In a 2015 TED talk, for example, author Tim Ferris outlines a simple system he used to overcome some fears of taking a one-month vacation from his first business.
How does he recommend we overcome the fear of taking action?
