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By Brian Tracy
The First
Responsibility of Leadership
The step-by-step development
of courage in yourself is the first responsibility
of leadership. The second responsibility is to develop
and instill courage in others, your staff, your
children, your spouse, your friends. But you must begin with
yourself because you can't give away something that you don't
have. You can only encourage others to the degree to which
you experience and demonstrate courage yourself. You set the
tone and determine the standard.
Courage
Is Mastery of Fear
Here's the first rule: "Everyone
is afraid." You're afraid, I'm afraid, everyone you meet
is afraid in some way, often in many ways. As Mark Twain said,
"Courage is not absence of fear; it is control of fear,
mastery of fear." The brave person is the person who
acts in spite of his or
her fear, who faces the fear, feels the fear and
moves forward regardless.
Confront
Your Fears
Here's the second rule: "Fears diminish
and lose their power over you as you confront them and move
toward them; conversely, every time you back away from a fear
situation, the fear grows and becomes more powerful."
Make
It A Habit
The only way to develop courage is to
consciously and continuously make a habit of confronting your
fear of treating every fear-inducing situation as a challenge
and as an opportunity to become stronger, more resolute.
Do
The Thing You Fear
Here's the third rule:
"Do
the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain."
Psychologists call this the process of
"systematic desensitization," doing it over and
over until it holds no fear for you at all.
Many businesspeople who have been so
afraid of public speaking that they couldn't lead a silent
prayer in a phone booth have used this process of eliminating
fear.
Dr.
Mercola's EFT Expansion
When you apply effectively EFT
fear doesn't stand a chance. Fear is one of the easiest things
that EFT can handle.
Some simple statements to use in your
taping sequence would be:
Even though I am afraid of (whatever
you are afraid of) I choose to be calm and confident.
Remember to say calm and confident
with great emphasis each time as it will greatly help the
effectiveness.
Also remember that if you are in a
public situation and you are uncomfortable about tapping
in public you can just separately apply gentle pressure
on each of the points and say the statement silently.
I believe the full sequence stated
aloud is probably more effective, but I have had success
with both methods.
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