The two biggest enemies of success are fear and doubt. They hold most back from taking action.
The interesting thing about fear and doubt, however, is that they never go away, no matter how successful you become.
So, if fear and doubt exist for the successful, why don’t they hold them back from taking action?
The problem isn’t fear and doubt. The problem is habit. Successful people simply make a habit of taking action, despite the fear and doubt. They habitualize action.
Only by taking action do you gain the experiences of facing obstacles and overcoming them, facing mistakes and learning from them, taking risks and surviving failure.
Through action you gain life experiences that become a reservoir you can reach into during a time of need.
When you face obstacles, that mental reservoir in your mind says, we’ve faced a similar obstacle before a few years ago and this is the way around it.
When you face an uncertainty, that mental reservoir in your mind says, we’ve faced a similar uncertainty before and this was the mistake we made and need to avoid.
When you face a risk, that mental reservoir in your mind says, we’ve taken a similar risk before and we survived.
Courage grows through action because actions create a mental reservoir of historical experiences and those historical experiences give you the courage to take future action.
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