Fear of Success!

This week I want to share with you a truly thought provoking verse I came across whilst o delivering a Leadership training event and it has inspired me ever since.


“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”
Marianne Williamson
Used by Nelson Mandela in his inaugural speech

So what can we take from this?

One of the key challenges as human beings is we're not great at standing at the top of the tallest building and shouting about our achievements, what we do/have done and our future potential.
Most people think the biggest fear is the fear of failure…actually for many the fear of success is far greater. Whether they realise this at a conscious level is another thing!

I have feared success in the past and even now I still feel uncomfortable telling others about what I have achieved and what I am going to achieve for fear of what the person might think. There is an element of believing that I do not deserve all this success and that I won’t be able to handle it! These fears developed during my childhood when I was brought up to believe that sharing my successes with others was boasting about myself which was not a good thing and could result in things being taken away. The first step to overcoming this fear of success is to recognise that it exists within you. The next is to look at how this fear or belief is limiting you now.

So a couple of thought provoking questions:

 Are you playing small?
 Are you truly realising your REAL potential?
 If not what might you be doing to sabotage your own success?
 Are there actions that you’ve been putting off that that could positively accelerate your success?

Boldness has genius…go do it now! And remember the Universe will only give you what you can handle.

Here’s to a fun, fearless life!

Success

Bring on free internet access in all Hotels. During my stay in Estonia I was able to access the internet free of charge any time of day and unlimited access. The Estonians are way ahead of us with 97% of the population using the internet for business and banking etc. The government wants to make the city of Tallin a wi-fi area so that everyone can access the internet anywhere. People can sit in the park and browse.

It certainly makes keeping in touch with my clients so much easier and it only takes a few minutes each day to check e-mails and respond. Marvellous. A success all round as was my visit to the beautiful city of Tallin. Highly recommended and if you go make sure to buy a Tallin card which gives you access to all sorts of tourist attractions and gives a huge saving. Another success.

In fact my success diary is filling up fast which is such a good feeling. Do you keep a success diary? I recommend that too. Just take a few minutes each day or week to reflect on what went well and record it. Then celebrate your success no matter how big or small. Get used to that feeling of happiness and joy so that you can create more of that good feeling in your life at anytime. As a general rule we rarely take time out to stop and look at what we have achieved and how far we have progressed. And we are even less likely to celebrate. Do you remember the last time you had a celebration? Go back there now and remember what you saw, heard and felt? Oh yes doesn’t that feel fantastic! So the next time you have a success remember to celebrate and recreate that feeling again and again so that it becomes quite natural to feel good. In fact feeling good is natural, anything else is a sign of resistance to what comes naturally.

Here’s to feeling good!

Noelyne
www.noelyne.com