Awareness is the greatest agent of change. Your response to stress is your body's alarm system while the experience of fear is how you interpret the stress response.

Your awareness of fear is what enables you to make a choice and it's in the moment of decision "to overcome fear", that new possibilities arise and opportunity for something different emerges. Once clear and free of fear, you can reflect and learn from your experience.

So, how do you overcome fear when you are in the middle of it?

5 Simple Steps to Overcome Fear

1. Stop Action and Clear - whatever you are doing in the moment of fear - STOP. Ground yourself in the here and now by connecting with your feet and taking a deep breath. Slowing the exhalation down by half the speed. Repeat the deep breathing 3 times or more until you feel you have regained control.

2. Enlist Passion - Get in touch with desire and connect to your values - what is important to you. What do you want to create. What are you passionate about? Passion powers performance...what is it you feel emotionally charged to do? What do you want to see realized?

3. Envision and Expect - A vision for yourself and your future, provides a focus. The clearer the vision, the more detailed and real, the more you will believe in it and in your ability to attain it. The more aligned with your values, the stronger your belief and the clearer your expectations.

4. Take Inspired Action - small deliberate steps that take you in the direction of your goal build momentum. To succeed you must sustain focus and follow through with consistent action. Acknowledging achievements energizes and renews commitment and helps sustain focus on your dream vision. Losing focus, being distracted or discouraged are challenges and threats to success.

5. Persistence - Determined to succeed you will never give up! Committed, your vision becomes clearer with the completion of every action. Results provide a feedback mechanism to help you make adjustments as you go.

"Desire without expectation is wishful thinking.

Expectation without action is false hope.

Desire, expectation and persistent, step by step, action are an unbeatable team!"

When worked together, these five important steps can help you overcome fear and move into inspired action to help you realize your dreams and live a happy and fulfilling life.

Being Pro-Active leads to Fear-lessness

Our patterns of thought and behaviour is what gets us stuck. Creating new supportive ways of being and doing is what coaching facilitates. The Kaizen Coaching Model provides a tool to help gain control of the situation in three inter-connected steps:

• Assess the situation and accept reality - Is the fear you are experiencing a response to a real threat or F.alse E.vidence A.ppearing R.eal?
• Consider your options and choose
• Take empowered action.

Learn more about the Kaizen Coaching Model and how you can put it to work in your life.

In the world of observation, chance only favours the prepared mind. Louis Pasteur

Luck is where preparation meets opportunity. Kurt Fisher

© Julia von Flotow, May 2, 2011

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