I will share it with my friends.

Cheers

What a great topic. You inspired me to write an article on our blog that goes into this with a medium-size, fine tooth comb from the point-of-view of working with what we all have available internally.

What appears to limit forward movement in any area of life, is worth examining for many reasons! If you were on a trip and found yourself on a road that leads to a dead-end, you wouldn’t just stop and say, “Well, that’s it. I’m done. This is the end…” There are always answers. They show up when we’re asking the right questions.

Great question Paul. Kudos for bringing up this topic and thank you for the inspiration! If you’d like to read my related article – you can find it here: http://innercodeschool.com/why-people-dont-do-what-they-say/

– Andi

Thank you for the insightful information. I was referred to you by Andi Mac from the Inner Code School after reading her article called “Why-people-don’t-do-what-they-say” where she referenced your article! It is fascinating to read the different perspectives on how humans behave and interact. I would have to agree with Andi based on my personal experiences and turning observations around several times that the challenge is great than fear itself or fear of success….it’s conflict! In my business relationships as an entrepreneur I even find myself occasionally getting “stuck” and unless I stop myself and start observing the conflict that is occurring (often I don’t even realize it), I may feel the fear, but once I realize the conflict then POOF! the challenge tumbles down like an old brick wall.

I noticed with time that I am bad in pursuing long-term goals, it is also the process, not the goals, I can set up goals very quickly! Also to set up process, not difficult for me, but I do not want to set up too many steps. A lot of steps it is what kills me! I am very good in accomplishing short tasks that require 5seconds- 5 minutes, etc. But when it comes to putting in hours, hours & days, well … hard.

Now, you may laugh at me, I have a very long term major goal which is related to space exploration. In order to achieve it, I will have to certainly build a step by step process with phases, etc, and then I can get to shorter tasks that I am very happy to achieve.

In fact I did not notice my deficiency of “difficult to achieve long term goals” for me, it was not that striking until recently when I took a quiz that pointed out that was my deficiency!! Then, I guess I’ve got to work on this….
Cheers
Cory

You have got some talent on writing, could I use this article on my blog? It would be great read to others.

Thanks

Paul, in a way you’re right. Unless I want to learn how can knowledge come to me. So there a certain ‘action’ precedes knowledge. But my comment was in response to what Sean said above. There are moments in life when you have the minimum knowledge to want to do something but lack of finance prevents you to take action.

Of course I always remind myself that there is never an end to learning, and generally speaking, that learning comes only because of action.

The successful marketers and entrepreneurs I know tend to experiment lots. They all have failures, maybe as many as successes, but when they do, they keep moving. Also, they learn how to test at an affordable level, so failures don’t hurt as much – if at all.

Paul

You call it fear of success, but I think in our minds it is fear of failure. It takes alot of courage to jump of the treadmill of a comfort and step into the unknown. It seems that this is in part driven by society’s conditioning, to “hang in there” because things will get better. In most cases they don’t and people don’t take the bold step. They wake up one day and wonder for how many years more…. then its too late and society checks you into an old age home.

As a society we need to experiment more and see failure as a temporary set back but a valuable training ground. If you can stand up and move along, you have eliminated one of the options on the plan. Personally, I have learnt more from my failures, which has allowed me to move on to greater things.

You have a pretty name.

I’ve heard of Gary Craig. I’ll check it out.

Thanks for the reply and enjoy a bang-up weekend.

DocMercer