Understanding the Steps Behind Fear Destruction and How to Create Desired Action

Steps for fear destruction:


When you feel the emotion of fear enter your mind, simply pause.

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A pause in time will carry away the initial flood of emotion.

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After the flood is gone, calmly ask…what needs to be done?

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Put each of your individual concerns on paper.

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They are now out of your head, and an individual solution can be developed for each one.


Even after a fear has been identified, and a solution developed, fear still doesn’t “disappear entirely.” It also doesn’t need to disappear entirely.
Remember that fear is so powerful that it is usually impossible to get rid of it entirely. Let’s look at our example above, where we discussed the fear of the property “not renting right away.” Even after applying the solution, and having more than enough cash reserves in place, the fear will still linger. Why? Because fear is a very powerful emotion, and it usually “sticks around” even after the solution has been implemented.

This is OK. Here is one of the most powerful things you will ever learn about fear:

There is no need to get rid of fear entirely.



It would be nice, but it’s truly impossible—so don’t even worry about that. You don’t need to get rid of it entirely. All you need to do is this…

1. Identify it, understand it, implement a solution, and reduce it…

2. To the point where you can get yourself to take the action that you desire.


This is all that is necessary. You don’t need to “get rid of your fear.” You just need to manage it, so that you can effectively reduce it beneath the “fear action threshold.” Once you reduce your fear beneath the fear action threshold, you will take action.



Wendy & Justin’s Advice on Fear: Our goal is not to get rid of fear entirely, for that is impossible. Our goal is to simply reduce our fear to the point where we will take action.





Excerpt taken from Making Hard Cash in a Soft Real Estate Market, Chapter 3, Pages 22-23.



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