For many years I have been making the point that we don't overcome fear by thinking our way out of it. We overcome fear by action. It is what we do on a daily basis that makes all the difference. In today's episode I talk about the impact of a powerful quote from Napoleon Hill and how it can help all of us face our fears and move forward with our lives.

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We're going to talk about a quote from one of the absolute giants

of the whole personal development movement, Napoleon hill, and Nepalian

is going to talk to us today about the thing that holds everybody back.

We're going to talk about fear, fear.

The worst of all enemies can be effectively.

By forced repetition of acts of courage.

All right.

One of the biggest principles that I teach, I teach it to my kids.

I try and teach it to myself.

It's taken me years to master it is feelings, follow actions.

If I could just give you that one gift.

So many people go through life thinking that they will do it.

When they feel right when they feel confident in doing it, then they'll do

the thing, whatever the thing is, job promotion, marriage, career, starting

a business, whatever it is, right?

So many people waste their life thinking, well, I'm going to start

the second that I feel ready to do it.

Feelings, follow actions.

Napoleon hill is telling us a few key things here.

Number one, fear.

Greatest of all enemies.

So.

For most of us, we're not going to be held back really by stupidity

or lack of resources or, you know, Major character flaws.

Most of us get held back in any carrier by the one thing I do fear, right?

We're afraid.

And that fear can be mild.

It can be extreme.

It can be subtle.

It can be in your face, but fear is just this self-preservation thing that we've

evolved with as a species that used to serve an incredibly useful purpose

when we were getting eaten by everyday.

But nowadays our fear mechanisms are pretty much the same as they

were 300,000 years ago, but the environments changed, but we can

still get easily triggered by fear.

So what Hill's saying in this message is simply, you don't

think your way out of this.

So right now I'm talking to you as you're listening or watching, if

you're afraid of something right now, and, and you think that you'll

be able to think your way through it, you may be waiting a long time.

Thinking is really important.

And I love to think actually I recommend it.

I really do, because I think there's times when we need to really carefully

think about important decisions and issues in our lives, but when we're

really confronting things that are fearful for us it's action that matters

and not Napoleon hill says today is forced repetition of acts of courage.

I can't remember if I said this last week, but long story short.

Uh, recently I jumped off a bridge.

I'm gonna tell you this last week.

Um, can't remember, but I was with a family and it was weird, a big

holiday destination a few months ago, and it's illegal to jump

off this bridge 365 days a year.

And one day a year, it was Australia's national day.

The police allowed people to jump off it or they turn a blind.

So I'm like my kids, like, I've got to go down to five

o'clock everyone starts jumping.

You got to be there, dad.

And I'm like, yeah, we'll go down and check it out.

And then they go and all day, my kids are like, you're going to jump you to jump.

And I'm like, yeah, jump course.

I'll jump.

Why wouldn't I jump?

Then I saw the bridge.

It was like, you know, it's about six to seven meters above

the water and it's open ocean.

Right.

So you're just jumping off this perfectly good bridge into an ocean.

You know, how many bull sharks were in there?

I don't know.

But I get to this thing and you climb over the railing and you're

sitting there and all of a sudden I'm like, uh, what have I done?

Uh, somebody, you would know, I had a really bad accident a few years ago.

I almost died.

And, uh, so I've got titanium in both wrists destroyed both arms and

I've got titanium and both sides.

And I'm sitting on this bridge thinking.

Um, if I hit this wrong, I don't want to be back in hospital with these hands.

And, but here's the thing, right?

There's hundreds and hundreds of people there watching.

And I'm the, you know, the, the middle aged dude on the bridge.

And then my kids, especially my youngest daughter, Stephanie, she's

like, she's like big personality.

She's like jump, jump.

And she's like, build it up the crowd.

She's a whole crash, go jump, jump, jump.

And I'm guy, uh, wait till you get home and eight.

So finally out of this moment of first thing, I was, I was genuinely afraid.

So FIA was, I think FIA was present.

It was real, it was there.

So I'm not going to tell you, I was just like, oh, this is all good.

I wasn't, I was afraid finally, by the grace of God, I just jumped off

and it was the coolest thing ever.

It was the best.

It was like this rush on the way down.

And then you hit the water and you have that sudden moment where

you realize you're not dead.

And then you're like, I'm not dead.

That's a good thing.

And the bars, like I know the chemicals in your brain, the

endorphins, the dopamine hit.

And I just literally like swam out of there so quick.

And it wasn't because the bull sharks, it was because I just want to do it again.

So I just kept doing it again, long story.

I hope you've enjoyed listening to it, but my point is that Pauline Hills, right?

It was the forced repetition of active acts of courage that brought me to

a very new experience and a really awesome experience and a great.

So, I just want to tell you that all the good stuff is on the other

side of what you're afraid of.

Now.

I know that sounds like an Instagram post.

I know that sounds like a t-shirt slogan, but it is true.

I mean, I've been in this space now for what?

Maybe close to 30 years, all the good stuff is on the other side of what you're.

It just is, I don't mean do frivolous things or dangerous things.

And I don't mean have conversations with people that they're not ready

for, but you feel you are, don't do that, but you know what I mean?

Right.

There'll be things in your life that are holding you back.

And I just want to encourage you that when you take that.

It's like the universe.

God just loves the leap.

God's just say, God, if they take the leap, it's going to be really cool.

But we're so afraid.

So I want to encourage you if you're afraid of something right now, and that

fear, isn't like a dangerous fear or a fear that's going to hurt other people.

It's just something personal to you.

I just wanna encourage you.

I want to tell you my bridge story and tell you to jump at the

right time when you feel ready.

We might not always feel ready, but it's worth doing this has gone too

long, but I just want to tell you that the actions come before the feelings.

And if we do the hard things that we don't think we can do the

feelings come after that, and life gets richer and you get better.

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My name is Jonathan Doyle.

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