Hustle Your Way Forward - 7 Steps to Taking Fearless Action

Hustling in business is about recognizing opportunities and assets around you and getting the absolute most from them as you act to create results. Sometimes maximizing the opportunities and assets is a matter of tactical choice. But most often it is about both strategy and tactics as you make use of what's currently available to you and influence your access to other assets all while creating value in your ever evolving world.

"The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear." - Nelson Mandela

Fearlessness is a mindset. It is confidence and faith based on the results of prior action and learning from contained failures. It is about releasing negative thinking and fear in positive ways and then focusing on positive thinking to create options and opportunities to live a fuller potential in your endeavors. It is about finding joy and energy in transforming challenges into possibilities. All winners in life find a way to get through their fear quickly and transform that energy into confident action.

"People who ask confidently get more than those who are hesitant and uncertain. When you've figured out what you want to ask for, do it with certainty, boldness and confidence." - Jack Canfield

Here are the 7 steps to taking fearless action in 5 minutes or less:

1. Acknowledge that fear is part of the process. Consider that maybe the beginning of all great action is feeling the fear. And as Dale Carnegie said, "Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy."
2. Create margin in the most important areas of your life so that you can respond, not react. Stephen R. Covey wrote about the importance of the gap between stimulus and response twenty years ago in his best selling book, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. In the last twenty years, technology and the pace of change has made it more important than ever to make sure we have margin in the right areas to actively respond instead of reactively acting.
3. Find a productive way to release the anxiety associated with the fear. Sometimes that means talking about it to get it off your chest. Other times it might be the release you get through vigorous exercise. Whatever works for you, find it and use it.
4. Step into the fear to create options and possibilities. When you take your challenge head on with the right mindset, you can create positive energy that helps opens up options, possibilities, and opportunities.
5. Visualize success and adaption to challenges. Get a clear picture of what success will look like in facing this fear. Know that this will be your ultimate outcome. Then see yourself adapting and adjusting to meet the many inevitable challenges along the way.
6. Create a sense of confidence. Think of all the things you have accomplished in the past. Remind yourself that failure is just something to learn from when it is contained and minimize through forethought. Pretend to be 100% sure in your decision.
7. Take Action and adjust as necessary. Know that you are 100% successful at making the right decisions and making your decisions right if you are persistent and determined.

"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do." - Eleanor Roosevelt

Copyright 2009 Jon L. Iveson, Ph.D. and Sandy Seago

About the Author:
Jon L. Iveson, Ph.D., The Champion's Coach, is a Gazelles Certified Coach who helps individuals and companies survive and thrive in tough times. Sandy Seago is an entrepreneur with 20 years of entrepreneurial success and owner of TCG Solutions.

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