3 Steps to avoid fear & Seize the Day

Fundamental changes are occurring in business practices.  The “dog eat dog” competitive business model which has been accepted as “normal” is now being questioned.  A new business style which is less competitive and more creative is emerging as an alternative. 

The main difference between a negatively competitive business and a creative, MetaBusiness is how they handle fear.  Fight or flight is at the heart of the competitive business belief system.  Eat or be eaten, survival of the fittest.  Dive in and swim with the sharks is the order of the day.
 
When a highly competitive business person feels fear their automatic reaction is to either run away from the fear or fight the fear.  As a result, all kinds of fear-based practices can occur like greed, manipulation, lying, cheating, stealing, etc.
 
In a MetaBusiness fear is experienced but handled completely differently.  A creative business person feels the fear consciously and chooses not to react automatically with fight or flight.  They notice the restrictive effect fear has on their mind/body.  They know that it is not wise to take action while in that contracted fearful state.
 
Next time you feel fearful, uptight, afraid or that things will not work out, take these three steps and see what happens.
 
STEP 1:

• Do whatever it takes to move out of your identification with fear and move into and expanded state of relaxation and emotional calm.  Whatever gets your mind and feelings off the fear, do it. 
• Here is a list of possibilities: Take a walk, take a day off, exercise, talk to a friend, take a trip, do something creative... 

STEP 2:

• Focus on gratitude. 
• Be grateful for everything you hear and touch. 
• Be grateful for the big things and the little things. 
• Keep focusing on gratitude until you feel powerfully grateful. 
• Just thinking you are grateful is not feeling gratitude.

 
STEP 3:

• Be open to new, creative ideas which offer a creative solution to a difficulty that generates fear. 
• It’s hard to say where the creative idea will come from.  Just be open.  It could be a hunch or an intuitive flash.  A friend or stranger could say something that sparks a creative idea.
• You might be watching television, listening to Spotify or reading a book. 
• Who knows where it will come from.  Be open.  It will come.

 
 Looking for some motivation to move beyond FEAR?  Check out this quick video!