2 simple fears that stop your success

Posted by Ben Lumley on Jul 28, 2010 in Beliefs, Creating Change, Overcoming Challenges | 21 comments

204/365 - Fear not, for I am with you always. Creative Commons License photo credit: Courtney Carmody // OpenEyesPhoto

“The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure.” Sven Goran Eriksson
As Marianne Williamson said of our deepest fears, "your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do." Yet we do shrink. We do hide ourselves because of our fears. We do hold ourselves back when we should step forward. But why?

Marianne said that our deepest fear is that we're powerful beyond measure. She was right. However, I believe there are two lesser fears that stop most people in their tracks and greatly hamper their success.

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This week’s Friday Personal Development Homework

Posted by Ben Lumley on Apr 9, 2010 in Success, Thinking Differently | 17 comments

Back to work Project 365 Day 351 Creative Commons License photo credit: Keith Williamson So here we are again, it's Friday homework time. Before I get into this week's 3 posts however, I just want to give you a quick heads up as to what is coming in May. I know we're only in the beginning of April really but I'm rather excited about it and wanted to share it with you all. You'll have noticed that there's been a lot of input from other people on 6aliens.com recently. This has been an awesome way for me to share the talents of others but it has also allowed me room to breathe while my speaking days have been coming thick and fast. So, because I'm super keen to write now I have some time, I'm going to be writing a series in May on how to produce consistent results in any area of your life. It won't be any old 2 or 3 part series but a series that runs for the whole month! I'm going to be dropping in 2 guest posts by some fabulous writers in May as well to give us all time to reflect and focus on something else for a bit. (These posts have already been chosen so if you'd like to submit a guest post for 6aliens.com I'll be posting it in June.) So that's what's coming. Stay tuned. It's going to be wicked!!! On to this week's homework then...

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