[M626]Monroes What Do All The People Know

Many of the things that you need to do in order to become
successful can be quiet a stretch on your comfort zone. They
may make you nervous. You may have self doubts. You may be
down right scared by them. So what about the people who do
become successful? Don't they have these negative feelings?
The answer is that they have a secret way of breaking
through these obstacles and I'm going to share that secret
with you right now.

The truth is that the people who achieve great success in
life are human just like you and me. Most of them experience
all the nervousness, fears and self doubt that you and I
feel whenever we have to stretch our comfort zone. The
difference between those who overcome this obstacle and
those who fall by the wayside is that the successful people
feel the fear and do it anyway.

I remember the first time I had to speak at a business
seminar. I had never spoken in public before and I was
terrified. I didn't have butterflies in the stomach I had
eagles flying around in there. My whole body was shaking.
But I had made a decision that developing the skill of
seminar speaking would greatly enhance my business prospects
and so I keep my mind firmly focused on my desired outcome
and I stood in front of the audience and delivered my
speech.

Each time I spoke at a seminar the nerves were a little
reduced until eventually those nerves changed into
excitement and enjoyment. Now I love seminar speaking and it
has been my major activity over the last ten years.

Do you see what happened? There are three elements that
combine to allow you to overcome comfort zone stretching
obstacles.

The first of these elements is to accept that you are human
and as such it is natural to experience feelings of tension
and stress when you are stretching yourself into new
territory.

These feelings are the filter system that sort the winners
from the also rans. Look forward to them because if you are
experiencing them then it is evidence that you are
stretching your comfort zone and attempting to grow into a
more fully developed person. These feelings aren't your
enemy they are proof that you are alive and growing. If you
never experience these feelings then you are never
challenging yourself, which means that you will never become
all you can be.

The second element is to keep so strongly focused on your
desired result that you find the courage to push through
your fears and self doubt.

The secret to moving through to the next stage of personal
growth is having a strong desire for an out come that will
pull you through. Imagine that you have a steel cable
connecting you to your goal and that goal is winding the
cable in, drawing you closer and closer to your desired
outcome. You may swing this way or that on the cable but
inch by inch that powerful goal is drawing you to it. If
your goal is powerful enough then it will give you all the
strength you need to feel the fear and do it anyway.

The third element in successfully stretching your comfort
zone is to reinterpret the feelings you are experiencing so
that they become feelings of excitement and aliveness.

The difference between a tickle and an irritation is not the
signal the nerves send but rather it is the interpretation
the brain puts on those signals. So it is with fear. You can
learn to interpret these feelings as feelings of excitement
and exhilaration. If you feel the fear and do it anyway you
will discover that the very things that once produced fear
in you now become the things that give you the greatest
pleasures.

So remember the next time you have to stretch your comfort
zone that there is a three step solution that will help you
not only overcome the obstacle, but even more importantly,
will help you become a greater person. It is these continual
stretches of comfort zone, and the stronger character that
they build, which is the greatest reward in any successful
journey in this amazing life we have.