How to take advantage of your greatest fears

If you want to become a better and bigger version of yourself, then you have to face your fears, not run away from them. That is when success comes to pass; not when you are cozy in your comfort zone, successful growth starts when you get out of your comfort zone. When you face your fears, it gives you this strength and confidence which you thought you never had in you; fear is nature’s way to tell you to raise the bar to higher standards of living.

When you become aware that your greatest fear is meant to develop you into a better and bigger person, you will be able to then start using your fear to your own advantage.

See a few ways that you can benefit from your greatest fears:

1. Unleash Your Full Potential

Fear can stop you from progressing. Thoughts and actions that are lead by fear always fall short of your full potential. Feeling fear, would be your first cue to know that on the other side, there lies a better you.

2. Move Faster Than Your Greatest Fear

Remember that fear is always counter-intuitive, that means, fear is urging you to move forward when you ideally feel to stop. Fear is the one feeling that actually can encourage you to go ahead. When you pause mid-sentence, stop in your tracks and begin to think that if you take another step, you will fail, you tend to start feeling fear.

3. Use Fear as an Incentive to Move Ahead

When you live a compromised life, in your business or in your personal life, you start to feel weak and less confident about yourself. When you feel small, you are actually delaying the time when life wants to satisfy you. When you embrace your fear, although, not letting it win, that’s when you begin to feel more confident and when you overcome fear, you can increase your confidence level every step of the way.

4. When in Fear, Analyze

The fear you feel is never without reason. Analyze what you are afraid of and why. When you spend time analyzing your fear, it can give you the chance to answer some unanswered questions and turn that negative mind-block into a positive step ahead.

5. Use Fear as a Safety Belt

When you feel fear about something, it is a cue to pay more attention to your situation. Fear can actually tell you that ‘it’s now or never’ and other times, it can even urge you to ‘sleep on it’. Fear is your cue to stop and think, negotiate and plan your next step.

6. Get Positive Energy from Your Fear

Everything you ever need is on the other side of your fear. When you treat fear as as a pathway of a new opportunity, which is a positive experience, it can give you a lot of positive energy to move forward.

7. Fear, as a Stepping Stone of Wisdom

When you do things you previously thought you can never do, it forces you to experience new things, you then become wiser and not limited to your growth. Fear can be linked to your instinct. Most times its hard to listen to your gut feelings, but when you feel fear, it is time to take note of it and then take action.