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The Tom Ferry Podcast Experience

3 Questions for Courage | Mindset Monday

The Tom Ferry Podcast Experience

Tom Ferry

Education, Business, Self-improvement

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2021

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

What good has fear ever brought into your life? Fear holds us back from doing the things we love, the things we were born to do. Whenever I face a potentially frightening situation, I ask myself three questions. You should too.

Transcript

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It's been said that 95% of the things that you fear in your life, the things that stop you,

0:04.7

the things that kill your joy, kill your future, kill your potential, the fear that you

0:10.3

experience on a daily basis, 95% of that BS never happens.

0:16.0

And yet, how many people do we know that they kill their joy, they kill their potential,

0:20.4

they kill their goals, they kill their dreams because of the possibility of some fear that's

0:25.9

out there in the marketplace?

0:27.8

I learned a long time ago.

0:29.4

There's three questions that I ask myself.

0:31.4

When I face a challenging moment, a challenging opportunity, something that even actually scares

0:35.4

me a little bit, makes me a little bit nervous.

0:37.1

I ask myself question number one, what is the worst case scenario?

0:41.6

What is the worst thing that could happen here?

0:43.9

Am I going to die?

0:45.5

No.

0:46.5

By asking yourself that question and accepting the worst case scenario, you move beyond

0:50.6

the fear.

0:51.6

It is an awareness thing, my friends.

0:53.5

We've got to start becoming aware of the BS stories that are going on inside of our

0:58.6

head that are killing our goals, killing our dreams, killing our potential, and you're

1:03.6

buying into that stupid noise, that stupid self-talk, ask yourself that first question, what's

1:09.0

the worst case scenario?

1:10.2

Like, really?

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