Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway
Maxwell Leadership Podcast
John Maxwell
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 7 June 2023
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Today, John Maxwell is going to teach you ten ways to constructively face your fears.
A few key points from this lesson:
- Most fear is not based upon fact; it is based upon feeling
- Leaders should focus on things they can control, not things they can’t control
- Feed the right emotion and starve the wrong one
After John’s lesson, Mark Cole and Chris Goede join to talk about helpful ways you can apply this lesson to your life and leadership.
Our BONUS resource for this episode is the “Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway Worksheet,” which includes fill-in-the-blank notes from John’s teaching. You can download the worksheet by visiting MaxwellPodcast.com/fear and clicking “Download the Bonus Resource.”
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Maxwell Leadership Podcast. This is the podcast that adds value to leaders |
| 0:22.4 | who multiply value to others. My name is Mark Cole and today John Maxwell is going to |
| 0:27.9 | teach on 10 ways to constructively face your fears. After John's lesson, Chris Goady will |
| 0:35.2 | join me so we can apply the lesson to your life and to our leadership. If you'd like to watch |
| 0:41.3 | this episode on YouTube, please go to MaxwellPodcast.com forward slash YouTube. If you'd like to download |
| 0:49.4 | the free worksheet that accompanies John's lesson, visit MaxwellPodcast.com forward slash |
| 0:55.4 | fear and click the bonus resource button. All right, let's get ready to face our fears to feel that |
| 1:02.5 | fear and do something about it. Here is John Maxwell. I'm going to talk to you about how to |
| 1:12.3 | constructively face fear. Leadership is what? Talk to me. Influence. All right, there you are. The |
| 1:17.2 | main reason for facing our fears is in the box. And I put it in the box because this is the whole |
| 1:22.4 | reason for the rest of this lesson. Fear undermines personal dynamism. Now watch this. Instead of being a |
| 1:30.1 | person who knows where he is going and admits an enthusiasm that motivates others, you perpetually |
| 1:36.4 | apologize and thus decrease your influence in a group. Fear really handicaps you as a leader. |
| 1:44.0 | Okay, what it is, it takes away your charisma. It'll take away your charisma. Okay, how do you |
| 1:48.8 | handle fear? Number one, you ready? Discover the foundation of fear. That's where we start. Fear is not |
| 1:56.6 | based upon fact. It's based usually upon feeling. In fact, let me give you an acroostic that will help you |
| 2:03.0 | understand and get a handle on fear. Fear is false expectations appearing real. That's basically |
| 2:12.4 | what fear is. It's false expectations appearing real. It's something that you expect that may be |
| 2:17.2 | completely wrong, but you believe it so much that it appears real to you and paralyzes you. |
| 2:23.1 | University of Michigan did a survey fear in relationship to reality. They said 60% of our fears |
| 2:29.6 | are totally unwarranted. There was a thing that we fears never going to kind of pass. 20% of our |
| 2:36.0 | fears are in the past. In other words, it's already done. It's completely out of our control. And 10% |
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