All right, ladies gentlemen, welcome back to another episode of the Action Academy podcast.

I'm your host, as always, Brian Lubin, bringing to the mindsets, the methods, and the actionable steps for you to earn freedom in your life and business.

The topic of today's show is going to be an exercise that you can do today to help you overcome your fear and your anxiety.

Now, let's put a definition to both of these terms real quick, because we both know what

they are, but sometimes it's hard to verbally articulate what they actually look like on paper, right?

So let's start with fear. My favorite definition for fear is actually the acronym F-E-A-R, which is

false evidence appearing real. And isn't that the irony of fear that nine times out of

ten, more like 9.9 times out of 10, what we're afraid of never even comes to fruition. So we spend

all of our energy and effort being so worked up and wound up over something that hasn't even

happened in reality. And what's even worse is when

we're so afraid and so anxious of a certain outcome that we actually manifest it and bring it

into our present day reality. That, my friends, is called a self-fulfilling prophecy. And this is

kind of the situation that you see whenever you have people that are just inherently negative, 24-7,

things just seem to go wrong for them. And then you have the other person who's annoyingly

optimistic, the podcast host, and everything just seems to work out in their favor, 24-7, right?

So now that we've defined fear, let's get into anxiety. And anxiety is the

inability to live in the present. That's it. So anxiety is caused whenever we are projecting into

the future and coming up with made-up realities that do not exist, or when we're living in the

past. And we're imagining all these made-up realities that should have

happened as opposed to what actually happened. So both of these are symptoms of the same disease,

and the remedy for this disease is mindfulness. So this would be a meditative practice,

a gratitude practice, having trigger points to where when you walk through a door, you think of

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