VICTORY FAVORS THE FEARLESS
HOW TO DEFEAT THE 7 FEARS THAT HOLD YOU BACK
Darrin Donnelly
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Copyright 2019 by Darrin Donnelly.
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Contents
Introduction
You become what you think about most.
Neuroscientists tell us that our brains are rewired based on the intensity and repetition of the thoughts we think. This is not a metaphor. The neural pathways in your brain are actually rewired by the consistent thoughts you think. The more often and the more intensely you think about something, the more proficiently those positive or negative thoughts drive every subsequent thought you think, decision you make, and action you take. If you think negative thoughts over and over again, your mental outlook will quite literally get stuck in a rut.
Everything you do follows your mental outlook. That is how you become what you think about, as psychologists say. And that is why its so important to protect your mindset and proactively take control of your thoughts.
Fearful thinking is one of the most damaging and destructive thought patterns you can fall into.
Fears are usually repetitive you tend to ruminate about them over and over again. Fears are also intense they can weigh you down and make it hard to think about anything else. This combination of frequency and intensity is why fear is such a damaging emotion.
Your fears hold you back from living the life you were born to live. If youre ever going to achieve success, happiness, and peace of mind, you must first defeat your fears.
Fear is the strong, unpleasant emotion that expects something bad to happen. It is the root cause of every negative thought that eats away at your self-confidence and every worry that keeps you up at night.
Fear is the voice that makes you doubt yourself. It is the voice that tells you to quit, that you shouldnt bother trying, and that you dont have what it takes to be successful.
Being in a state of fear makes you tight, timid, and indecisive. It makes you worry incessantly about all the things that could go wrong in the future.
Whenever you find yourself worrying, stressing, procrastinating, or questioning your potentialfear is getting the best of you.
The good news is that fear can be defeated. You can win the inner battle against fear and this book will show you how to do it.
Specifically, there are seven common fears you must learn to defeat if you want to live a happy and successful life:
1) The fear of what other people think.
2) The fear of change.
3) The fear of making the wrong decision.
4) The fear of missing out on something better.
5) The fear of not being good enough.
6) The fear of failure being permanent.
7) The fear of being due for a setback.
In some form or another, every major worry and self-destructive thought is rooted in one of these seven fears.
Like previous books in the Sports for the Soul series, this book is an inspirational fable set in the world of sports. Its the story of a boxer, Mickey McGavin, who must learn to defeat the seven fears that are holding him backin the ring and in life.
Each time he learns to defeat one of these debilitating fears, it propels him closer to his ultimate goal: a shot at the heavyweight championship of the world. Mickey learns from a wise trainer that he must first defeat the fear in his mind if hes going to have any chance of defeating his opponent in the ring.
This is a story about what happens when a man unleashes his true potential by overcoming his fears. Its a story about how to become fearless in the face of adversity.
Boxing is the metaphor for life in this story, but the techniques used for defeating fear are universal. No matter your profession, fear is your ultimate opponent. The boxer who fears losing his next fight must contend with the exact same fears the salesperson has about the next sale, the speaker has about the next speech, the entrepreneur has about the next product launch, or you may have about taking the risk and going after your biggest dreams.
To defeat fear, you must have a fighters mentality. You must attack fear head-on. Thats the only way to beat it.
I believe there is an inner power locked inside every person and the only way to unleash it is to develop a fearless attitude that dreams big and attacks life.