FEAR

Fear is an intensely unpleasant emotion in response to perceiving or recognizing danger or threat.” For the past few weeks, I’ve been diving into the actual word. How does it relate to me? Our clients? Change in the business? Change in training? Family and relationships? All of these present some form of fear. 

Look up. Face the Fear. 

Have you taken the time to deal with your fears? You have an ironman coming up next year, you have never participated in one. Are you worried about a 26.2-mile run AFTER all the swimming and riding? Fear? You are just starting to ride a mountain bike. You are worried about the trees, the roots, the climbing, the falling, and the fear of the “unknown”. Fear.

5 ways I deal with “Fear”: (Time to get you hyped up, these are from Redbull and I believe them!). This is a very IMPORTANT POINT, this includes relationships.

• Picture and accept the worst possible outcome. There will be a worst case and a best case. It sucks to acknowledge the potential of failure. But, ironically, this calms the flight mentality. It’s also weird to think about it in this way, but yeah, relationships and family fall in this trap too!

• Visualize a successful outcome. “Taste” the podium is what I call it. Visualizing finishing strong at that Ironman or putting visualization work into a relationship. You can manifest what you need from both.

• Bin the idea of failure. I use a philosophy. When you make mistakes and/or fail, the idea is: Failure is just success screaming to get to the top. Approach events, training, and relationships with this mantra!

• Face your fears. Fear. How vulnerable can you be to face the fear of the journey to come? Write down your fears. If it’s training I put it into my training log. If it’s relationships, I put it in my journal. Facing fear is hard. Not dealing with them will lead to, ultimately, failure.

• Embrace the challenge and results will come. Nothing more needs to be said!

I hope these little nuggets will help you overcome fear. Keep your chin up. Look up. You just might find the beaut in your FEARS.

Tailwinds,

Chad