Brendon Burchard says fear comes from how you manage your mind, not from real danger. When you expect to be afraid, you avoid things and miss opportunities. He shifted his own stage fright by replacing the word fear with faith in his internal dialogue.
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Fear is mostly poor management of your mind. And you must stop having fear as a frame. When you anticipate things are going to cause fear. When you fearfully see something you will not approach, you will avoid. And as you fearfully see something. I'm so scared to get up on stage. No, trust. When you get up there, you will serve two different things. Fear. Fear, fear, fear, fear. Back, back, back, back, back. And you wonder, why did five years go by and I've been so timid? Because you saw fear in advance, not faith in advance.