Christian Mickelsen#1 Best-Selling Author, Personal Development Coach, and Speaker

Are You Afraid of What You Want? #shorts

Name: Are You Afraid of What You Want? #shorts
Uploaded: 2022-05-09T14:00:30+00:00
Duration: 59 s
Channel: Christian Mickelsen
Description: This content was created by Christian Mickelsen. This content was uploaded by Christian Mickelsen. This is a YouTube short titled "Are You Afraid of What…

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This content was created by Christian Mickelsen. This content was uploaded by Christian Mickelsen. This is a YouTube short titled "Are You Afraid of What You Want? #shorts" (created 2022-05-09). It contains a single-speaker motivational monologue in which the speaker explores fear around pursuing goals, noting that achieving desired outcomes often requires uncomfortable actions (e.g., attending networking events, writing articles, meeting prospective clients). The speaker uses the "ships are safer in harbor" metaphor to encourage embracing fear and taking action to attain what you want.

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How could we be scared of the things we want? And here, let me complicate things even more for you. When you think about the things that you need to do to get the things that you want, like, what are you going to do? You're going to need. Maybe you're going to have to go to some networking events, Maybe you're going to have to write an article. Maybe you're going to have to go talk to prospective clients and do an intro session with them or like, whatever the things are. But when you think about doing the things that you need to do that are going to get you the results, then how do you feel? I think we should just stay in bed. It's safer there. But you know what? There's a saying that ships are safer in harbor, but that's not what ships are for. In order to do great things, in order to be great and to have all the great things you want in your life, we're going to have to do some things that make us afraid. And I think ultimately it'd be great to make peace with getting all the stuff that we want.