Short motivational talk (YouTube video) by Dr. Aziz encouraging listeners to act on their desires despite fear of failure. Uses a crystal-moving metaphor to frame goals as moving from point A to B, critiques rumination and delay, and issues a call-to-action to stop avoiding risk and start creating.
So you want to do that thing. Take that risk, put yourself out there, write that book, start that business, record those videos, Ask that person out, Share that idea, Lead that project, Start that thing. You want to do it. But what if you fail? Oh, God. What if you can't pull it off? What if people don't like what you do? What if people don't like what you do and you fail and you couldn't pull it off and everyone sees it? Oh, better yet, maybe don't do the thing. Maybe you should wait on the thing. Maybe you should delay. Maybe you should put it off. Maybe you don't really want it anyway. That sound familiar? So this is common. This happens to all of us. You have. Something's calling you. It's an intuition, It's a hunger, it's a drive, it's the spirit. It's something that's saying, hey, try this thing. Do this thing. You have something to contribute. You have something to offer. You have something you could create or succeed or give. And there's that fear, the voice of doubt. Well, let me show you, with some objects in my office, what's really going on here. So let's step over to hippie shelf number four in my office with a bunch of crystals on it. And let's say there's these two fluorite crystals, right? Let's say whatever you want to do or create is out there in the world, right? And it's just a matter of getting a result. So I was just talking about this the other day with someone on a mastermind program who wants to start a business, right? And it was like, but what if I fail? It's like, okay, so starting the business, there's going to be some end result of that. It's always growing and evolving. But maybe your product comes to market or you get customers or whatever it is. So, and this could be creating a relationship or getting your body a certain way, whatever it is you want to do, right? Well, that's basically just moving something in the world from here to here. So here is me with no business, and here is me with the milestone of my business. Here's me in no relationship, and here's me with the person I want to be with, right? So that's moving from A to B. Now all we're talking about is getting this from there to there. Now we could sit back and say, but what if I don't get this from here to there? And what if I try and it goes like that and then it goes back, and what if this and what if that? What if that? And it's all a bunch of fretting about and not just freaking moving the crystal, whatever your crystal is, right? It's all not doing the work to start the business. It's all not doing the work to ask the person out so we can be grinding all our gears and all our mental energy on what? What if I fail? What if it doesn't work? Oh, no, oh, no, oh, no. And guess what? A month goes by, six months goes by, six years go by and you haven't done it. And now there's regret. Now there's the I shoulda, coulda, woulda. And you know, there's a part inside of you that wants you to stay in fear beforehand and regret afterwards. Because as painful as those are, they're still avoiding risk. And you're done with that, right? Now is the time to stop avoiding risk, to start stepping into the life that you want and start creating something extraordinary. Thanks for being with me. Let's get out there and move those quartz fluorite crystals until we speak again. May have the courage to be who you are and to know on a deep level that you're awesome.
