Serendipitously, I stumbled on a podcast from Russell Brunson where he was reviewing one of my all-time favorite books, Outwitting the Devil by Napoleon Hill. In the book, Hill talks about how all decisions are either made on faith or on fear.
For example, let’s say you had to do some door-to-door selling for your business. I know you don’t want to do it. You know you don’t want to do it. The whole world knows that nobody wants to do it. But what is guiding your decisions. Is it the faith that you’ll find some great relationships and business or the fear of the rejection?
What was so striking to me about this theory is that, when I look back on this financial windfalls, they all came from a place of faith. The situations that I found myself in made fear a non-factor. If I gave into the fear, failure was automatic.
When I decided to keep going and not quit, I stopped fear from having a voice.
When I created a plan of action, I simply could not let fear have any influence.
When I had to start taking action immediately, fear had to be suppressed because I had no other choice.
The external factors had forced me to disregard fear in my decision making and every single time I’ve had to do that, I’ve had major success!
So then the question is, how can I replicate this and avoid the crisis?
#381: Faith Over Fear