Alright, time for me to clean something up…

I know sometimes it seems like I’m against “positive thinking”, but in reality, nothing could be further from the truth.

I’m a HUGE fan of thinking positive, in fact, I think it’s the critical first step in overcoming anxiety or fear.  Heck, it’s the first step to ANYTHING.

What I’m not so keen on is stopping with positive thinking and not following it up with ACTION.

Let me explain…

Before we could put a man on the moon, we first had to BELIEVE we could.  I mean if we can’t do it, what’s the point in trying?  That’s why you don’t see many professional alchemists anymore still trying to turn lead into gold…we just don’t believe we can anymore (and we’re probably right on that one).

But what if we would have just sat around thinking and pondering how great it would be to go to the moon?  What if we just believed it REAL HARD, but that was it?

We’d be no closer to moon than we were in 1900.

We had to believe and then DO SOMETHING.   We had to figure it out.  Build a shuttle.  Set a goal to do it in a certain timeframe.

Kennedy said,

“I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth.”

ONLY THEN did we actually take the steps necessary to plant our flag on the moon.  Belief and positive thinking was a necessary first step, but not nearly enough.

It’s the same with overcoming fears and anxiety.

If you think you CAN’T be different, that you’re destined to a life of misery and anxious suffering, then you’ll never try and put in the effort required to change.  You’ll guarantee your own failure.  So thinking positive is critical, you HAVE to think positive and believe in the possibility of change just to start.

But if ALL you do is think positive, like some self-improvement wackos tell you to, that’s not much better than doing nothing.  You need to add ACTION to the mix and get things moving in the direction toward your goal.

What actions can you take that actually move you closer to the goal?

Things like figuring out what you do in life that causes you to get stressed, anxious, and sick, and do less of it.  How about figuring out what you do in life that makes you smile and feel at peace and doing more of that?  Starting a recovery program like on that I offer, or seeing a therapist if that’s more your speed, or deciding to confront what’s really at the core of your anxiety…

The options are limitless, but you have to start somewhere.  Thinking positive is a great place to start, but a terrible place to stop.

So what are YOU going to do today to move one step closer to who you want to be?  Shoot me a comment and let me know!

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In the fourth Case Study for the Driving Fear Program, you’re going to hear from Marie Muchow, an attorney and mom from Santa Rosa, California.

Click the Play button below to hear Marie share why she decided it was time to get started with the Driving Fear Program to overcome her panic attacks while driving, and what she learned by using the program that she says, “changed her life completely”.

Thanks for sharing your story Marie…

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I know it’s easy to feel unique when you have a fear that other people seem to do without a second thought, like driving on the highway, but believe me, you’re far from alone.

I was recently interviewed by Jeff Wise, the author of Extreme Fear: The Science of Your Mind in Danger for a New York Times piece specifically about the fear of driving on the highways and what it’s causes may be.

I don’t think you’ll necessarily FEEL any better after reading the story, since that’s not the goal of the piece (overcoming your fear of driving on the highway is the job of The Driving Fear Program), but I think you’ll feel better knowing that if it’s being discussed on this large of a venue, it’s a fear many others share.

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In our third Case Study for the Driving Fear Program, we’re going to hear from Heather Lopez from Newhall, California.

Click the Play button below to hear Heather share why she decided it was time to get started with the Driving Fear Program, what her experiences were with using the program, and how life for her and her family has changed now that’s she’s completed it.

Thanks for letting everyone hear your experiences Heather…

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In our second Case Study for the Driving Fear Program, we’re going to hear from Marion Currie from the UK.

Click the Play button below to hear Marion tell her story about what brought her to the Driving Fear Program, what her experiences were, and how quickly she started to see results. For all of you in the US, when she talks about pulling into a “lay-by”, that’s sort of like a little rest area off the shoulder of the road.

Thanks for sharing your story Marion…

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