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Overcome Your Fear With This One Tactic!

When something sounds too good to be true, it probably is!

Bill James-Wallace
3 min readMay 14, 2024

Not this time!

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It’s a habit now. It’s a good habit, but not one I always relish I have — because it forces me to take action 🙄.

It’s also so simple that it can easily be passed off as:

“Meh! That’s nothing, give me something hard to do!”

We want the trick, the shortcut, the hack. We don’t want the grind, the work, the time it will take to achieve the goal.

In today’s society, thinking “long-term” means a week, or a month, or maybe, maybe 90 days! So we want the shortcut because we need to get on to the next thing.

But this is none of those things. It’s not a hack, shortcut, or trick.

But when it comes to fearing something, anything, if you have fear, what does it do?

It stops you, you baulk, you go in a different direction.

Maybe you really want the thing, but you pass it off as “nothing” because you don’t want to show your fear, even to yourself.

I’m just the same. Seriously, but (un)fortunately, I know what to do now, so my…

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Bill James-Wallace
Bill James-Wallace

Written by Bill James-Wallace

I write about growth, self improvement and success! | Facilitator | Consultant | Tries to play golf. Runs a bit. | Interested in helping make life better.

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