In this episode, Taylor tells us that the inoculation fear sometimes is going through the thing you are afraid. We spend our lives trying to avoid the things that we fear, only to grow weaker day by day. In order us for us to get authority over the thing that we fear, we must not go around it but we face it head on.
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What's up crew? Hope you're doing amazing. Taylor Welch here about to head into the gym. I have a late workout today because last night we, uh, had our annual Christmas party with the whole team, all partners, uh, the real estate partners. The consulting crew, um, some of our, uh, smaller info brands. It was a good time, but I was out late.
So today I took ad advantage of sleeping in and, uh, had some meetings. Here I'm at the gym and I hope that you're having a great day. It is, uh, Friday, and so if you have stacked your week the right way, you are likely about to go into, uh, either a couple days. A hyper-focus over the weekend, or you're about to get some rest over the weekend.
Either way, it's a win. I was thinking this morning on the way into the office, that the things that have scared me in the past, the areas or the situations that I was most fearful of typically were the least worthy of my fears. How do I know that? How do I, how did I discover that? It's interesting that the inoculation.
Fear sometimes is going through the thing you are afraid of. We hate that, don't we? Oh, we hate it. We're like, we spend our lives sometimes trying to avoid the things that we're afraid of and some, some folks can get pretty good at it, avoiding the situations, in the circumstances, in the outcomes that they fear, but they get weak.
And weaker. And weaker as they waste resources and energy avoiding something that they had no business being afraid of in the first place. There has been a, there've been a lot of things that have happened in the past two years that I have been afraid of. And it's funny how when you go through them and get to the other side, you realize that they're just things, they have no power over you.
They have have no, they don't own you. They can't. Force you under duress to act or behave a certain way. Only you can do that. You retain your own power of choice and decision. So it made me think this morning as I was doing a little bit of training for, uh, some clients where are. We subconsciously pulling our punches because we are afraid of something.
Where are we subconsciously giving energy to something that we fear without realizing that in order for us to advance and in order us for us to get authority over the thing that we fear, we must actually not go around, but go through the thing that we fear. You will never get to the other side unless you do that, and it may, sometimes it's with business, sometimes it's with money, sometimes it's with family.
The person who can operate without fear is a force to be reckoned with. They are a powerful human being. You can tell when someone's afraid because they feel fearful. They feel it. The person who's not afraid, they begin to operate from a place of vision in stamina, and they get long term in their decision making and their choices.
Anyways, just a reminder for you today, it's Friday. I hope your week was amazing. Push through. There's nothing in your life that is scary. As scary as being afraid of everything. Typically, the things that we fear are not as bad as we thought that they would be. The the mental, uh, the, the cognitive distortion is worse than the thing itself.
Adios, see you.