Way to go… It's interesting when we face those things that seem totally out of place and rhythm in a typical meeting. If we don't allow fear to keep us from engaging and switching tactics… it turns out to something good… Perfect example.@marcel

happy birthday, Rosemary

Such a great prompt 1. Fear becomes feedback. Discomfort becomes a metric… love this. One of the things I work through every morning and night is this: when I have a fear, I get curious and bring it before God. What do you want me to know about this fear 2. What emotion do I resist feeling the most — and why? For most of my life, I suppressed all feelings, except joy… That being said… I haven't arrived, but I'm much better about really feeling the emotion and bringing it for God to understand why I'm feeling this… Fear is probably at the top of my list, but what I found is what's behind the fear… For example, I could have a fear that I'm gonna lose my business. I'm gonna lose my house… But that's not the real fear. What I learned is that the real fear is what I will look like to other people if that happens. If that makes sense, this is something that I uncovered in the last couple of years. because the fear we first think we are fearing Isn’t the true fear… there's something usually below the surface, which is the actual fear. 3. When I imagine being rejected, what’s the physical sensation I feel? (What if that feeling was simply a signal of growth? - see Marcel's "NO" story this week) This is a good one: being in sales my entire life, and I tell you what, when you face rejection. It's incredible what growth happens when you do it consistently… And this makes me think of the TED talk. I can't remember the guy's name… But he was an insecure Asian guy who had an incident in his childhood. It kept him from stepping out of his comfort zone… He put it upon himself to be rejected 100 times in 100 days, and because of that, his life transformed… I think of my LDS friends and the men go on a two-year mission which went on and doing this two years to get anywhere from 20,000 to 40,000 rejection that's why they look at rejection differently because they face rejection more than anyone else at the beginning of their lives… that's why they have a resiliency that few of us have because they've already faced rejection over and over and over and over again day after day after day for two years in a row… I remember doing cold calls in person in the 90s. My boss wanted me to do 30, and it was always the first one or two that were the hardest, but it's amazing how my mind was transformed by the third or fourth…I had some of my most creative ideas when facing my fear and learning from those rejections… I can only imagine where I would be today if I had done 20,000 rejections in two years… The mindset shifted me from rejection to creativity to empowerment… which is crazy good amazing… knowledge that rejection is something I don't want, but I also understand in my soul. It's what I need for growth if that makes sense. My dad disappearing when I was nine really did a number on me, so as I'm facing rejection, that's an inner voice that I'm not worthy because of that incident, but now that I know that that's where my fear goes back to, I'm able to work through it more each day. 4. What story have I told myself about what “no” means? (Whose voice or belief does that story actually come from?) and I don't have what it takes, and I'm unworthy… Again, going back to the situation with my dad 5. What was a time when a “no” turned out to be a blessing, AND What did it lead me to that I wouldn’t have found otherwise?

@Michael Clegg it was shocking to me too when I discovered that I had someone walk me through the process and it was like oh my goodness

@Michael Clegg 👊🔥

@Mike Ludwig let's go!🔥