You have a dream, you have a goal, you want to be more confident, you want to be healthier, you want to feel lively…You want to develop a skill, you want to read a book, you want to take a challenge, you want to speak up in front of others, you want to wake up to do exercise...but you don’t feel doing it.
There are something stopping you call it either fear or doubt or lack of confidence. You know you need to choose COURAGE over FEAR to take the very first step:
“cour-age
/’kerij/ noun
The ability to do something that is difficult or scary
Stepping outside of your comfort zone
Sharing your ideas, speaking up, or showing up
Standing firm in your beliefs and values
And some days...getting out of bed.”
HOW to choose the courage over fear or hesitation?
5..4..3..2..1…counting down to re-direct your focus on the action is a technique mentioned in the best selling book “The 5 Second Rule” of Mel Robbins.
When you want to do something, but you don’t take action, you hesitate, you have a window opportunity within 5 seconds - if you don’t move physically to take the first action, your brain will kill the opportunity.
You count 5-4-3-2-1 that activates your brain’s prefrontal cortex that gives you the control of the situation! When you want to raise your hand to speak up in front of a group of people, you hesitate, count 5-4-3-2-1 then stand up at the same time or raise your hand at the same time or shout “'I”, you let courage go beyond fear - doubts and fear disappear!
And each time you do it, you become more courageous - your confidence muscle gets stronger and stronger!
So let’s count 5-4-3-2-1 more today to take action to be more confidence to reach your full potential instead of reaching full of the fear!
