“Everyone faces up more bravely to a thing for which they have long prepared.” - Seneca, Letters to Lucilius, CVII
We best attack our fears head on when we’ve prepared ourselves to deal with it. How do we prepare?
Understand your truth and your fear, ask “what they’re for?”
Determine how resistant you is rearing its ugly head and create a plan to silence it.
Reflect: How might I attack my work, life, and everything more like a professional?
Decide how you will confront fear - consider a decision journal.
Visualize: yourself letting go - now that you’ve prepared, let go of everything and effortlessly perform. (thanks to my college professor, Charlene, for making us read, Inner Game of Music).
Execute.
Put that way, being “brave”, feels more like a preparation and visualization process and less like a feeling summoned during times of stress.
Put that way, you get to decide now how you will prepare.
People Leaders: I cannot overstate the importance of creating and keeping a discipline around preparation and visualization when it comes to leadership and pushing through change.