Hesitation and Doubt - Friend Or Foe?

September 19, 7:48 AMCareer Achievement ExaminerStanley Bronstein

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 Hesitation and Doubt Can Serve As Roadblocks

While hesitation and doubt can often prevent us from acting rashly and foolishly, more often than not, they will instead be roadblocks to our acting upon our instincts. All too often, we fail to act upon our instincts, despite the fact they are often correct.

Acting upon our instincts is a natural and pure use of our intuitive powers. They are not based upon preconceptions, misconceptions or possibly inaccurate beliefs. Instead, our instincts are based upon those beliefs and feelings we know, deep down inside, are proper.

Listen To Your Instincts

Your path will be much clearer if we use our instincts to help determine it. Your path will not be based upon false preconceptions, misconceptions and beliefs that one often believes to be true. Instead it will be based upon your innermost thoughts, feelings and beliefs, all of which are pure and good.

Fear Is The Leading Cause of Hesitation and Doubt

The main reason one hesitates or has doubts is because they are afraid. It may be fear of failure; fear or success or simply fear of making a wrong decision. As you re-create yourself, you should ask yourself whether or not fear may be holding you back. If it is, you need to learn to face your fear and to overcome it.

Fear is False Evidence Appearing Real.

What Happens When We Act Out Of Fear?

Whenever we react in a fearful manner, we all too often are letting misconceptions and incorrect beliefs determine our actions. Instead, we must learn to face our fear and act in a manner that is more consistent with our instincts.

During my personal re-creation process, I have had many fears. Some of them were:

Whether or not I could (and would) lose the great amount of weight I needed to lose.

Whether or not I would be successful in my chosen professions.

Whether or not relocating to Arizona was a wise decision.

Whether or not writing my books and starting a personal re-creation program to share with others would be a success.

Whether or not I could handle the success when it comes my way.

What Really Matters?

Over the course of time, I've decided that all that matters it that my belief that I am on the proper path.

Other than time traveling to the future, there is no way that I know of to be 100% certain that my path is the proper one. Consequently, I have chosen to trust my instincts. My instincts tell me that everything I have done over the past 20 years is all falling into place and everything is lining up to produce the results I want.

In fact, my instincts tell me that everything will work out so well, that I will look back upon this experience 5 or 10 years from now and laugh about how well everything has worked out. I will see that my fears were groundless. They were False Evidence Appearing Real.

Questions For You To Ask and Answer

What are the biggest fears you are currently facing in your life and in your work?

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What do your instincts tell you about these fears? Do they tell you that you fear realistic or are they false evidence appearing real?

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Print out this article and take at least 15 minutes to answer these questions. Your answers may surprise you.