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Overcome fear and comfort and unleash your potential

Malko Ebers, July 13th New York City

I had received so many positive responses to a simple Facebook post that I felt encouraged to write this blog article. The quote I came up with was: 

'As soon as you start doing something you will realize that most hurdles, sea monsters and challenges were just illusions, distractions of the mind.'

If you want to achieve anything meaningful you need to exercise control of your mind through positive habits and positive conditioning (Tony Robbins would be a master teacher/read Awaken the Giants within) or as Aristotle said 'we are what we repeatedly do'. 

Fear and comfort are related and we need to overcome both, both prevent action, both distract us and play our mind some tricks. We withdraw into our comfort zone to avoid fear and it seems avoiding fear is a far greater impulse than seeking pleasure. That believe however allows us to create our 'pink castles' in our comfort zones, out of fear of what might happen and because of the comfort we enjoy. Just beware that comfort zone is shrinking like an ice shell, it is an illusion.

Constant change is a reality, like the seasons of the year change, so does the market - no Chinese Wall guarantees lasting protection only the realization that fears are created in our mind and that makes them powerful. Once we start doing something, once we start looking objectively at the facts we can break down any problem into pieces, can go the process step by step, can share with friends or colleagues. 

Muhammad Ali said: 'The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.' - if we overcome our immediate comfort, if we get up early and make a small change in our lives we have gone the first step that can take us into any direction, we have taken control over our destiny. 

Many wise men have spoken about the power of the mind and that 'if we can think it, we can do it', in order to 'think it' action is required, action links us to ourselves and the world around us, we are here, we make a distance and we will continue till we reach our goal.