When you begin to see that good feeling is part of your essential nature and not something that can ever be truly impacted by how much or how little you have, the game of money becomes considerably easier to play.
I am a proud Dominican woman; I just don't look the part and that's something that has haunted me, my entire life.
We can't even solve what is going on inside ourselves with hate. In order to cultivate more love in the world, we need to cultivate it inside ourselves first... and we can't wait until everyone "out there" changes and behaves better.
Becoming Fearless is part of our larger effort to put the spotlight on what is working in our culture rather than just on what's dysfunctional. Taken individually, these stories inspire. Taken together, they testify to something larger -- that in the face of multiple crises, people are responding with strength, courage and resilience.
Tapping can sometimes bring up long-buried emotions, which is why I state that, before tapping along, folks must take full responsibility for their own well-being.
I'm no longer afraid of change but I still get nervous when a train approaches, and the wind whips around me, and I'm certain for just a second that I'll get knocked onto the tracks.
In her new book "Lean In," Sheryl Sandberg notes the ways in which fear can hold women back and the importance of pushing through that fear. She write...
Given a lot of the programming we have received, being true to ourselves can often be challenging. I hope this video will help you to do so.
I want what every expecting parent wants: a healthy baby. And a great deal of that is 100 percent out of my control. That's a fear I could never have anticipated or fully understood until having to go through it.
In October of last year, I was no longer able to deny a long-developing internal shift, and promptly left my rather high-powered career to figure out what my next passion was. Walking out of the office that day with no real plan, I'd never been more scared. Now, I've never been more liberated.
Greatness is inside -- probably more than you know. How great are you willing to be? Since your enhanced greatness benefits not just you, but also so many others (perhaps the whole world), I hope this video will help you allow more of your greatness to shine through.
While my progress has been gradual, failure and rejection have become less prominent factors in my decision-making process. My goal is to embrace change and uncertainty as I get older rather than submit to an apprehensive lifestyle.
Some people are just so darned determined to scare us with doomsday prophecies... sheesh! But, fortunately, we don't have to let them spoil our day.
Too often we just allow ourselves to just react to life, rather than creating it. If you could choose what kind of day you were going to have, what would you do? You have more choice than you may realize. Here's a little video to help you make the most of that choice.
Fear is natural, and it deserves respect and compassion -- don't insult your fear by smothering it with saccharine affirmations. Be scared. And be brave.
My failure fear is centered on expecting too much of myself and having too many goals. There are 24 hours in a day. And this girl appreciates sleep.
It's been said by many great teachers that the outside world is a reflection of the inner world. So, it stands to reason that if we wish to experience greater peace in the world, we need to cultivate greater peace within us.
All of us are seeking happiness and trying to avoid suffering. But sometimes our path toward happiness and avoidance of suffering crosses with another person's path toward happiness and avoidance of suffering and there's a disturbance. We take the other person's actions as "anti-us," but really, most of the time, it has nothing to do with us.
Please don't vote from fear -- fear clouds the mind. Stand up and be counted, be passionate about what matters to you, but clear those fears out and let the intelligent and rational person inside you cast your ballot.
It is still a challenge to be myself, in that most people will not understand why I do what I do. That is unimportant. I have spent my life discovering what makes me most happy -- without tampering with the happiness of others.
I believe each of us has an innate capacity for strength and throughout our lives, we develop -- through conditions we find ourselves in -- the skills to be secure, passionate, formidable and determined.
The potential for success -- in any and all areas of life -- is within each of us... but it does require that we take action. We actually have to do things, which means the possibility of making a mistake.
During the middle of a horsemanship class I found myself crying for days -- and it wasn't because I was hurt by a horse
Fear is loud and powerful. In order to continue, Baumgardner needed to turn down fear's volume and increase the volume of reason. Gervais did this through helping Baumgardner speak over his fear with positive self-talk.
Be here. Be still; quietly remember the presence of and within yourself, and you will know, without thinking, that while all around you everything changes, within you lives something unchanging.
