BRX Pro Tip: Fear and Hope
Stone Payton : And we’re back with Business RadioX Pro Tips. Stone Payton, Lee Kantor here with you. Lee, I’d like to chat a little bit about the distinction, the balance of fear and hope.
Lee Kantor: Yeah, a lot of people struggle with both fear and hope. They’re both kinds of two sides of a continuum. And that’s kind of the gap between where you would like to be and what you dream to be, but the fear that keeps you kind of stuck in this place that you are currently or that you’re not satisfied with.
Lee Kantor: And to close that gap, it isn’t done with kind of saying affirmations in front of a mirror or any type of future certainty that you might believe might happen, but it closes when you start taking some sort of action. You can’t wait until the fear goes away and then begin. It doesn’t work like that.
Lee Kantor: You’re never going to feel 100% ready. You just have to start moving. You have to start doing something because fear lives in that unknown. And it just kind of feeds on the questions that we just keep asking ourselves, that internal dialogue that is kind of sabotaging us. What if we fail? What if this doesn’t work out? What if people aren’t going to like me?
Lee Kantor: But once you start taking action, even a little baby step, then fear starts kind of going away because now you have data. Now you have new information. You have real information. And then that’s replacing your imagination, that real information. And that’s where hope starts to kind of take shape and starts to kind of grow. It becomes more powerful as you take more action, because now you have data that is actually real and actionable upon.
Lee Kantor: So, every call you make, every new connection you make, every experiment you take, all of that is data. And that gets rid of the uncertainty that’s in your mind. And so, that kind of dissipates. And now you have momentum. And now you’re not reacting to some imaginary fear. You are building a future with intention. Because now you have the real data that supports this, and you have real, actionable next steps that you can take.
Lee Kantor: So, remember, fear shrinks when you take steps forward and move forward, and hope expands the more you do that. And that’s how you close the gap between fear and hope.
