Aspire Magazine: Inspiration for a Woman's Soul.(TM) Oct/Nov 2014 - Featuring Louise Hay | Page 79

Now today, I have cultivated my emotional fitness, peak psychology and decision making process to the point that I move through comfort zones quickly and constantly…I look forward to breaking through comfort zones today. Even in the depths of fear and pain, I feel with 100% of my being that I am about to blow through another comfort zone and I’m in the DIScomfort part of the process. I didn’t start here. I started as a control freak who lived small, tried to control every outcome and showed up to “get” my result in nearly every situation…avoiding pain and discomfort at all costs. And the quality of my life directly matched my mindset…it was small, fearful, self-involved and scarcity based. I was not happy. And I had no idea that my lack of happiness had anything to do with my FEAR driving me. Like most people, back then I BLAMED everyone and everything else for my unhappiness. I felt I was too fat, so I blamed my body and my “genes.” I didn’t like my job so I blamed the people I worked for. I wasn’t happy in my relationship, so I blamed my boyfriend (at the time). I didn’t have enough cash, so I blamed my job, taxes, government and the price of gas! fear! I sure do! Actually, if you are NOT feeling fear on a regular basis (small or big) then you are living too small….you are NOT going for it! You know what all that BLAME got me? A whole lotta nothing! You take steps, baby steps. My personal journey has taken me 19 years so far and I’m still growing and cultivating my fearlessness! The greatest gift I could give you is ONE strategy for living fearlessly that will shortcut this process for When I had a life changing experience and turned my focus on MYSELF… everything started to And living fearlessly, like every change in life, happens on a spectrum. You do not go from living from fear to blowing through comfort zones on a weekly basis…all overnight. ...to keep growing you need to continually break through your current comfort zone into your next one! change for the better. That’s when I began to harness my courage and live fearlessly. By the way, COURAGE is not being FEARLESS! It’s really NOT! Courage is feeling the fear but taking the action anyway! Don’t think for a second that I don’t feel you, give you the biggest results with the least amount of tim