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Closing the Gapby Vince PoscenteAuthor of The Ant and the Elephant, Invinceable Principles and The Age of Speed When fear is high and confidence is low the gap between the two results in blaechhhk. (In case you're wondering, blaechhhk is the onomatopoeic word for ahckhhhg.) The gap makes people freeze, turn tail or give up. The gap is like a cold sore on the upper lip of a blind date. Nothing says, get me out-of-here like - the gap. We (that the proverbial you and I) can close the gap when we (you/I) take action to do two things. Diminish fear and gather confidence.
The point is - close the gap between fear and confidence and we can get back to a sense of normalcy. The questions is - how? Meet phobias head on. Here are the top ten phobias based on a 2001 Gallup Poll and action I recommend.
The responsibility for closing the gap rests in what you and I do in the days and weeks to come. Follow these two recommendations and we will prevail. One - have the courage to face everything that scares you on a daily basis. Now treat each issue as an opportunity and move towards it. Laurie Skerslet, 1st Canadian to summit Mt. Everest, said it best. The closer you get to fear the smaller it becomes. Two - confidence comes from experience. There is no better way to get experience than to take action. The specific action you take matters very little. Act and you will gain experience, hence confidence, as you go. Close the gap! It's that fast and that simple. Until next week it's full speed ahead,
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In a society where the media feeds our morbid addiction to fear (i.e. news about job cuts, foreclosures, terrorist attacks or the dreaded H1N1 virus - otherwise known as "the flu") it's not surprising we aren't a quivering pile of id by the end of every day. It's estimated, by the National Institute for Mental Health, one out of every ten Americans has a phobia of some kind. Robert Leahy, director of the American Institute for Cognitive Therapy, postulates we live in the "age of anxiety" to the degree that a typical child today has the same level of anxiety as the average psychiatric patient in the 1950's. 