Hell with losing the respect of the wife and kids! If you stick your head in the sand instead of at least trying something, you lose the respect of the one person whose respect you REALLY need: YOURSELF!

You mentioned the “fight or flight response” when a person is faced with the fear of failure, as if it was life and death. Well, every year about 3% of American adults are diagnosed with anxiety disorders and since most of them seem to be afraid of even doing anything about that, the actual percentage of those with these disorders, when that 3% is added on each year, is astronomical! Imagine that, being afraid to do anything to get over their fears. But it’s the same cure you’re talking about: just face it head on. It’s the only way to get anything accomplished. And the only way you’re going to be able to hold your head up and have any self-respect.

Great post as usual, Dan.

Owen

Ryan

Bill

I got to hear the rest of the stories about these unknown assailants trying to kill you!

Via hoes, digging implements, your own firearms, attempted vehicular homicide… you should create a whole post on each one of those incidents… maybe a “series” of posts – and then you can shoe horn some sort of direct response principle in there!

What do you say?

-Chris

This year has been real bad. Actually 2009 was my worst year ever.
In my construction business that I closed I lost over 100k. I could see it happening but couldn’t stop the losses. Then on july 27 th I stopped home for lunch and by chance I was their to get a phone call from a major in the US Army. He was reporting to me that my son was seriously wounded in battle in Afganistan, he had lost a limb and they didn’t know if he would make it, so they were getting information from me and my wife so they could fly us to Germany in case he couldn’t make it back to the states alive. Well he did make it and has had been getting unbelievable great care at Walter Reed Hospital. Since then we’d had other small setbacks and since July I questioned my faith and had felt lost and defeated..
During the last two weeks my son was home for the hoilday’s and a strange thing has happened I realized I’m very lucky. I live in a great country, I have my health, money can be made again and my son is alive. This past week I decided to do just what your prescribing. I’m taking massive action. I still have alot to learn about making money on the internet. My one accomplishment this year is to take massive action and combine it with speed of implementation.

Thanks for another great post.

You’ve nailed it. Sometimes I’m that scared guy sitting in front of the tv. And you know what? It doesn’t make me feel any better. I know I should be DOING something other than watching television, so I actually feel worse. I’ve accomplished quite a bit I feel, but there’s always more that I’d like to do. Time is precious and wasting it is a terrible, terrible thing. Thanks for a VERY inspiring post. BTW, I love your writing style and the way you tell it like it is with your stories. Keep it up and wishing you the best in 2010.

5 minutes of sheer genius.

Thanks dooood.

Yeah, I’ve read it a million times but sometimes it resonates differently. And you know what? The respect of others is such a huge impact.

People will generally forgive a “doer” for this “failings” – even look on in envy at your efforts knowing they haven’t done much themselves. But they will rarely, rightly, forgive a defeatist.

Great post DD.