How To Overcome Your Fear To Live Your Life With Courage

Welcome to my book about how to overcome your fear to live your life with courage throughout the chapters of your WorkLife Story. Here is a preview of what's inside, along with the main ideas and the meaning behind these.

WorkLife is our life at work, where we spend one third of our lives. It is also the impact our work has on our life outside of work, and the impact our life outside of work has on our work. All areas of our life in and out of work are so intrinsically linked, they cannot be separated, nor do I believe should they. I believe WorkLife needs to be considered holistically.

Living your best WorkLife is about choice. It's about having courage to face your fears and make changes. It's about taking a step back and asking why this isn't working for you, and exploring why you are unfilled or unhappy in your WorkLife. It involves taking a hard look at yourself and recognising the sources of pleasure in your life and the sources of frustration. It's about stepping beyond your place of fear, to embrace what lies ahead, which comes from taking that first courageous step.

In this book I tell five stories:

1. Improvisation Career Change and Hiking in the Alps: Richard's story of how it took three years of striving towards living his dream WorkLife for it to finally come to fruition; and how during that time, he took steps of courage to overcome his fears.
2. What If? Letters to Juliet: Claire and Sophie's Story of how contemplating 'What If?' led them on a journey of adventure and courage to overcome their fears.
3. Red Velvet: A Story Both Triumphant and Tragic: Ira Aldridge's story of how he lived his Work- Life with courage, overcoming his fears in the face of adversity, and going on to receive many accolades in recognition of his talent.
4. My Top Three Isolation Inspirations: Carmel's story of how she coped with the day-to-day fears of uncertainty brought about by the impact of Covid-19 on her WorkLife.
5. Overcoming an Abstract Fear: Lucas's story of how being observant to what was going on around him, allowed him to overcome a fear that was very foggy.

I share the exercises that helped to work through these challenging situations to resolve the dilemmas. I present these exercises as the following assignments for you to work through:

Yes, And... Assignment
This assignment is to help you to suspend judgement of your ideas, by focusing on propelling your WorkLife dream forward to expand your ideas.

What's the Worst That Can Happen? Assignment
This assignment is to help you to take a reality check on what's holding you back.

Develop a Practice of Continuous Self-Feedback
This assignment is to help you to understand the courage required to do something different.

Develop a Practice of Insightful and Effective Self-Questioning
This assignment is to help you to appreciate the importance of posing and reflecting on 'If' questions.

What Is Your Origin Story Assignment
This assignment is to help you to appreciate how you got to where you are, what fears you faced along the way, and the courage you needed to overcome these.

Managing Day-to-Day Fear on Your Path of Courage Assignment
This assignment is to help you take one step at a time to overcome your fears, when your WorkLife throws you a curveball.

Four Points to Help You Deal with an Abstract Fear Assignment
This assignment is to help you to figure things out when you don't know where to start.

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