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Exercise 4.4: Dealing with Negative Self Talk

There are going to be times when you are going to wake up and feel overly pessimistic. You’ll be walking around all day reaffirming to yourself that you are a loser and that the whole world is against you.
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You’ll smile at someone and they don’t smile back – you tell yourself its cause you’re ugly
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Exercise 4.3: Role Playing to Overcome Situational Fears

Another exercise you can do is role playing. If you’ve ever gone for an interview, you’ve probably tried this before in front of a mirror.
Create a list of as many possible questions and refutes that someone might have to your requests and follow the two steps as mentioned above.
Do your homework, come up with simple, [...]

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Step 4: Overcoming fear and believing in yourself

“Where fear is, happiness is not”
~Seneca
Fear to take action will hold you back from achieving your dreams. It’s very easy to tell someone not to be afraid, however fear is a very predictable emotion.
It is what we feel when we feel uncertain or unprepared. We feel it when we experience a sense of danger that we [...]

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How I Overcame My Fear Of Networking For Potential Clients

In this post, I talk about my experience of how I managed to overcome my fear of meeting and networking for potential clients while freelancing.
Before I really started getting into freelancing, the idea of networking really freaked me out.
The reason it did was because I used to imagined networking as going into this big room [...]

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Why Teleworking Is A Faster Way To Work From Home Than Online Business

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When I first heard about online business, it sounded like a great idea but I wasn’t sure how to start. It sounded simple enough and I thought I could figure it out on my own.
This was the first mistake I made and one [...]

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