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How to Overcome Your Fear: 7 Tips from the Last 2200 Years

Published by Henrik Edberg October 3rd, 2008 in Personal Development, People Skills, Lessons I have learned from... and Success. 17 Comments

How to Overcome Your Fear: 7 Tips from the Last 2200 Years
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“Fears are educated into us, and can, if we wish, be educated out.”
Karl Augustus Menninger

“The enemy is fear. We think it is hate; but, it is fear.”
Mahatma Gandhi

What is holding you back?

Whatever you answer, it will in many cases boil down to fear in some form.

Now, fear can be useful to keep yourself alive. But many times, especially if you live a life where you have the possibility to reading these words, fear is just a big obstacle in your path.

But what can you do about fear? How can you overcome it?

In this article I’d like to explore a few of the timeless things that people have learned about that throughout the last few thousands of years.

1. Face your fear to become stronger.

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What Would Winnie the Pooh Do?

Published by Henrik Edberg September 25th, 2008 in Productivity, Relaxation, Personal Development, People Skills, Lessons I have learned from... and Success. 16 Comments

“Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.”
Anthony Robbins

Your mind like answers. It seems like whatever you ask it, it will find answers for.

So it becomes very important to ask yourself the right questions. Questions that will help you out rather than just make you feel more miserable and helpless.

I have already written a bit about this and listed some of my favourite questions.

Questions like: “What’s awesome about this?” and “Will this matter 5 years from now?”

Another favourite goes something like this: “What would X do?” X being whoever inspiring figure you want it to be. It’s a great way to shift perspective in a situation and find a more useful frame of mind.

For example, the non-conformist and rebel might ask: “What would Tyler Durden do?”

Me, I like Winnie the Pooh.

What would Winnie the Pooh do?

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6 Timeless Thoughts on Forgiveness

Published by Henrik Edberg September 10th, 2008 in Health, Relaxation, Personal Development, People Skills, Lessons I have learned from... and Success. 14 Comments

6 Timeless Thoughts on Forgiveness
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“Forgiveness is the answer to the child’s dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.”
Dag Hammarskjold

“To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness.”
Robert Muller

Forgiveness. One of those things many of us struggle with from time to time. But why should we forgive? And how can we go about it?

Here are a few timeless thoughts on forgiveness. I hope you’ll find something useful.

1. Forgiveness sets you free.

”When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free.”
Catherine Ponder

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The Wisdom of Lao Tzu: A Taoist Guide to Getting Things Done

Published by Henrik Edberg September 8th, 2008 in Productivity, Personal Development, Lessons I have learned from... and Success. 12 Comments

Note: This is a guest post by Michael Miles of EffortlessAbundance.com.

We live in a competitive society and are often told that to get ahead we require drive, commitment and determination, that we must expend a great amount of energy and, if necessary, use force to get what we want. A ‘survival of the fittest’ mentality is deeply entrenched in our culture.

Much of this thinking comes from Darwin’s Origin of the Species, a work which has influenced us in the most profound and subtle ways, not least of all because it advanced the idea that competition was a natural and normal part of life, that nature was ‘red in tooth and claw.’ Whatever we might think about Darwin, we do tend to see the world in these competitive terms.

But there is another way of thinking. There is another way of getting things done, a way which sees nature differently and recognizes the importance of harmony, balance and living peacefully.

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Jonathan Swift’s Top 8 Pearls of Wisdom

Published by Henrik Edberg September 4th, 2008 in Personal Development, People Skills, Lessons I have learned from... and Success. 11 Comments

“May you live all the days of your life.”

“There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.”

Jonathan Swift was an Anglo-Irish writer that lived a couple of centuries ago (1667-1745).

He is perhaps most known for classics like Gulliver’s Travels and A Modest Propsal. The latter being the ironic and shocking essay where he suggested that impoverished Irish people should sell their babies as food to rich people. Such works has earned Swift a reputation as one of the finest satirists of all time.

Since Swift was a writer there is a ton of things to quote. He is 8 of my favourite pearls of wisdom at the moment.

1. Don’t fear being wrong.

“A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying… that he is wiser today than yesterday.”

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