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Approach #2: Use Logic
* Identify your specific panic (e.g. My drama won’t sell). Now jot down the faith you would favor apt have occupying your thoughts (e.g. I am becoming a successful screenwriter). Now, jot down anything you can calculate of apt support this favored belief (e.g. I’m a agreeable writer; I’ve placed well in the contests; I’ve received complimented from these professionals; I know I’m better than the folks who wrote this weekend’s frightful teenaged horror flick
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Approach # 1: Feel the Fear & Do it Anyway
* Dispute unhelpful, fear-producing thoughts. If your fear is “I’m too old to make it as a sousaphone player”,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], compete it. Generate as much testify to the contrary as you can. (e.g. I know several successful sousaphone players who logged their first CD when they were decades older than me. Age doesn’t material. I’m a better player now than I was ten annuals ago. It’s only too late whether I give up now).
Susan Jeffers, Ph.D. has made a vocation out of helping people overcome fears along taking deed. In her many, terrific books are many, helpful tools to manage and reduce fear. In a nutshell, she says EVERYONE is afraid, so it’s not biggie that you are. Your fear will grow until you take movement. So…'feel the fear and do it anyway’. ANY action will reduce your anxiety. It’s better to do something/anything than walin the absnece of helplessness. Her recommended mantra: “whatever happens, I’ll handle it”.
* Take a moment to write down a menu of your quondam successes. If you can do these things, is it not likely that you can do this object that’s causing you fear or anxiety?
Think of it: Stage fright dissolves during the first few minutes of a representation. Applying gesso to canvas is considerably more jolly than rending your garments because you’re afraid your next drawing won’t be good ample. Jotting down dreck feels better than sitting there, paralyzed by writers’ stop.
Fears are a natural chapter of the inspired process. All multi-talented folk experience fear, solicitude, fret and resistance by some point. After you’ve identified the true ecology of your fears and resistance (penetrate Part One of this sequence),[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], you can then use proven techniques to manage and depress them. Parts 2 & 3 of this sequence will cover how to surmount fear and how to administer ingenious fears.