Fear, Self-Esteem and Safety – Can You Say, “Intertwingled?”

Posted on 22. Mar, 2009 by Kelly in Personal Safety

Remember, fear is the most dangerous mindset of all and makes you look weak and insecure, like I felt earlier today…fortunately, I was safe in my office or creeps could have easily seen my vulnerability!

Here’s my story:

I was just working on a new safety blog for a large client today and realized how scary it is for me to change the WordPress template colors, etc. All of the technical stuff can freak me out due to fear I’ll mess something up permanently.

My blogging instructor and coach, Cathy Perkins, The WordPress Wizard helped me do what I needed to do.

I told her how scary it was at first and then how fun it became once I’d had some success (with her instruction) and didn’t blow up my computer or anything (Ha!). You know what Cathy said? She said, “That’s the same thing you said last year, in my class, when we did this.”

This project today has really helped my self-esteem with regard to technical things. I am my own webmaster but some of it still makes me shiver. (I must have residual fear from building my first webiste.)

Also, this goes to show you that someone who can stand up in front of thousands of people and speak, and fight the most skilled fighting instructors still has fear about something that seems so simple and dare I say “stupid” to many people.

Also, it is a good lesson in getting help when you need it. I’ve learned to do that although I pride myself on being independent. The world today is “interdependent” as my good friend and mentor Alex Mandossian says. That means, no matter how independent you are, no one succeeds alone. That was my lesson this year as I began to work heavily with joint venture partners in order to “succeed with others.” It actually was instrumental in my winning a first place prize I’ve been dreaming about for two years!!! T. Harv Eker’s Guerrilla Business School!

And another thing. What we fear has everything to do with our personality style. Cathy Perkins is more analytical than I am and is excellent at technical things. I am more extroverted than Cathy so when I took a picture with her in San Francisco a couple weeks ago, she hid behind my hair! Personality styles are amazing and I am providing training on them in a quick, 20-minute TeleSeminar/WebCast on April 2.

Check out my FREE, interactive audio replay about releasing fear for safety’s sake with Sue Busen, Energy Therapist at http://www.SafetyTeleSeminars.com

Oh, and the FREE “Personality Styles For Safety’s Sake” event is there to sign up for too.

So, what freaks you out? Tell me some things you do that are daring and the stupid things that invoke fear so I’ll have some company here! Ha, ha! Leave me a comment and throw in your website if you have one!

Be Safe!
Kelly Rudolph, “Your Personal Safety Trainer”

Tags: alex mandossian, Cathy Perkins, fear, safety, self-esteem, teleseminars, WordPress