Deal With Your Doubts

What holds people back is fear and the critic in their head. Those are the two things I'm certain of. If people didn't have fear of what others thought or failure - like I'm big on failure, I have failed a lot. I think fail fast, get up faster. Fear of failure, fear of shame, fear of public ostracism, big ones. And then just the basic, who am I to do this? I always think, who am I not to do this? First, it's a psychology technique. You just have them name all the projected fears and bad things that are going to happen. That's a standard thing: what are all the worst things that could happen? Let's say all those things happen. First, you have to face the fear and make it not the demon but an incentive. The worst things, as an author once said, the worst things that have ever happened to me never happened, was Mark Twain. So much of what keeps me back or keeps most people back is the what-ifs. I say, bring on the what-ifs. It's okay. And how's that going to be? And what will it be like when you're dead? What if you aren't killed? Then what is it going to be like? That's a possibility for sure. But what are some other possibilities?