What do you look for daily?

When everyone around us told us that we were not going to survive Mexico – that we’d be robbed or mobbed and everything else in between; that we were “defenseless” – we fought really hard internally not to believe them… And we still we got scared.

We didn’t want to die.

Fear got into our space and we began seeing EVERYTHING as a threat to our lives.

We wouldn’t leave the house after sundown. We carried our bags strapped in front us. And with every 3-5 steps, we’d turned and looked behind our backs, just to make sure we weren’t being followed.

We became paranoid. We began looking for danger.

Well, we got what we were looking for – a near death experience.

The experience shocked us out of our fear-based reality, and taught us to look for something else. 

This was what we found:

Choose what you’re looking for.

Remember your stack of “Current Fears” post-it notes from this one powerful exercise?

How do you turn those fears into empowering beliefs that help you see what you can do – that you’d not only survive (like we did) – you’d triumph and thrive?

Follow these 3 simple steps:

1. Take a deep breath, then using a pen, strike out fear number one
2. Replace it with a belief that empowers you – write it down
3. Work through that whole list

That’s it.

Now you have a stack of empowering beliefs through which you see and manifest your reality.

We call them our “power-ups” – reminders to choose what we’re looking for.

So the next time you find yourself running into your deepest fears left-right-and-center, ask yourself – “What’cha looking for?” – and choose again.

Leave a reply in the comments section below and share what “power-ups” you chose over those fears.

We’d love to hear from you, and your choices might inspire others to choose better, too!

Cheers to choosing better,
@taynval

P.S. Know someone who’s limited and bounded by fears and could do with some “shock therapy” (laughs included)? Share this and this post with them!