I too have to respectfully disagree with you. Writing down your fears and looking for ways to minimize their (possible) impact is not something that will empower that fear. On the contrary, as other have commented, once fear is named it loses a lot of it’s subconscious ability to paralyze our actions. Pre-planned actions in case those fear manifest themselves are a must and these are actually school-taught entrepreneurial methods of doing business (the SWAT diagram). And that’s a point of support for those who advocate goals should be defined in tandem with fears. Once you know what you want and what may go wrong you are able to prepare in advance and get yourself a ticket to Success Highway.

Since I started reading Tim’s blog your comment is the first to contain THE magic word: love. Following on that I have to say I find it funny how out there you guys go from positive visualization to negative vaccine-like visualization, and who knows what may come next, in order to adapt your paradigm with the reality. I hope (and actually feel) that someday the answer will come to you.

I am curious as to what is your paradigm Timothy. Are we the result of some random accident? Are we a part of some Divine Creation Plan? Were we planted here by aliens? Is there a higher purpose in life or we should just get the best of it? Is happiness one of your fears? What are your fears Timothy, can you share them with us? You wrote in your book that no one can define happiness and therefore it’s useless to talk about it, wasn’t the American Dream about finding happiness? How do you think we should relate to the others – family, friends, complete strangers?

Thank you very much for your time

Pete

PS: On a meaner ( :D ) note – am I the only one that thinks the first speaker from the Ignite conference video has some ‘real’ reasons to want to lose his ‘fragile’ body? He reminds me of one of Tolstoi’s fables.