How to Overcome the Fear of Success (Yes, there is such a thing)Written by Dennis Eppestine
Our minds work in wondrous and mysterious ways, don't they? The power of imagination is both a blessing and a curse. All greatest inventions have come about because of power of imagination. Think of respected inventors of 1800's and you just know - they imagined their success before they achieved it. But on other hand, imagination can paralyze a person with fear. Walking down a deserted street at night can really get that imagination working overtime. And who hasn't imagined some horrible fate happening to one of their loved ones, when they aren't home on time? Every new thing we do has a measure of fear involved along with joy and excitement. Yes, even success. Along with excitement, there is an element of fear when we imagine great success. It might be a fear of others depending on you. For example, you create a great new product, employ thousands of people, and then something bad happens and all those people are out of work. Or say you create an information product. Well now everyone expects you to be an expert, right? That's just too much. What if they ask you something you don't know?
| | REMEMBER TO THINK PINKWritten by David Stoddard
When it comes to influential people of business world, names that come to mind include Carnegie, Rockafeller, Ford, Gates and others. Their life stories are worth looking into just to see where they came from and how they got to where they got.But perhaps none has been more of a force in business world (or in field of inspiring others to become more than they thought they could become), than Mary Kay Ash. The cosmetics queen best known for her pink packages, pink cadillacs passed away on Thursday from natural causes. Mary Kay is mentioned here not so much as a news update, but as a bit of an inspiring story. It shows one's current situation does not have to remain same. Where you begin doesn't mean nearly as much as where you end up. And for cynics in all of us, those who made something of themselves most likely worked at it instead of had it handed to them. Her personal story includes being born in 1918, taking care of her seriously ill father when she was 6 while her mother worked in a restaurant 14 hours a day. Later, she married a radio personality at age of 17. But that began to dissolve when he went into service. She took a job as a part-time sales person selling household goods at parties. She studied to be a doctor, but stuck with sales as that was her calling. Years later, she took a position with a direct sales company. But she quit when a male colleague who had been hired as her assistant was promoted at more than twice her salary.
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