HOW TO MANAGE FEAR IN THE MARKETPLACE

Here are some tips to help circumvent fearful working environments, so that you can live up to your fullest potential, wherever you are.

• Be careful not to create inadvertently a culture of fear. Fear stifles creativity, decision-making and productivity. An environment where people can’t make any mistakes are a swamp of mediocracy and bureaucracy and for everyone around you it’s simply just window dressing.
• Don’t fan the flames of discontent. This is why you will feel burned out and worthless. Help people to step into their divine calling by allowing them to use their gifts and abilities.
• As a Leader don’t let your disappointments turn into discouragement. Disappointments are related to the failures of your own hope and expectations, but discouragement evolves losing hope and confidence. Without confidence there is no reward and total possession and enjoyment is being withhold or removed.
• Reinforce 4 principles for a creative liberating working environment:
  i) it’s okay to make mistakes, as long as it is made with good intentions
  ii) honesty is required
  iii) accountability is required
  iv) treat everyone with respect
• You are in this world but not of this world. In this we need to learn how to become capable of achieving a state of true separation without falling over the edge of what is sensible.
• Power is the ability to do with a conscious state of knowing the right thing to do. Anything missing from this equation is simply an action that has rippling consequences.
• In Life there are a series of wrecks and rescues. Teach people around you not to live in fear but to live in appreciation.
• Having a deep-seated fear of coming up short can become your Company’s culture of pretentiousness, where everyone’s aim is to take what they feel belongs to them and doing whatever it takes to get to the top.
• Fear can become a motivator, the moment you recognise this in your team, as a leader you have the authority to give them a diagnosis and a prescription to regain direction and perspective.
• By focussing on your priorities you eliminate all the confusion.
• A great leader creates a world where people feel alive, present and open.
• Give your team an introduction of believe and support them to continually conspire to achieve what was first a dream. This is their journey where failure will meet success and impossible will meet possible.
• Sometimes things in our lives can get so cluttered and messy, but it is beneath the surface of things, where true reality resides. This is where you need to put your circumstances in proper perspective.
• It is not what you believe when things are going well. It is what you truly believe when things are going wrong.
• Fear kills more dreams than failure ever will.
• Fear-based living crushes joy, dismantles relationships, increase stress and shortens life. Live and lead with courage
• We’re not afraid of who you are. We’re afraid of who we think we’re not. Start believing yourself.
• You can’t always control what happens to you but you can control what happens in you.
• Life is not about avoiding failures; it’s about choosing to learn well when you have failed.
• Your problems are never bigger than your calling. You have sufficient weapons to overcome and solve them all. ~ Dr. Nicky van der Westhuizen
• See your problems as an opportunity to step into your destiny ~ Dr. Nicky van der Westhuizen
• Watch out offence is a form of jealousy.
• How many times are you taking account of evil done to you?
• Don’t let uncertainty rob you of the importance of the moment.
• Have you ever felt mentally exhausted and discouraged or been in a situation that appears hopeless?
• Don’t avoid tough decisions, if it is mined properly you’ll end up discovering gold.
• What do you do when there are no good and bad decisions instead you are facing only bad and worse decisions?
• Courage is to do the right thing; wisdom knows the right thing to do
• To be embroiled in a bitter issue that heightening tension is only an opportunity to be marked with honor by avoiding a fight.
• When we go through difficult situations, we may choose one of three paths: fight, flight, fright.
• What is dominating the landscape of your mind?
• The greatest glory in living lives not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall ~ Nelson Mandela
• I’m a slow walker, but I never walk back ~ Abraham Lincoln
• Trials are the schoolroom for our life’s greatest work. ~ Dale Partridge
• Be smart enough to change your plan before you change your dream. But most of all, be a force willing to move forward regardless of the pain. ~ Dale Partridge
• If you can harness your ability to focus, fight off discouragement, and press into your gifting eventually you’ll be good. Then you’ll be great. And a few years down the road,you’ll be world-class. And then, probably without even noticing, you’ll also be a millionaire. At least that’s how it worked for me. Dale Partridge
• Opulence is shameless when your soul suffocates with discontentment.
• Pivotal moments are the outcome of sound decisions which were intentionally made from yesterday’s mistakes.
• A great leader doesn’t show trepidation when insulted, instead it will challenge his opponent by not retaliating and by turning the other cheek.
• We need to be like an infantry warrior, moving so quickly that the artillery will miss his target with every attempt. We can’t become sitting ducks for our enemy.
• Effort can trump ability and conventions are made to be challenged ~ Malcolm Gladwell
• Motivation isn’t permanent. It is renewed each day. Vision isn’t indefinite. It is cast each morning. Discipline isn’t owned. It is fought for by the minute. And dreams are not free. They are realized by ruthless individuals unwilling to give up. ~ Dale Partridge
• If Jesus started a company, what would it look like? My motivation shifted from financial success to impact success. ~ Dale Partridge
• I quickly learned what successful people truly needed was momentum. Their success was dependent upon their consistent growth, reach, and influence. ~ Dale Partridge
• Those who don’t manage their dreams wellwill always work for those who do. ~ Dale Partridge
• Pursuing a dream before you pursue a planoften leaves people with a life they never intended. Before you fall in love with an idea, spend time painting the big picture. For my wife and I, it’s always been in the form of a five-year It’s built of three simple questions. In five years, where will we live and why? Outside of family, what will be our chief focus? What needs to happen between now and then? ~ Dale Partridge
• Be so good the world can’t ignore you. ~ Steve Jobs