Embracing Feardom

By Darren Hodgson

Step Out Of Your Comfort Zone To Discover The Secret Of Happiness And Confidence

Embracing Feardom takes you through the use of some simple tools along with a plan on how to use them that shows you how to step outside your comfort zone in order to increase your self-confidence and bring much more happiness into your life.

Living life within your comfort zone results in a life of mediocrity at best so learning how to step outside it without being crippled by fear is a real game changer. Embracing your fears enables you to live the life you have always wanted, an extraordinary life filled with happiness, joy and excitement not just another mediocre one.

About The Author

I'm Darren Hodgson, at the age of 19, depressed and feeling like a complete failure, I had hit an emotional rock bottom. Then after a rare good day at work, I thought about a few people I knew who seemed to live everyday as a good day and I knew I wanted to be like that. That was the moment when everything changed for me.

I knew I had to take responsibility for my own life, what I have discovered since then has helped me lift my confidence to a level I never thought possible and enabled me to do some extraordinary things I'd only ever dreamed of. My life could not be any more different to what it was back then, now it's filled with happiness, fun, joy and excitement.

Why Is This Important To You

The secret of a happy satisfying life is to start thinking like a successful, happy person does, once that happens you will automatically start to attract all of your desires into your life. Embracing Feardom shows you exactly how to make that happen.
Regularly stepping outside your comfort zone leads to overcoming those things that make you feel uncomfortable, which in turn increases your self-confidence, this increase then permeates though out your whole life, the more you do this the easier it becomes and the stronger you become, it's a self-perpetuating spiral of increased confidence and happiness.

Staying as you are now by not testing the boundaries of your comfort zone has the opposite effect. The more you stay within the confines of you comfort zone the more things you fail to attempt, the more you feel like a failure which decreases your self-confidence and happiness in life. This is why it is absolutely essential that you learn the tools, techniques and strategies this book provides.

Why Is This Book Called Embracing Feardom?

Well, it's a play on words, freedom and fear. The whole idea of this book is about regularly confronting your fears in order to gain freedom from them......feardom. Embracing it as a way of living sets you down the path of the life you desire and deserve. This book will show you: • A new way to set goals and stick to them

• The power of affirmations

• Why anchors should be a part of your personal growth tool kit

• How reframing can change the way you feel about anything

• The primary motivators behind everything you do

• The harmful effect of negative people

• Why failure is never an option

• A step by step plan to follow to take your life to the next level

• And much, much more.

This book contains some of the best strategies and tactics for stepping outside your comfort zone to dramatically increase the quality of your life, presented in an easy to read, simple to use format.

Stop for a moment and think about what you will lose by not reading this book. Do you really want to continue living a life of mediocrity, I know I wouldn't. Now is the time to act, to find the spice of life, to stop trying and start living.

For the price of a Starbucks coffee and by taking action you can change your life forever, Act now, scroll to the top of the page and hit the buy now button.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Darren Hodgson
• Release date: Dec 19, 2013
• ISBN: 9781310912740

Darren Hodgson

Father of two beautiful daughters and husband to a gorgeous wife. Darren has studied personal development for 20 years, having such a passion for two decades, passing on his knowledge was an obvious next step in his life.

Book preview

Chapter 1 - Introduction

The comfort zone is an imaginary boundary that surrounds us emotionally, within it we feel safe but everything outside this boundary is accompanied to some degree by fear. This fear can be categorised into three main areas; fearlessness, stretch and paralysis.

1. Fearlessness. This is where most people hang out the majority of the time, it is a place often referred to as the comfort zone. When you get out of bed in a morning you are not paralysed by the fear that when your feet touch the floor, the floor will fall away from you and you will plummet down a 1,000 foot drop into a pit of fire to be burned alive in excruciating pain.

The act of getting out of bed in the morning is well within your comfort zone. It is something you do every day with complete confidence in your own ability to achieve it successfully, without fear of the floor collapsing beneath your feet or any other dreadful fate occuring.

2. Stretch. This is where the magic happens, it is the point where fear starts to grip you and is often referred to as the Optimal Performance Zone, in many cases the uncomfortable sensations you experience will make you more aware of what you are doing which can give you an edge that you would never experience in your comfort zone.

I like to call this area the feardom zone, it is less of a mouthful than the optimum performance zone, stepping into the feardom zone results in a person experiencing enhanced levels of concentration and focus, often accompanied by an increased anxiety level and stress response.

This is the category where you should be spending more time in if you want to change your life. Unfortunately the majority of people spend far too little time here which is why so many people lead a very unfulfilled and unhappy existence especially within western societies.

3. Paralysis. This is where your fears are so intense that you are unable to think straight and may even cause a temporary physical paralysis where the fear is so strong you find yourself unable to move until the cause of your fear has been removed.

If you spend too much time here it can have devastating consequences on your self-esteem. Self-esteem is partially built on your ability to deal with the things that you face in everyday situations. If you find yourself in the paralysis zone too often you begin to doubt your ability to deal with these situations which lowers self-esteem.

It is not all bad news, it is possible to downgrade an experience from paralysis, to stretch, to well within the comfort zone. Over time things that were once in the paralysis zone move to the feardom zone and become more achievable, the more of these hurdles you overcome the more your self-esteem increases.

What Can You Expect From This Book

Throughout this book I am going to equip you with the tools you will need to step out of your comfort zone and in doing so stretch its boundaries so what was once a fearful experience is now well within your comfort zone. This extension of boundaries is not limited to any particular fear because it permeates though out all of your life making many things that once seems impossible, possible.

I do not know what challenges you are trying to overcome by reading this book so I created the small list below that gives you an idea of what stretching your comfort zone can help you with.

Overcoming phobias

Low self esteem

Low motivation

Indecisiveness

No life enjoyment

Anxiety

Social difficulties

This book is split into 5 chapters. The one you are reading now being the first with chapters two, three and four being the nitty gritty in stretching your comfort zone and the final one is an overview of what you have learned and how you can successfully apply it.

Chapter two is all about the importance of setting goals. It is not your normal goal setting workshop stuff so please do not skip this part if you are a seasoned goal setter. In chapter three, I will give you some tools you can use to achieve the goals you have set yourself and chapter four is all about the actions you need to take to achieve the goals set in section two using the tools you will have learned in chapter three.

Up until this point you will have learned everything you need to stretch your comfort zone but if you don’t put it together correctly it can all go wrong. A bit like baking a cake, you can have all of the ingredients in front of you but if you do not follow the method of mixing them together and baking the cake correctly it will not turn out as expected which is why I have included chapter five.

The Three Zones

Throughout of this book you will hear me talk of the comfort zone in three different ways. Below you will find two diagrams, the first diagram is how a typical comfort zone looks, with the comfort zone in the middle, then the freedom zone, the zone where you stretch yourself and the paralysis zone taking up quite a large amount of the circle.

The comfort zone is where most people spend most of their lives, this is the place where you feel certain about everything, good or bad, it does not matter because you feel you will able to handle any outcome from the situation you are in.

The feardom zone is where the magic happens, this is the place where you