Fear vs. Faith: How to Stop Holding Yourself Back

In today’s episode, I share how fear creates interference between us and our divine potential. I explain how to replace fear with faith, find the light, love, and lessons in every experience, and recognize that failure is simply feedback guiding us toward growth. Most importantly, I share how to remove the interference of ego, trust in the omniscient, all-powerful, and all-knowing, and take consistent, everyday action in alignment with our divine direction to create more passion, purpose, and profitability. To join my next free Friday Training sessions, email me at [email protected] mailto:[email protected] See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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  Fear is one of the greatest forms of interference between who we are and who we're capable of becoming our potential. We often allow the fear of failure, rejection, judgment, loss, or uncertainty to influence our decisions before we've even taken action. When we become aware of our fears, we can begin transforming them into opportunities for growth, options for the future, and touches of favor from God. We may avoid starting a business, pursuing a relationship, or taking a new opportunity because we're afraid of what could go wrong.

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  And instead of focusing on what's possible, we allow imagined outcomes to determine our present actions. I'll repeat that, we allow imagined outcomes in the future to determine our present actions. The greatest risk is in failure. In fact, we are made from mistakes. It's allowing fear to prevent us from pursuing our potential, from enjoying the consistent, everyday, persistent, without quit of pursuing our potential. The first lesson of what are we afraid of is recognizing that fear itself is all that holds us back.

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  We cannot overcome what we're unwilling to acknowledge. Fear often disguises itself in the forms of procrastination, perfectionism, self-doubt, or the need for approval, the need to be right, offended, separate, inferior, superior, anxious, frustrated, angry, guilty, resentful, or worried. When we identify the fears that are driving our thoughts, the meaning of those thoughts, the perception of those thoughts, the intentions of those thoughts, they will drive our behaviors, and those behaviors will determine our results.

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  So we gain the awareness first, necessary to make more purposeful, intentional decisions. We may tell ourselves that we're waiting for the perfect opportunity to launch a business, to start a relationship, when we're actually afraid of rejection, or by potential loss, or what other people think. So many people will laugh at you, they'll scoff at you, and they will make fun of you. But if you stay the course, they will applaud you. They will tell you, I knew you could do it, all the time.

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  Fear becomes more powerful when it operates without our awareness. Recognizing our fears, the need to be right, offended, separate, inferior, superior, anxious, frustrated, angry, guilty, and resentful, worried, is the first step towards reducing the impetus and influence that it has upon us. If we can identify where fear is creating hesitation or procrastination in our personal or professional lives, we can then shorten that distance of resistance that it creates. We need to determine whether our fears are based on actual risks aligned

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  with our timing and risk tolerance, or the majority of the time on imagined outcomes. We need to elevate how much time, energy, emotion, and opportunity we are interfering or sacrificing because of our fear. We need to recognize when fear holds us back, recognize the disguises that it takes, and use our own thoughts, beliefs, feelings to shorten that distance of resistance. If you'd like to exercise on how to recognize that fear that holds us back,

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  just email me, [email protected]. [email protected]. Lesson number two. We need to understand how fear shapes our reality. We mentioned that the thoughts that we have create the perceptions that we have, create the meaning that we give those perceptions, which creates what we do, say, think, feel, and believe, which are our intentions, that then dictate our behaviors. Our thoughts influence these perceptions, and our perceptions shape the meaning we assign to our experiences.

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  When fear becomes the foundation of our thinking, when it becomes the pattern of our thinking, when it becomes our habitual nature to have a need to be right, offended, separate, inferior, superior, anxious, frustrated, angry, guilty, resentful, or worried, to name a few, it creates a chain reaction that influences those intentions and behaviors that ultimately create our results. We cannot always control our circumstances. In fact, the ego wants us to control circumstances, defend them, or prove that we can do it. But what we can influence is our results

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  by becoming more intentional about the meaning that we assign them. God has given you a gift, the gift of meaning, and you have the power to give meaning to everything that you see. So, as mentioned in lesson number one, we become aware, not only of the fear, but aware of our thoughts that are influencing these emotional responses as the ego wants us to defend, prove, or control circumstances. We need to challenge the meaning we're assigning to the setbacks, the failures, the mistakes, and uncertainty, utilizing an evaluation process

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  to determine whether our decisions are driven by the fear, the ego to defend, prove, or control, or is it in our divine direction? Categorizing these thoughts as either aligned with our divine direction or interfering with it. If you would like to get an exercise on understanding how fear shapes our reality, utilizing the thoughts, perceptions, meaning, intention, and behavior equation to create the results that you desire, email me, David means beloved, at D, my first initial, Meltzer means servant.

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  Let me be that beloved servant. Lesson number three. Transforming fear into faith. Faith doesn't mean eliminating uncertainty. It means trusting our ability to learn, adapt, and move forward despite uncertainty. When we strengthen our faith and seek wisdom to establish that faith, we redirect the energy that's consumed or interfered with by fear towards our divine direction, which is definiteness of purpose or purposeful action.

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  When we face the unexpected career setback and initially worry about the future for any reason, instead of allowing that fear to paralyze us, we can remember, remind, and recollect with the omniscient, all-powerful, and all-knowing. We can remind, remember, and reconnect with our values. We can remind, remember, and reconnect and recognize our capabilities. And aligning those capabilities with what's doing well, what's stable, what we think is doing well. And now, we can transform that fear into faith and begin exploring a new future,

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  new options, new opportunities, and new touches of favor. We don't need to know exactly how everything will work out. We need to trust our ability to respond, adjust, learn, and continue to move forward. Awareness to identify specific fears that are creating interference with our divine direction. And responding not by going over it, under it, through it, around it, don't logic it or analyze it, don't resist it, but instead, supply it with your why,

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  and stop, and drop. Remind, remember, recollect, and recognize. And then roll into that divine direction. We will see the clues, the patterns, and the choices that we make when it comes to transforming fear into faith. And we need to get into a habit of canceling any of the things we do, say, think, feel, and believe that are not aligned with our divine direction. We need to cancel the interrupting negative thoughts before they start to seep into our subconscious mind. You see, the sensory cortex in the conscious continuum, we have a physical cellular memory that lasts 24 hours.

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  That's why repetition is so important. The more repetition we have, the more statistical success we have in interrupting the negative, but in putting the positive into our subconscious mind. So we cancel anything we don't want in the subconscious mind. The subconscious mind already holds, you know, 80,000.

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  Of the thoughts and most of them are negative. And we know those because they repetitively come up, even though we try to out logic it, outanalyze it. You know, anytime you're saying, let it go, let it go, let it go, and it doesn't let go. That's part of your subconscious system. So we canceled the negative thoughts, words, beliefs, feelings, et cetera. But we also need to learn to clear our subconscious mind of the negativity. So in order to do so, we got to use gratitude. That gives us the ability to find the light, the love and the lessons in the negative thoughts, words, beliefs, feelings, forgiving ourselves because we are made from mistakes.

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  And most importantly to learn is to take accountability. To ask ourselves, what did we do to be responsible? What did we do to attract this to ourselves? And what did we do to participate in this perception that leads to the meaning that leads to the intention that leads to the behaviors that creates our results? This will allow us to release the emotional interference between us where we want to be or better, between us and the divine direction. If you would like to learn how to transform fear into faith utilizing wisdom, email me,

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  [email protected]. [email protected]. Lesson number four. Using our values to overcome fear. Using our values to overcome fear. Fear often causes us to react or respond emotionally rather than respond intentionally in our divine direction. By practicing the gratitude and forgiveness and accountability with effective communication, not just with others, but with the source, the omniscient, all-powerful, all-knowing,

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  infinite, abundant, unified system of thought. We can create a foundation that helps us navigate uncertainty with greater clarity, confidence and harmony. When we experience conflict in a relationship or business partnership, fear may cause us to become defensive, may cause us to prove ourselves where it's not necessary, or control the uncontrollable. And this causes interference or avoidance of difficult situations, conversations and meetings. By approaching the situation with empathy or forgiveness and accountability, we now

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  can create opportunities for understanding, opportunities for the resolutions, the resolutions. Because every one of these problems has a solution in it. It's just the lapse of time before it becomes a resolution or a resolution. Our values provide stability when our circumstances are uncertain. The more consistently we practice them, the more consistently and persistently we practice them in the pursuit of our potential, our divine direction, the less influence fear will have over what we do, say, think, feel and believe, over our decisions.

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  Also taking into account that every time we come up with a decision, that time, emotion and value changes immediately. So we must continue to use our values to overcome the fear that's created by the rapidity and rapid change that exists. Gratitude allows us to focus on what we have rather than the fear of losing. It allows us to find the light, the love and the lessons in every circumstance, event, person, place or thing that creates that fear.

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  Empathy actually gives us the ease that we want to identify the fear, which is the dis-ease that we don't want. Empathy or forgiveness allows us to seek understanding of where that ease lies and where the dis-ease is interfering with our potential. Instead of allowing the judgments of what people think, say, do, feel or believe about us, the way they laugh at us, scoff at us or make fun of us, or we think they're laughing at us, we think we think we know what they think. Seek the understanding through forgiveness and ease instead of allowing judgment to

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  guide our actions and reactions to create more dis-ease. Accountability counterintuitively gives us control of using our values. Accountability, as mentioned previously, what did I do? What did I do to be responsible for this? What did I do to attract this? What did I do to participate in this perceptions? And what am I supposed to learn from it? Now, all the circumstantial behavior responses with the ego to prove control and defend ourselves are alleviated and we now have control of learning, which is what life is

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  about, lessons. And the lessons will keep on coming until we learn them. The fourth is effective communication that allows us to use our values to overcome fear and live in spirit inspiration. We not only effectively communicate with other people, but connectively and collectively communicate effectively with our source, our God, our all-being, omniscient, all-powerful. When we can effectively communicate, we are identifying our divine direction and we are identifying what we're doing to interfere with it through effective communication.

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  Communicating the thoughts into the perceptions, into the meaning, into the intentions, into the behaviors. Allowing us to have control of the infinite uncontrollable circumstances that exist every single day. If you would like to learn how to use values to overcome fear with gratitude, empathy, accountability and effective communication, email me, David, means beloved, at D is my first initial, Meltzer means servant, [email protected].

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  The fifth lesson for today and how and what we are afraid of is turning that fear and failure into options, opportunities and touches of favor. Learn how to be made from mistakes. The fear of failure often prevents us from taking the risks and even assigning a timing and risk tolerance for growth. And that risk is necessary for growth, for expansion. When we recognize that setbacks are setups that provide feedback, which is difficult

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  because nobody likes feedback in the present, we can approach challenges with curiosity instead of avoidance. Our objective isn't to eliminate risk, but to understand it and to make informed decisions. You see, when we know our timing and risk tolerance, when we know our timing and risk tolerance, we never will be resentful or guilty again about mistakes, which interferes with our future because it interferes with us making future mistakes. We will be disappointed. And the example that I love to give is a lottery ticket. Everybody knows the timing and risk tolerance of a lottery ticket. It's $2.

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  It's a one in a billion chance to win a half a billion dollars. It, you know, you'll learn if you lost your $2 or won a half a billion dollars on Saturday at eight o'clock. So when you buy your $2 ticket and invariably lose, almost everybody does because of the timing risk tolerance, you are not resentful or guilty. You don't take and stop taking the chance the next week because it aligned with your timing risk tolerance. Are you disappointed? Absolutely. In fact, that disappointment may be what you're paying the $2 for. So when we understand timing risk tolerance, we can avoid holding ourselves back, limiting

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  our self-image, changing the meaning of the past by not being resentful and guilty because we're not outguessing ourselves, could've, would've, should've. We knew the timing risk tolerance and we're just disappointed that it aligned with the risk, one in a billion or more. When we invest time and resources into a business opportunity that doesn't produce the expected results, like the lottery ticket, instead of viewing the experiment as a permanent failure, we identify what we've learned and we're disappointed and we learn from it and

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  adjust our strategy and we apply those lessons to future opportunities, gaining more value by turning the fear of failure into the made from mistakes attitude. And this is how we progress, expand and grow. This is how we're fulfilled, passionate, purposeful and profitable in what we do. Failure is feedback and nobody likes feedback in the present. But it is not, and I repeat, not a final destination. And if it was, we all would be in trouble. Understanding the timing and risk tolerance and making intentional risk that allows us

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  to pursue opportunity while remaining grateful for perspective. Empathy or forgiveness for ease, accountability for control and effective communication for inspiration, we now can remain in the values for the potential downside, not just the potential itself. When we evaluate the timing and risk tolerance, we are able and capable of articulating two things. One, perceived value. Perceived value is based off of only one thing.

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  How comfortable and confident are you in articulating that value, that price, that cost? And evaluating our bottom line. What is it worth for us to do to sell, to get rid of, whatever it is? When we evaluate through timing and risk tolerance, the perceived value based off of our comfort level and confidence and our bottom line, based on math of each and every opportunities before we make decisions, we will not only never be resentful or guilty or limiting in our future, but we will maximize those opportunities by being able to articulate the perceived

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  value and bottom line based off of our timing and risk tolerance. This is how we learn to understand our financial and emotional pricing of asking and bottom lines of what it will take to get the deal done, what it's worth us doing. So many people continually ask me the same question again and again. What price should I give it? Well, determined upon three things. Your timing and risk tolerance, your ability to articulate perceived value, which is how comfortable and confident are you in asking for that price?

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  And most importantly, knowing your bottom line financially and emotionally that you're willing to do it for, or sell it for, or buy it for. If we understand our timing and risk tolerance, perceived value and bottom line, we could turn the fear of failure into options, opportunities that touches a favor by eliminating resentment and guilt from the equation and the limitation that it causes to our self-image, which will limit our futures. If you would like to learn more about how to determine your timing and risk tolerance, how to articulate perceived value and understand your financial and emotional bottom lines,

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  we can teach you how to turn fear into failure and that failure into opportunity, options and touches of favor. If you'd like the replay from today, the guys, the exercises of lesson number five, email me [email protected]. [email protected].

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  The final lesson, taking a definite miss of purpose, taking an intentional action despite being afraid. What are we afraid of anyway? Awareness without action doesn't create transformation. We can only understand our fears, remembering, reminding, recollecting, recognizing our limitations, the meaning that we give our past mistakes, failures, setbacks, defining moments, historical relevances of the past.

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  We develop strategies to overcome these beliefs, but our results change only when our intentions and behaviors change as well. When we start doing, saying, thinking, feeling and believing aligned with our divine directions. I can analyze where someone's going to be or better by understanding their intentions and behaviors because consistent execution helps to build the comfortability and confidence and momentum, the inspiration of where we want to be or better.

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  We hesitate to make an important phone call, to pursue a partnership, or have a difficult conversation because we're afraid to be uncomfortable, we're afraid of rejection, we're afraid of the future. But once we take action by doing, saying, thinking, feeling and believing, we realize immediately the anticipation was far more limiting than the experience itself. Worry is not only a wasted emotion, but it is a duplicative negative. It is interfering with where we want to be or better, but it's also wishing for what we don't want.

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  We will never become fearless and we don't have to become fearless to move forward, but we do have to become intentional. And are these actions of what we do, say, think, feel and believe that create our experiences? Our experience through repetition builds confidence and confidence is what builds strength, power, passion, purpose and profitability of our ability to pursue future options, opportunities and touches of favor. When we can identify the fears that prevent us from pursuing an important opportunity,

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  where we could categorize things as either aligned with our divine direction or interfering with it, we can now shorten that distance or resistance through wisdom and faith. We can now assign more time to divine direction and alleviate less time on the interference that we create through a fear. When we commit to our thoughts, our perceptions, the meaning, the intention of what we do, say, think, feel and believe that are now categorizing behaviors as aligned or interfering with where we want to be or better, we will significantly increase the results that we

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  desire or better, exponentially increase the results that we desire or better. We need to focus on what we can control through accountability, through learning that than rather trying to predict the uncontrollable of every outcome. You cannot predict the future. The only prediction that can be successful for the future is it'll be 24 hours tomorrow unless it's the last day of your life. I'll repeat that. Don't try to predict the future. Don't try to predict future outcomes. The only outcome that you can predict for the future is that there'll be 24 hours unless

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  it's the last day of your life. So use that 24 hours to assign time to what's most important to you. Your sleep, your health, your family, your faith, your finance, maybe even the study of time and especially the study of relativity or the meaning you're going to give that time. Celebrate the celebratable, celebrate the progress and use each of these lessons and experiences to build on each other, to exponentially expand and to create momentum, the exponentiality of energy.

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  If you would like the exercises and guides for taking these intentional actions to categorizing your non-negotiable and negotiable to assigning time, email me [email protected]. David means beloved, @D is my first initial, Meltzer means servant. Let me be your beloved servant. [email protected]. So interesting how we allow fear to interfere with our lives. So interesting how our greatest risk isn't failure. It isn't what other people think.

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  It isn't that they laugh at us, scoff at us, make fun of us. But knowing they will apply us, it's allowing fear to prevent us from pursuing or interfere with us, F E A R, interfere with us from pursuing our potential. It interferes with the enjoyment of, it interferes with the consistency of, it can interferes with the persistency of, and it interferes with the pursuit of our truth, our potential, our essence. Recognizing that fear holds us back will allow us to understand how fear itself can shape our

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  reality and transform our fear into wisdom and faith. Using our values, gratitude, empathy, accountability, and effective communication. Gratitude to give you perspective, empathy to give you ease, accountability to give you control, and effective communication to apply our why, to live in spirit, which will turn fear and failure into opportunities, options, and touches of favor. When we take the intentional ability to do, say, think, feel, and believe, oh, please

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  meet yourself, when we take that intentional action despite the fear, when we understand our timing and risk tolerance, perceive value, and bottom line, we can understand what we truly are afraid of, fear itself. Our time, our energy, and our in attention, and our intention are the most valuable assets we have. When we allow the interference or the fear to dictate our decisions, we sacrifice the opportunities, options, and touches of favor that allow us to grow, that allow us to contribute,

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  that allow us to experience our full potential. Learning to navigate fear allows us to live with greater intention, greater purpose, and fulfillment. Although we may experience financial, emotional, and physical setbacks, rejections, difficult relationships, and of course, those unexpected failures, if you want to make God laugh, come up with a well-developed plan. Yet each of these experiences provides an opportunity to become more resilient, to strengthen

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  our values, and to make decisions that move us closer to the future that we can create. We don't need to eliminate fear from our lives. We need to stop allowing fear to determine our future. We need to stop interfering with our divine direction. We need to stop drop and roll when we do have a need to be right, offended, separate, inferior, superior, anxious, frustrated, or angry. When we replace hesitation with intentional action, when we replace judgments of others

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  with empathy and forgiveness, when we replace uncertainty with faith and wisdom, we can create more opportunities, options, and touches of favor. We can create more opportunity to live and to enjoy the consistent, everyday, persistent, without quit, pursuit of our potential, our truth, our best self, our higher self. What are we afraid of? We're afraid of the interference that we create between us and where we want to be or better, interfering with our divine direction. This has been the what are we afraid of training. I appreciate everyone.

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  If you would like the guides, exercises, the replay of this training, just email me, [email protected]. David means beloved, at D is my first initial, Meltzer means servant. Let me be a beloved servant to send you the replay of the guides, the exercises, and books for free, [email protected]. All right, we will take some Q and A now, but first let me just reset a few things. One, we're going to be in Scottsdale this weekend, virtually with Tim Story. He'll be there live. Come and join us virtually with Tim Story this weekend.

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  Then we will be at SoFi Stadium for a high-level CEO mastermind, then in Naples, Florida, holding court meetups, VIP dinners, and all these. Come to the car wash, [email protected]. If you're going to be around Scottsdale, SoFi Stadium, LA, Southern California, or Naples, Florida, email me, [email protected]. If you want to stay informed and invited of the over 200 cities that we're in, please join our text community. Area code is 949-298-2905. And also, we have a QR code here on the multicast to join our Strategic Alliance Group, which

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  every Monday, we meet virtually with thousands of people to help each other and know people to help each other. I personally answer questions and give personal introductions to my inner circle, the spheres of influence that can change your life. All right, let me welcome into the house the amazing Mike Allen. Mike, how are you doing? Good, my friend. We got anybody for some questions today?

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  Yep, we got a few queued up already. I've been talking on the back end here, so they're super excited. First thing we got up is River, if you don't mind, admitting yourself to the bottom left corner and ask David your question. That's right.

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  Hi, David.

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  Hi.

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  My question is, you talk of frequency a lot and intention, and I just wanted to know if it was the, I guess, the intent, like the frequency with the intention of your thought that you're putting in.

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  Great question. Yeah, great question. So what creates frequency is, everything has a vibration to it. And so the earth vibrates the slowest, then plants, animals, humans, then sound, then light, and then thought. And the thought that vibrates the fastest is the truth, your essence, your love, your truth. And so we can only be aware of that which vibrates equal to or less than you. So when we are intentional, we are intentional about what? What we say, what we do, what we think, what we believe, and what we feel. And the more aligned that is in our divine direction, the more aligned that is in our

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  truth, the higher the frequency, the greater the awareness. And that awareness allows us to see when we're in the divine direction or when we're interfering with it. And so intention is directly relative to frequency because it is the indicator of what we do, say, think, feel, and believe, and allows and elevates our awareness, which impacts our behaviors, and our behaviors determine our results. And so frequency is essential in the process of elevating our awareness, and awareness is the key to making things easy. Because if we're aware, for example, of who to hang out with, who not to hang out with, if we're aware of this is interfering with my divine direction, we have now significantly

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  increased the statistical success in everything that we do. Imagine, like, I was kind of suckered into meditation by being aware of when to buy or sell. If I could elevate my awareness, when to buy or sell, talk about an easy way to make a lot of money for the sake of helping others and having fun, which is my mission to empower over a billion people to do so. Thank you so much for the question, and yes, frequency is directly relative to your intentions as well as the awareness of what you're afraid of. All right, Mikey, who's up next?

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  We got, per usual, my Friday training, I'm going to be Friday training without him. Our Meltzer double, Mr. Eric Meltzer, what do you got? Well, thank you so much. My question is, can regret, can the... Can regret be used as rocket fuel to face one's fears?

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  Can regret be rocket fuel to face one's fears? Interesting. So regret is a meaning that you give your past. I think that regret could help you get up and get started. It can help you get back up and get restarted. But it's not going to get you there. It's going to interfere with you and your potential. Uh, resentment and guilt and regret and worry. Fear itself can get you up, get you started, get you back and up and get you back started, but it's not going to get you there. The only thing that's going to get you there is to understand where you're interfering with your divine direction.

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  Because without alleviating dissipating and dissolving what you're doing to interfere with your divine direction. That will inhibit you from getting there. But I think there is a value, a motivational, not an inspirational. Right? Motivation gets you up, gets you back up, gets you started, gets you there. Inspire, gets you back up, gets you started, gets you back there. But it won't get you to where you want to be. Inspiration, it's the only way to do that. And regret, resentment, guilt and worry do not get you there. They are not in your divine direction, but they can be utilized for motivation to get you up, get you started. Get you back up and get you back started. Does that sound fair, Big E?

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  Yes, thank you. This is really helpful. I appreciate it.

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  Thank you so much, my friend. I will talk to you soon.

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  Perfect. Thank you, Eric. Per usual, uh, we got Maria here for the question. Maria, if you don't mind, I'm meeting yourself and ask me a question.

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  Thank you so much. Thank you. Good morning.

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  Good morning.

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  Uh, my question to you is like, how do we distinguish between fear that's trying to protect us? And fear that's actually protected, prevented us from becoming who we're meant to be?

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  Yeah. So that's a great question and it's clearly defined by your divine direction. So when we know what we want personally, experientially, giving and receiving. When we know who we can help and who can help us. When we know how best to use time and assign it to that divine direction. We then can prioritize. And as we prioritize, we can apply our why. When we're afraid, we know that our response will from the ego, if we're afraid. So we're going to defend ourselves, control the situation, or try to prove ourselves. This is where timing and risk tolerance, perceived value, bottom line come in.

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  So when we look down off the building and we're afraid of heights. We look at our timing and risk tolerance and say, should I jump? What's the perceived value of me jumping? What's the bottom line of me jumping? And most people realize that fear is protecting us, right? It's defending us. We don't have anything to prove by jumping or we're not going to control anything. So we go ahead and we change our behaviors because of that type of fear. But in the same respect, as we analyze the timing and risk tolerance. So we're worried that people will laugh at us, scoff at us and make fun of us. We're worried about what other people think.

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  We are giving the wrong meaning to the past failures, mistakes, setbacks, defining moments and historical relevances. And we assess the timing risk tolerance and there's more emotional fear than a physical fear. We can now shorten that distance of resistance and create a categorization of the stop, drop and roll of that. Worry, what other people would think, what's missing, what we don't have, what other people want for us, what social media says we have for us. And now we can move back into our divine direction without having a fear that is not or is aligned with our divine direction. If it's not aligned with our divine direction, stop, drop and roll.

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  If it is aligned with our divine direction, listen to the fear and change your behavior to per- for to defend yourself, to prove yourself or control yourself. Does that sound fair?

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  Yeah, actually applied that on my first birthday, five years.

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  Oh, very good. Congratulations.

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  I didn't even know I was doing that. And I guess, I guess the key takeaway from your answer is the word alignment.

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  Alignment with your assignment. That's what I say. Beautiful. Thank you, Maria.

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  Yeah, thank you.

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  Amazing. We got questions flying in here. Um, all right. Malika, you're up next. And Judith, if you're ready, you'll be on deck as well.

• 44:11Speaker 03

  Hi, David. This is Malika.

• 44:13Speaker 00

  Hello, Malika.

• 44:14Speaker 03

  How are you?

• 44:15Speaker 00

  Phenomenal would be an understatement. How are you?

• 44:18Speaker 03

  I'm wonderful. So I am wonderful.

• 44:21Speaker 00

  Good.

• 44:21Speaker 03

  My question to you is, we talk a lot about that divine direction, but how do we know? If everything that we go through works out for our good, how do we know if we're divvy on that divine path? And going what we're creating?

• 44:39Speaker 00

  Yeah, and remember it's a direction and we don't know what we don't know. So, you know, I'll remind you of my favorite quote, you're either humbled or you're about to be. So, uh, each and every day I'm reevaluating what I want, who I can help, who can help me, how can I get that done? In alignment with the divine direction, what's important to me. But I'm also, uh, adhering 12 hours of my day, assigning and aligning with my assignment time. For what I know to be in my divine direction. I know a minimum amount of time every day on my sleep, on my health, on my family, on my faith, on my finance. On the study of time and relativity will provide me 90% of my success through humility that I don't know what I don't know.

• 45:21Speaker 00

  But I do know that if I'm sleeping at an ultimate level, if I take care of my health at an ultimate level, if I take care of my family at an ultimate level. If I take care of my faith at an ultimate level, if I take care of my finance at an ultimate level. If I study time to be more efficient, effective, statistically successful, more productive, accessible and gracious with that time. And give it a meaning, a meaning of divine direction. That the other 12 hours of, I'm not really sure if this is my divine direction. I'm just trying to figure out what I'm doing to interfere with it because it's much easier to determine what's interfering with your divine direction. Then what that divine direction actually is.

• 46:02Speaker 00

  And you're allowing your source to protect, promote, love and perfect you. Because most days the evidence won't be available or will be contrary to where you want to be or better. And so it's that wisdom and faith of understanding this is interfering or it's aligned with my divine direction. Knowing that I don't know what I don't know. But my non-negotiable behaviors of sleep, health, family, faith, finance, study of time and relativity will get me to where I want to be or better.

• 46:32Speaker 03

  Sure.

• 46:34Speaker 00

  Thank you. I appreciate your question. Thank you.

• 46:37Speaker 02

  All right, moving on next here, uh, Judith, unmute yourself and ask your question, please.

• 46:44Speaker 03

  You know, I was asking about, you know, how do we know that it's a good fear, bad fear? But I wanted to just tell Dave, I'm checking in and I'm doing wonderful out here in Illinois and thank you for your training. Just thank you for being who you are.

• 47:02Speaker 00

  Oh, well, thank you for being who you are and thank you for showing up. And I want to thank everybody and remind them, look, join our Strategic Alliance group. We'd love to see you on Mondays, uh, with us virtually as well. Thousands of people have joined and are helping one another and know people to help each other. Uh, we also do a free training on Wednesdays. I do Ask Me Anythings on Mondays as well. We are loaded. We have free stuff. We have group stuff. We have one-on-one stuff and business advisory and investments. And, uh, we, uh, have something for everyone to be a part of this community of people that want to help each other and know people to help each other. So if you'd like to join us, just email me, [email protected]. Mikey, I got time for one or two more. Let's see what we got.

• 47:48Speaker 02

  All right, let's see. I mean, another question going to the stage here, self-pierced society. If you don't mind, unmute yourself, please, and ask me a few questions.

• 47:56Speaker 03

  Okay, good morning. Glad to be here. I'm new on Clubhouse of about three months. And um, so this is my first time here, but David, my question is about, so I was trained in corporate for years, working with this one company eighteen and a half years. And we're trying to, of course, speak and do all the things. It was the great IBM. But however, when speaking about my own business, I developed this very deep fear. So recently, um, I was invited to another women's entrepreneurial group to speak on,

• 48:40Speaker 03

  you know, my subject about me. And I did okay. So I thought it was over. But this is something else fucked up. So what is your advice on just overall fear? Is there ever a time when it's just our fear to where we just conquer, you know, everything as it relates to our business and being an entrepreneur that don't care about the opinions of others when it comes to that business area? Or will, am I going to continue to have these different levels of fear depending on what I'm tackling as it relates to my business?

• 49:11Speaker 00

  Guaranteed, the fear will always be there. It's part of uh, time, right? There's uncertainty and so that creates fear. And what you will do is you'll get better at responding to fear. You'll, instead of spending days, weeks, months and years, interfering with your divine direction, you'll spend minutes and moments. Over this practice of twenty years for me, I now spend minutes and moments, but there isn't a day that goes by that I'm certain. I'm certain of the twenty-four hours that I get, unless it's the last day of my life. So there's a bit of uncertainty even in the twenty-four hours that I'm certain about. But beyond that, fear evokes itself just as many times today than it did twenty years ago.

• 49:55Speaker 00

  The difference is the amount of time that I spend in fear and how I respond to that fear. And so I'm a minutes and moments person now. I'm living the majority of my time in my divine, in my divine direction and at ease and abundance, the world of more than enough. I'm giving more, I'm giving more, I'm asking for more, uh, I'm receiving more so that I can give even more than more and be given more than more, receive more than more and ask for more than more than more. So I know where I'm going to end up. Not in a zero-sum game of giving more and receiving less, but instead a world of more than enough of everything. So just be settled in the fact that fear will be omnipresent.

• 50:39Speaker 00

  It always will be here. And uh, we will uh, without a doubt, get better at spending less time in fear and more time in divine direction. That's awesome.

• 50:51Speaker 03

  Oh, wow. Wow. Thank you. Minutes and moments. That was definitely a good takeaway. Thank you. I really appreciate that. Thank you.

• 50:58Speaker 00

  You got it. All right, Mike, uh, real quick, got time for one more question.

• 51:03Speaker 02

  I think we should some time to the chat as well. It's for giving you back for our noise, multitasking as well. Um, last question here from the chat, people submitting. One is this from Su Hani. How do we see ourselves as decision makers, especially because you attract too much negative attention? And there is no support. So how do we see ourselves as decision makers? Especially because we attract too much negative attention and powers that does.

• 51:26Speaker 00

  Well, I think that's the wrong perception of decision making, right? We're going to always, when we make a decision, uh, know that time, emotion and value change. We're also going to know that whether it's written, implied, oral or with consideration or out, a decision uh, with time, emotion and value changing, uh, will always have to have some sort of adjustment to it. Uh, and when we know that uh, decisions are necessary and it's more prioritization of the decisions in alignment with our divine direction, not decisions based off of interference, uh, then we can realize that

• 52:09Speaker 00

  uh, our decisions are our decisions and that they will only be a source of information, a source of adjustment. And so I use a triple A strategy, which I'm happy to send to everyone. Uh, [email protected]. I get alignment first, then I make the decision or take action, but I prepare for adjustment, knowing that time, motion and value changes instantly. Whether it's written, oral, implied, with consideration, without, every decision I make. And of course, I'm not worried what other people think or think that they think or all their laughing, scoffing or judgment or hate. Ten percent of the people are going to love your decision.

• 52:52Speaker 00

  Ten percent of the people are going to hate your decision. Other eighty percent won't pay attention to it. But more importantly, use the triple A strategy, [email protected] to make your decision. Alignment, action, decision and adjustment. Get that exercise and guides. It'll change your life. Most importantly, be more interested than interesting. Be kind to your future self and do good deeds.