How to conquer your doubts
Are your doubts holding you back?
The way to conquer your doubts is with action.
Wondering about whether you can do it will not get it done. The only way to know for sure is to jump right in and get started.
Avoiding the challenges will only make those challenges grow bigger. Instead, walk right up to each challenge, and the closer you get, the more ways you’ll discover to get beyond it.
If you wait until conditions are perfect, all you’ll ever do is wait. Great accomplishments are given birth by starting from where you are with what you have.
As soon as you start to take action, you’ll begin to replace your doubts with courage and confidence. The more you do, the more insignificant and powerless those doubts will become.
Stop wondering and start doing. Once you’ve done it you’ll always know, without the slightest doubt, that you can.
— Ralph Marston
Just what I needed to read today!
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A great motivator for action – thanks for the reminder that it all starts with that first step.
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If you wait until conditions are perfect, all you’ll ever do is wait! How true!!
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I love the simple power of these lines:
As soon as you start to take action, you’ll begin to replace your doubts with courage and confidence. The more you do, the more insignificant and powerless those doubts will become.
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Wonderfully inspiring post Marie 🙂
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Marie,
Great post with great insight! The other evening while sharing with some friends a decision I recently made, one of the gals made a comment was made about courage. I quickly shared with them my new life motto is “Live a life of no regrets!” So, when I have a decision to make, if I have an inkling that I may regret not doing something, I do it! (Fear, although very real, is a bad excuse to not live!)
Your post is a great encouragement!
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“Fear, though real, is a bad excuse to not live” – gosh Kim, I love that!!! I am printing out your comment too!
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Marie & Kim,
A long time ago I learned that everyone has doubts and fears. It’s not just me. So…. just do it! Believe it or not, it’s as much trouble to do something as it is to do nothing at all, because you’re still stewing over it. So you make a mistake–we all do–but just get out there and live a life of no regrets. More often than not, the worse thing that can happen is someone will say “no,” and “no” doesn’t hurt. While it may mean no today, it doesn’t mean no tomorrow.
XOXOXO,
Brenda
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Brenda, this is such a wise and wonderful comment. I have printed it out for myself to inspire me when I have my own doubts. Thanks so much for sharing and for being an inspiration to us all x
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Very inspirational, Marie! I strive to live a life of no regrets, and encourage others to do the same. I found it’s the best way to a satisfying and joyful life.
Best wishes,
Jan
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So true Jan!
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Marie,
Somehow this fits in with my recent apprehension about yet another surgery. I was so full of questions, doubts and fears. My mind made the whole thing harder perhaps than it needed to be. I like Denise’s comment about as soon as you begin taking action you will replace fear and doubt with courage and confidence.
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It sounds so simple Nancy when we read those lines…perhaps we can’t trust that the answer can be this simple!
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Just do it!
Timely for me x
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A great post and some great comments too!
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