Use Your Will to Conquer Fears and Weaknesses

Dr Tae Yun Kim is a martial artist, an author, a speaker and much more.  Here is an excerpt from her book, The Silent Master.

Use Your Will to Conquer Fears and Weaknesses

 

Although some kind of shock is often a common way to rouse will power, it is not the only way. Sometimes you can summon your will simply from an intense desire to overcome stagnant, limited, or stifling circumstances. In this case, you have to be willing to let go of the past, and let go of your fears and weaknesses. These things have to go because they have kept you from moving in a positive direction.

Make the first rule of mental conduct a constant way of life: Identify your fears and weaknesses and conquer them. 

Instead of being inflexible like the scorpion and regarding your bad habits as "just your nature," or "just the way you are," why not try another approach? Let's assume for a moment that your negative traits are beliefs that you have adopted about yourself, and that you can use your will power to begin the process of conquering them. If you have beliefs like "I'm lazy," "I'm shy," "I'm useless," "I'm poor," "I'm stupid," let's ask: what do you get out of it? If you're holding onto to these beliefs so tightly, you must be getting something you think you want. But is it happiness you're getting? Success? Achievement? Growth?  

 I really doubt if you're getting anything good from these beliefs.