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Never Fear, Never Quit is the international bestseller with a message that has never been more important than it is today.
The workbook edition contains the entire text of Never Fear, Never Quit PLUS Everyday Courage for Extraordinary Times: Simple Strategies for Thriving in this Turbulent World. This 2-book combo package is jam-packed with the ideas and the inspiration you need to live with courage and perseverance, and to achieve your goals.
Bonus CDs: These two full-length audio CDs are included with your purchase:
CD #1: 12 Actions You Can Take to Manage Anxiety
CD #2: Risk Management Strategies for an Uncertain World
“Never Fear, Never Quit is beautiful story of courage, love, hope, and faith.”
Mark Victor Hansen, co-creator of Chicken Soup for the Soul
“Never Fear, Never Quit says it all. We all have our down times and need the courage and perseverance to lift ourselves back up again. This book can show you the way.”
Ken Blanchard, co-author of The One Minute Manager
“Never Fear, Never Quit is a prescription for anyone wishing to conquer fear and lead a more creative life.”
Dr. C. Everett Koop, former U.S. surgeon general
“Never Fear, Never Quit shows you how to overcome the biggest single obstacle to success in adult life. It is powerful, practical, and immediately useful. Go for it!”
Brian Tracy, author of Advanced Selling Strategies
Excerpt from Never Fear, Never Quit
“You see, Paul,” Rafe continued, “fear is worrying about all the different tomorrows. Fear is worrying about the bad days that may or may not come, and even worrying about the good ones because you know they can’t last. You can dream of the future, plan for it – those are good things to do – but you can’t control all the tomorrows. You’ll have some good ones, and you’ll have some bad ones.”
Paul’s image looked at his watch and fidgeted while they waited for the elevator. Rafe looked at the two Pauls and smiled. “The more vividly you anticipate the bad days, the more certain you can be they will come. I think we’re about to see something like that happen now.”
The elevator door opened, revealing a cab jammed full of people. The door closed, leaving Paul’s image standing outside. He kicked the door with a curse and glared again at his watch as if by sheer force of will he could stop the flow of time. Then he stalked off toward the staircase.
Rafe and Paul hurried to follow Paul’s image down the stairs. Paul smiled to himself, knowing that right now his image was anticipating that the door would be locked at the bottom. What if I could tell him – tell myself – that it’s really not locked? Paul wondered. How much wasted emotional energy we could save. They followed Paul’s image through the lobby toward the conference room.
“To be afraid is to live among all the many frightening tomorrows as if they were certain to happen. To be courageous is to close off all those tomorrows and devote your attention and energy to the one today that is the only thing you ever experienced with certainty.”
Rafe stopped Paul for a minute. Without a word he extended his arm toward the crowded bank lobby. It was an obvious message: Most of the people were only partially there. Their minds were elsewhere. Many of them appeared frightened, Paul noted as he looked more closely.
Excerpt from Everyday Courage for Extraordinary Times
Distinguish between fear and risk
Whenever I speak with groups of sales professionals, I ask them what they perceive to be the major barrier to success in their field. The answer is always the same: fear of rejection.
Of course, nobody likes to be rejected. As my friend Steven Pressfield points out in his book The War of Art: Winning the Inner Creative Battle, the fear of being rejected goes back to our caveman days, when to be rejected by the tribe meant isolation and almost certain death. This innate fear was intensified over the centuries by church organizations that coupled excommunication with the threat of eternal damnation. The fear of rejection is deeply imprinted in our psyches.
But in today’s world, that fear is not rational, because in most cases the risk associated with rejection is virtually zero. When someone says no to a salesperson, he is absolutely no worse off than he was before the “rejection.” In fact, if he has the proper perspective he is actually better off, because the prospect’s lack of interest can guide him toward changes that he might need to make in his product or his pitch.
Likewise, when someone is “rejected” after a job interview, she is in exactly the same position she was in before the rejection – the risk was zero. In fact, even though she did not get the job, she will still be better off if she did a few simple things during the process. For example, she hopefully learned a lot about the company and the industry – including competitors who might be looking for someone with her talents. She might have asked people with whom she interviewed for names of other contacts for networking. By being exceptionally courteous with and curious about everyone she met (including the follow-up notes she sent), she has planted a seed that might well bear fruit the next time the company is looking for a good person.
Paradoxically, many of us are not sufficiently afraid of some of the real risks in life. For example, spending evenings being a vegetable on the couch in front of the tube is a definite risk factor for early death from heart disease (if not even earlier death from terminal boredom), but you don’t see people having mini-panic attacks before they go plop down on the sofa, like the ones they might get before picking up the phone to make a sales call.
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