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The fear of success is very real and very complicated. Perhaps, you don’t think you deserve to be successful, or that your accomplishments don’t warrant a celebration. Maybe you’re just uncomfortable with the attention success brings. Whatever the case, your fear of success will hold you back. This means missed opportunities and more limitations, both of which contribute to an unfulfilling life. It’s time to learn how to rejoice when you achieve success, with a little help from hypnosis.

The fear of success is genuine. Maybe you believe you don’t deserve the benefits from a job well done, or that your accomplishments shouldn’t warrant any special attention. You might be afraid you aren’t ready to cope with the changes success will bring. The problem isn’t your success, it's that your fear of success can hold you back in life. It’s time to eliminate your fear of succeeding, with a little help from hypnosis.

Michelle has always had a problem with the word fearless. Facing your demons doesn't mean you're fearless; it means you fear them, but you do it anyway! So for 100 days, she faced 100 of her fears, and the message went viral. Written in Michelle's hilarious, honest voice and driven through storytelling, expert interviews, and practical tools, Hello, Fears conveys the lessons she learned from facing each fear and inspires listeners to make the right choice - the brave choice.

From terror attacks to the War on Terror, bursting real-estate bubbles to crystal meth epidemics, sexual predators to poisonous toys from China, our list of fears seems to be exploding. And yet, we are the safest and healthiest humans in history. Irrational fear is running amok, and often with tragic results. In the months after 9/11, when people decided to drive instead of fly - believing they were avoiding risk - road deaths rose by 1,595. Those lives were lost to fear.

Anxiety disorders are the most common mental illnesses in the world. But in our workplaces, anxiety has been a hidden problem—there in plain sight but ignored. Until now. The Anxious Achiever is a book with a mission: to normalize anxiety and leadership. As leadership expert and self-proclaimed anxious achiever Morra Aarons-Mele argues, anxiety is built into the very nature of leadership. It can—and should—be harnessed into a force for good.

In The Courage Habit, certified life coach Kate Swoboda offers freedom from the outdated belief that one must be fearless in order to live courageously. Instead, she defines courage as a willingness to act on what we want in spite of our fears and offers an evidence-based program to help readers conquer their inner critic, overcome worries, increase resilience, work toward their highest aspirations, and make courage a habit every day.

The biggest obstacle that all sales distributors must overcome is fear: fear of rejection, fear of making decisions, fear of change, fear of failure, and of course, the big one - fear of success. It is this fear - and all of its cousins, such as worry, anxiety, and self-doubt - that paralyzes you and keeps you from higher levels of success. In this program, Lisa Jiminez provides a three-step process that empowers you to overcome fear, reject rejection, and be free to get on with creating and achieving what you really want.

International risk expert David Ropeik takes an in-depth look at our perceptions of risk and explains the hidden factors that make us unnecessarily afraid of relatively small threats and not afraid enough of some really big ones. This audiobook is a comprehensive, accessible, and entertaining mixture of what's been discovered about how and why we fear—too much or too little. It brings into focus the danger of The Perception Gap: when our fears don’t match the facts, and we make choices that create additional risks.

Achieving and sustaining success is difficult. Why do some people struggle to get started or stay the course? Why do others seem to sabotage their hard-earned victories? What makes some people stumble and fall when they seem to possess the requisite skills to soar? Most importantly, what can be done to change these patterns and their outcomes? Based on years of research, Mastering Fear answers these questions and many more with its surprising perspectives on stress, fear, and the single most important skill necessary to achieve maximum results.

Wouldn't it be great to approach the obstacles in your life without anxiety holding you back? It won't happen overnight, but if you begin today to practice the key tactics I describe in this audiobook, there is every reason in the world to embrace with confidence the knowledge that you will master your fear.