There is one thing you can be sure of. I guarantee that where fear reigns in your life, so does failure and frustration.

• Fear paralyzes your mind.
• Fear destroys your faith.
• Fear destroys your hope and your vision.

The wisest man who ever lived said: Without a vision the people perish.

Yes, without hope and a vision, you will in many ways (if not literally), lie down and die.

So we have established that the biggest obstacle to your success and achieving your life purpose is fear.

Knowing your enemy is definitely the first step towards conquering your enemy.

You cannot hit a target when you don’t know where it is right? And what is our target? Fear.

Now that you know what your biggest obstacle is you CAN conquer it.

I am sure that you already know that every positive change in your lives starts with a DECISION.

This is why today’s affirmation of the Lifestyle Freedom Club’s 210 Affirmation Challenge that we are following is so important.

Affirmation #156 declares:

Today’s affirmation is a declaration of your DECISION. You are deciding that fear will no longer reign over your life. Be sure to make this declaration out loud with boldness and conviction. Repeat this several times during your day.

Today’s Challenge – Actions Steps To Take: (This will help you to follow through on your decision).

1. Take some time to sit down and reflect on in what ways fear has been hindering your progress. Write these down in your journal.
2. Now read at least 10 pages of the inspirational or motivational book you are reading that the moment. If you are not reading such a book, I highly recommend you start with the book of Proverbs or Psalms in the Bible, Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett, The Everyday Visionary: Focus Your Thoughts, Change Your Life by Jesse Du Plantis or Champions Are Born, Losers Are Made by John Di Lemme.
3. Write down some positive actions steps you can make to conquer any fears you have detected in your life (inspired by what you have read).
4. Now here is where the “rubber meets the road”. It is time to take action. You have made a decision to conquer fear, you have detected some areas of fear, you have found some tips to conquer these areas, you have decided on some actions steps – now take the action!!

Fear will not stop me from achieving my Why

I know that this is your decision and your declaration because:

Resource:
Every affirmation in this 210 Day Affirmation Challenge is authored by John Di Lemme, founder of the 210 Day Lifestyle Freedom Club Be sure to check out this challenge and download your free motivational mp3s and mp4 from here as well.

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Fear.

Every day, the news is creating alarm in the minds and hearts of millions of people in this world.

If you even dare focus on what is happening around you, your mind will soon be filled with fear and doubts about your own future as well.

Here are some quick headlines which I am sure you will agree could certainly have you trembling with FEAR, IF you stop to meditate on them. .

• Bank of America stocks down.
• Bank of America being sued by AIG. .
• S & P is down 500 points. It is not even sliding, it is plummeting.
• Investors lose one trillion dollars in one day.
• Riots in London.

Now, I am NOT advocating that you and I become like ostriches burying our heads in the sand. No, these are very real situations and are definitely affecting millions of people across the world.

However, if you stop to meditate and FOCUS on these situations, fear could so easily grip your mind and heart. You cannot afford to let this happen, and neither will you allow it to. How do I know that? You are a champion, and champions focus on winning, not on the obstacles that cross their paths.

Yes these situations are real:

• They ARE happening around us.
• They may well have affected you already.
• They are likely to affect us all in some way.

BUT, does this mean that you have to be tossed around by all of the fear that goes with it? NO! For you – champion – it means you need to make a stronger and firmer decision to focus on solutions and on your life passions and dreams. You cannot afford to let go of them.

And you cannot make a positive difference in this world if you allow yourself to be dragged into the negative default that contaminates the world.

This is why today’s affirmation from the 210 Affirmation Challenge set by John Di Lemme of Lifestyle Freedom Club  is so timely:

I am stepping over the fear line into Faith Land today!

This declaration demands of you a definite and determined decision.

Are you going to going to allow the fear that is being stirred up in everyone around you to affect your life and destiny?

OR

Or are you going to make a stronger and firmer decision that you WILL take control of your destiny?

It does not matter what is happening around you, or what others decide. YOU still have the responsibility to decide for your own life

I am stepping over the fear line into Faith Land today!

Is this your decision today? I am sure it is because this is the decision of champions and:

Resource:
Every affirmation in this 210 Day Affirmation Challenge is authored by John Di Lemme, founder of the 210 Day Lifestyle Freedom Club Be sure to check out this challenge and download your free motivational mp3s and mp4 from here as well.

Actually all 4 of these hindrances can be summarized with word, and that word is fear.

Let’s think about it for a second:

What creates doubt in your mind? Fear.
Fear will make you doubt any decisions you make. Fear will make you doubt your ability to face a challenge and win or to carry out a task you have never done before.

What causes you to procrastinate? Fear.
You may fear that you may the wrong choice, so you delay taking action on your decision “just to make sure that the decision was the right one”. You may fear that that action you plan on taking may offend someone or cause a reaction you may fear facing. You get the picture right?

What causes you to have low self-belief? Here is a question for you:
Which matters more to you, what others think about you? Or what you have in your heart (your dreams and goals in life).

Yes, outside of God Himself, the only person who really knows what is in your heart is YOU. (And I DO highly recommend seeking God’s help and support in everything you do in life, and planting your faith first and foremost in Him and His Son).

The affirmation from the Lifestyle Freedom Club’s 210 Day Affirmation Challenge that we are looking at today is affirmation #136:

(See the foot of this article for more details about this challenge).

This affirmation addresses all four of these negative hindrances, which we have already determined may actually be summed up in one word – FEAR.

Today’s Challenge:
Take some time to reflect on your daily habits and ask yourself these questions:

• Is fear driving my life in any area?
• How many of these four attitudes are affecting my life and in which areas?
• What do I plan to do about it?

Now take your journal, note or sheet of paper where you have written down today’s affirmation and declare it 5 times with a bold, strong voice.

Then declare it 7 times, in fact if you dare, continue to declare it until you sense a change in your present state. Do you feel bolder? More sure of yourself.

Good. Now take the action you wrote down in response to the question above: What do I plan to do about it?

Resource:
Every affirmation in this 210 Day Affirmation Challenge is authored by John Di Lemme, founder of the 210 Day Lifestyle Freedom Club

It is not too late to get involved with this challenge. Go to the Lifestyle Freedom Blog Click on the menu at the top that says “Affirmation Challenge” to get involved. It will be the best decision you make today!

No, true success is being able to do what you want, when you want to do it, with whom you want to do it, for however long you want to do it. (quoted from John Di Lemme).

Here is a secret: You will not be able to reach this lifestyle without applying some focus, discipline and diligence to the pursuit of your dreams.

Well, this should not really be a secret, but if you look around you and see so many people chasing their fairy tale dreams (for example: success the easy way – win the lottery), you would think that the genuine way was a secret.

Hindrances to Positive Living:
The biggest hindrance to living in the positive realm where faith rules is FEAR.

Fear very often reveals itself with excuses. This is why today’s affirmation (which is #119 of John Di Lemme’s 210 Day Lifestyle Freedom Club Affirmation Challenge is so important.

When you repeat this affirmation, you are also making a decision to look fear in the face and resist it.

• Excuses justify fear, but in reality they reveal that you are more focused on fear than on faith.
• Fear hides behind excuses.
• Your excuses may seem logical and valid, but stop and analyze them and you will see that they are fear in disguise.

The more you resist a negative voice, the less it will bother you. This will certainly happen when you choose to resist the negative voice by focusing on the positive voice.

This is the strategy of displacement, and is in my experience the most effective way of running the negative thoughts, words and mindset out of your life.

Focus on faith, on positive words and thoughts and there is no room for the negative fear thoughts.

The attitudes and thoughts that you feed with words are the ones that become strong in your life.

You choose which attitudes and thoughts to feed (by agreeing with them, repeating them and living them).

Feed your mind and brain with thoughts and words of faith and your attitudes and mindset will become strong in faith. You will tend to look at obstacles and problems with solution seeking glasses. You are learning to live in the positive realm and success is within your grasp.

Feed your mind and brain with thoughts and words of fear and you will find yourself running from obstacles, fearing challenges and constantly making excuses.

Today’s Challenge:

• Make a decision to become alert to any excuses you may unconsciously be making.
• Make a fresh decision to feed your mind every day with positive words, articles, books, recordings and videos. This is how you give your brain the right tools to enable you to focus on the positive, and consequently live in the positive realm.

  (Have you downloaded your free mp3s from Lifestyle Freedom Club yet?

The more you build yourself up in faith, the less fear will have a foothold in your life.

Resource:
Every affirmation in this 210 Day Affirmation Challenge is authored by John Di Lemme, founder of the Lifestyle Freedom Club.

If you are not involved in this challenge, it is not too late to start. Go now to the Lifestyle Freedom Club Blog, then click on the menu at the top that says: “Affirmation Challenge”.

In this series of articles entitled “Affirmation Challenge” we are following the 210 Day Lifestyle Freedom Club Affirmation Challenge that I am involved in and blogging about.

Today we are looking at affirmation #112 which is:

In yesterday’s article “How Is Your Belief Today?” we looked at three main things about fear:

1. Fear is a result of doubt.
One of the big keys to to becoming a champion decision maker is to learn to walk in faith. One great way to build your faith is to spend time every day day reading and listening to positive inspiring books and audios.

At least this is a great start. But if you are going to make what you are reading and listening to YOURS, you need to take ACTION on what you are learning. This is what will really build your faith (your positive actions).

Solution to overcome doubt: Read and listen to inspiring, faith building material every day and take action on what you learn.

2. Fear causes procrastination. When a decision or a task is difficult what do you usually do? Put it off til later right?

Why is a decision sometimes difficult to make? Because fear is stronger than faith in your mindset as you look at the possibilities of the situation you are trying to make a decision about.

Solution: Make sure you are have a strong daily personal development program that is building your faith.

3. Fear paralyzes. You cannot move forward and take the risks necessary to step and seize the opportunities that will lead to achieving your dreams when you are overcome with fear.

Solution: Make sure that you are focused on speaking, thinking and action on positive words every day.

Today’s Challenge:

• Look at the three solutions listed above again.
• Write them down.
• Write down what you plan to do to put these solutions into action in your life.

  

  Resource:
  Every affirmation in this 210 Day Affirmation Challenge is authored by John Di Lemme, founder of the Lifestyle Freedom Club.

  If you are not involved in this challenge, it is not too late to start. Go now to the Lifestyle Freedom Club Blog, then click on the menu at the top that says: “Affirmation Challenge”.

  

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