Being Afraid Is A Good Think

by ppeng on May 25, 2008

By Peiying Peng & Liz Zed

Being Afraid Is A Good Think
It takes ten months to carry a baby through its term.  It’s more than ten months since Liz and I conceived the idea of a membership website.  And our labor of love is finally here.  Since last summer, we have gone through many challenges and gained many insights.   Throughout this journey, which is just starting, we have been challenged by fear many times.  What kept us going and growing is the understanding of the nature of fear.  Thus the title “being afraid is a good think.”  It is a meditated response to a natural reaction.
Let’s take a peek inside and see what’s up for Peiying & Liz.
As usual, today’s business meeting at MyMoneyDoctors started with self-inquiries.
Liz:  Have you ever been challenged by the question, “Who do you think you are?” What do you take it to mean? How do you respond?
Peiying:  Hmm, I don’t think people actually have said that to my face, but I have felt the implied meaning a few times for sure.
Liz:  How do you decide when to ignore the question vs. when do you decide to take up the question as a challenge to yourself?  Perhaps what you really hear internally is “Who DO I think I am?” The question actually has power over you and holds the possibility of stopping you dead in your tracks. Notice however, that it’s not really about what other people actually think of you. At a deeper level, it’s really about what You think about Yourself! You might become unwilling to challenge a firmly held self-definition.
Peiying:  There’s a Chinese expression called “drowning in spit.”  When people step outside the boundaries of what can commonly be expected, they run the risk of being “drowned in spit”. What do you think it would take for you to experience “drowning in spit”? And when you think a little more deeply about it, what is it that you are actually afraid of? Is it concern over what others may be saying about you? Or is it rather the voice of concerned self-talk that is creating the din in your head?
Peiying: When we are faced with unfamiliar things, the first reaction is often fear, and the urge of running away.  But if we give the fear some deeper thought, we will know that the fear might be brought on by great opportunities to grow.  In the moment of fear, we want to stay in what we know–the safe zone.  But the safe zone is never going to get us where we want to go.  So you and I have been cheering each other on when fear hits us.  Because behind the fear lies the prize of growth. It is through this understanding we are able to push through many obstacles.
…the conversation continues…
Wouldn’t it be great if you could have access to a place where you could freely explore and try on different options? This is where MyMoneyDoctors.com comes into the picture.
It’s kind of like our idea of making a house call. And it’s a whole community that appears together to provide and live the principles of an abundant universe. Our premise is that it doesn’t matter Where you are on the journey. What matters is that you get started, or that you keep on taking action, moving forward, even in the face of obstacles. Obstacles bring a great tendency to get paralyzed and stand still, give up, or just become complacent with old patterns run by an old program out of our past. Everyone gets uncomfortable before Growing!
Knowing how difficult and lonely one can feel on a journey of change, we created a nurturing place where you are provided the opportunity to feel understood and appreciated.  We created MyMoneyDoctors.com to take shape of a hub where you will find more than resources and information. It is a hub where the sum of the creative energy is greater than each individual adds together.  We intend a humming of the positive, higher vibration–a sign that your jet is taking off,  lifting you up, carrying you to where you want to go–and perhaps higher still.
Thus MyMoneyDoctors.com is born.  It is an online, interactive, creative community to guide, support, brainstorm, validate. A place where you can experience transformative community 24/7, posting your creative visions, goals, ask questions that arise on the journey of building knowledge about how to make $$ work for you, learning how to move past where you currently are and learn how to stop doing the same thing and expecting different results. Learn how to create a vivid vision–Visioning about all areas of your life:  physical, emotional, financial, relational, spiritual. Share those visions with like-minded others. Discovering your true purpose, what you want, reconnecting to dreams and desires, and moving past the self-definition that wants to keep you stuck. Persist and actually produce the results you want. Together we empower ourselves to create the lives that we want. We will utilize interactive formats including teleseminars and webinars coaching you to empowered living, getting out there with your goals and desires, getting support and validation for daring to dream.
So the journey is just launching here at MyMoneyDoctors.com, and we invite you to join us in the challenge of Growing and creating together, at the higher vibrational rate of an abundant universe.

Being Afraid Is A Good Think
It takes ten months to carry a baby through its term.  It’s more than ten months since Liz and I conceived the idea of a membership website.  And our labor of love is finally here.  Since last summer, we have gone through many challenges and gained many insights.   Throughout this journey, which is just starting, we have been challenged by fear many times.  What kept us going and growing is the understanding of the nature of fear.  Thus the title “being afraid is a good think.”  It is a meditated response to a natural reaction.
Let’s take a peek inside and see what’s up for Peiying & Liz.
As usual, today’s business meeting at MyMoneyDoctors started with self-inquiries.
Liz:  Have you ever been challenged by the question, “Who do you think you are?” What do you take it to mean? How do you respond?
Peiying:  Hmm, I don’t think people actually have said that to my face, but I have felt the implied meaning a few times for sure.
Liz:  How do you decide when to ignore the question vs. when do you decide to take up the question as a challenge to yourself?  Perhaps what you really hear internally is “Who DO I think I am?” The question actually has power over you and holds the possibility of stopping you dead in your tracks. Notice however, that it’s not really about what other people actually think of you. At a deeper level, it’s really about what You think about Yourself! You might become unwilling to challenge a firmly held self-definition.
Peiying:  There’s a Chinese expression called “drowning in spit.”  When people step outside the boundaries of what can commonly be expected, they run the risk of being “drowned in spit”. What do you think it would take for you to experience “drowning in spit”? And when you think a little more deeply about it, what is it that you are actually afraid of? Is it concern over what others may be saying about you? Or is it rather the voice of concerned self-talk that is creating the din in your head?
Peiying: When we are faced with unfamiliar things, the first reaction is often fear, and the urge of running away.  But if we give the fear some deeper thought, we will know that the fear might be brought on by great opportunities to grow.  In the moment of fear, we want to stay in what we know–the safe zone.  But the safe zone is never going to get us where we want to go.  So you and I have been cheering each other on when fear hits us.  Because behind the fear lies the prize of growth. It is through this understanding we are able to push through many obstacles.  …the conversation continues…

Wouldn’t it be great if you could have access to a place where you could freely explore and try on different options? This is where MyMoneyDoctors.com comes into the picture.It’s kind of like our idea of making a house call. And it’s a whole community that appears together to provide and live the principles of an abundant universe. Our premise is that it doesn’t matter Where you are on the journey. What matters is that you get started, or that you keep on taking action, moving forward, even in the face of obstacles. Obstacles bring a great tendency to get paralyzed and stand still, give up, or just become complacent with old patterns run by an old program out of our past. Everyone gets uncomfortable before Growing!
Knowing how difficult and lonely one can feel on a journey of change, we created a nurturing place where you are provided the opportunity to feel understood and appreciated.  We created MyMoneyDoctors.com to take shape of a hub where you will find more than resources and information. It is a hub where the sum of the creative energy is greater than each individual adds together.  We intend a humming of the positive, higher vibration–a sign that your jet is taking off,  lifting you up, carrying you to where you want to go–and perhaps higher still.
Thus MyMoneyDoctors.com is born.  It is an online, interactive, creative community to guide, support, brainstorm, validate. A place where you can experience transformative community 24/7, posting your creative visions, goals, ask questions that arise on the journey of building knowledge about how to make $$ work for you, learning how to move past where you currently are and learn how to stop doing the same thing and expecting different results. Learn how to create a vivid vision–Visioning about all areas of your life:  physical, emotional, financial, relational, spiritual. Share those visions with like-minded others. Discovering your true purpose, what you want, reconnecting to dreams and desires, and moving past the self-definition that wants to keep you stuck. Persist and actually produce the results you want. Together we empower ourselves to create the lives that we want. We will utilize interactive formats including teleseminars and webinars coaching you to empowered living, getting out there with your goals and desires, getting support and validation for daring to dream.
So the journey is just launching here at MyMoneyDoctors.com, and we invite you to join us in the challenge of Growing and creating together, at the higher vibrational rate of an abundant universe.

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