Table of Contents
PART ONE: What is Stopping You?
Emotions and their role in survival
Experiments in emotional manipulation
Task perseverance, task avoidance
Self-help books aimed at High-FFs
Dream fulfilment is a false promise
“Attribution theory” and the “locus of control”
Post-traumatic stress disorder
High-FFs are capable of emotional intelligence
Getting on top of our external responses
Anger as concealment and control
Focus on the present and future
3 FAILURE AS A POSITIVE EXPERIENCE
Failure is a question of interpretation
Company failure is a transformed concept
Goals are a major differentiator
Parcelling up the 10-year goals
A dynamic towards appropriate goal setting
Goal-setting may take several goes
Behave as if we are already there
Pre- and post-visualization exercises
The Reticular Activating System – our “antennae”
8 APPROPRIATE GOAL SETTING FOR RECOVERING HIGH-FFS
Setting the wrong goals can be fatal
Setting goals beyond our goals
If we could have our goals now – would we?
The strength of adopting “objectives, strategy, tactics”
A strategy based on strengths and opportunities
The “jumping out of the aeroplane” moment
Judgement calls in three stages
A technique for producing ideas
Anyone can adopt efficient practices
Proactively managing interruptions
“To do” lists and “checklists”
Deal with the worst thing first
Low self-esteem – the distorting mirror
Deconstructing low self-esteem
Judged by intentions, not actions
When opportunity knocks, open the door
Should any openings come up . . .
Loyalty runs down the hierarchy, not up
Using High-FF traits to our advantage
18 ALTERNATIVE PATHS FOR THE HIGH-FF
Typical High-FF partnership failings
The positive side of partnerships
Freelancing and consultancy work
CONCLUSION – THE POINT OF RECOVERY
SEVEN STEPS TO NAVIGATING FEAR OF FAILURE
Step One: Discover your true values
Step Two: Visualize your goals
Step Three: Develop the milestones
Step Four: Establish a strategy and some tactics
Step Five: Execute efficiently