How Do You Get Past Your FEAR?

I get this a lot lately... How do you get past your fear? Well, the answer isn't so cut and dry. Some say just do it. But when you're petrified it's hard to do that. Especially when you have outside influences hindering you like, we're in a recession or depression or whatever they're calling it now. Stop buying into that crap first of all. Start focusing on how someone, right now, is making money in this economy. Why not you?
According to Wikipedia the definition of Fear is: an emotional response to threats and danger. But for some it's much deeper than that. I won't go into all that because we ALL experience fear at some point in our lives. The bottom line is if you concentrate on your fear, you will keep it going and it will only get stronger. On the other side of the coin, if you concentrate on what you want, you will keep it going and it will only get stronger. Did I just repeat myself? Um, yeah well sort of! What I'm pointing out here is that whatever you concentrate on gets attention and becomes stronger.
As a kid I was always terrified to go off the high dive. I was petrified with fear! For weeks and weeks I really wanted to try it, especially since ALL my friends were having a blast diving off there. They kept getting in line to continue jumping off of it. Then I saw a tiny little 6 year old waiting in line. She had NO fear of climbing up that tall ladder to the steep board above, then jumping off it into the water. I watched her several times until I finally decided that if she could do it so could I. Somewhere within myself I had to muster up the courage to do it. After all I rationalized that if she survived it without a scratch, then so could I, right? So I climbed up that tall ladder and froze for a couple seconds on the board, almost talking myself out of it and facing the shame of climbing back down the ladder, but I kept reminding myself of the little girl, then I just jumped! It was the RUSH of a lifetime! I DID IT!!! I was 11 at the time, but I still remember that feeling of conquering my fear.
That's exactly how I felt when I made my first offer! I had that same feeling! I DID IT, I DID IT!!! I conquered another fear again! It gets easier with each deal, but you have to just jump in at some point. No one said it would be easy, but then again it's not that hard either. I'm speaking from experience of course. Look back to see if there was a time in your childhood you had a terrifying fear of something that you overcame. I'm sure there's a similar story in everyone's life like my high dive story.
Again, Fear is: an emotional response to threats and danger. There is NO threat or eminent danger to making deals. Especially if you have done your due diligence you've eliminated the risk. Of course, you must have your exit strategies in place and it's basically that simple.
So what is your fear? Mine was making the cold calls and talking to the sellers of homes I'd found, it may be the same for some of you, or it may be making the offer, or locking up the deal. Locking up a contract was NOT a fear for me, but in order to get to that point I had to make a call and talk to a seller first. But once I did it a couple of times, that fear subsided too. Practice with a friend or family member. But whatever you fear, you gotta muster up the courage and defeat it. Just close your eyes and jump in, that's what that 11 year old girl did and she's been doing it every since, and so can you!
Finally, I wanted to share this little video I found on Youtube to show you how simple it is to get what you want:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WU4N-J6TVYo&eurl=http://daily.finerminds....