9 - Scary Stories

Listen to the audio, then do the journaling activity below.

The Go-Getter Quiz shows that only 6.6% of women always listen to their intuition. That means 94% choose to either totally ignore their intuition or ignore it and then regret it.

Women are more likely to trust Facebook as a source of information than they are their own intuition.

That's mind-blowing, isn't it?

In centuries past, women's intuition was one of the most powerful and respected skills possessed by humans.

Then something changed. Somewhere along the track we began to question and doubt our feelings, including fear.

What actually is fear? It's a question I hadn't bothered to ask myself until a few years ago.

I have had a torrid relationship with fear all of my life. One day we are best friends, the next day we are locking horns. Through all of that, I hadn't slowed down enough to ask a very simple question - what is fear?

Fear is the collection of scary stories that we attach to a risk.

Those stories are learned through our life experiences and our families and broader culture.

Some of those scary stories are deeply engrained in our collective psyche - such as the boogeyman. These are fears we hold collectively, and we reinforce them for each other. Can you think of others?

Fear is the negative pre-empting of consequence. We tell ourselves, consciously or unconsciously that A + B = One freaking bad outcome.

What are the scary stories that you're carrying around in your mind about your wildest adventure? Where did you hear those stories or are they based on past experience?

Write out all the detail you can summon. Don't analyse or judge the stories, just write them out.