Overcoming Obstacles - Opportunities -
O = Opportunities & Overcoming Obstacles If success, confidence, and feeling good about yourself were easy, then everyone would be successful, confident and feel good. In reality, there are a lot of obstacles on the road to success. The challenges and obstacles in our lives often slow us down and produce feelings of frustration and discouragement. Confidence is built by overcoming challenges, rather than avoiding them. The problem is that most of us avoid the challenges in our lives and then we lack confidence, because we never built it. Fear is probably the most common obstacle for women and models: Fear of being shamed or criticized, fear of not measuring up (failure or rejection), fear of what other people will say or think about you, and even fear in the area of physical safety (harassment, kidnapped, being attacked, groped, sexually abused or worse). Fear creates insecurity and anxiety (stress), which often traps us or paralyzes us. The two natural responses to fear are
