What's Stopping You?

“If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.” -Anna Quindlen

The fear of failure is directly linked to your self-worth, or the belief that you are valuable as a person. 

Core Concepts

High FF and AMs: 2 types of people

Fear of Failure. 

The single most damaging thing to achievement. 
Fear of failure leads to self-sabotage and a whole lot of other things.
A self-reflective person fearing failure may look too hard at the failures and get stuck in them.
Someone great at generating ideas but fears failure in implementation may become terrorized by the very ideas he made, or when he sees others doing this.

Achievement motivated. 


People who are doing just fine, according to the author.

The book ends with this "plan" to get you to where you want to be:

Step 1:

Discover your true values.

Step 2:

Visualize your goals.

Step 3:

Develop the milestones.

Step 4:

Establish strategy and tactics.

SWOT analysis

Step 5:

Execute efficiently

- Inveset in workspace
- Divide week into hourly slots from 8 to 8.
- Prioritize.


Step 6: 

People skills

Step 7:

Find your unique gift