I know you’ve heard it said before, but what you resist persists and what you focus on grows. When people decide they are going to create an information product they get excited but many times fear sets in. It’s important to focus on what you can do instead of fear.

Humans have something that distinguishes us from any other species; it’s the power of choice and the power to exercise our will. If you go around reacting to the negative, focusing on it and allowing it to paralyze then you are not practicing willpower.

Anything is a practice. Meditation is a practice. Negativity is a practice. Reactivity is a practice. Allowing fear to paralyze you is a practice. Success, I believe, is also a practice. Sometime we just let our life circumstances take over and it becomes what I call a negative spiral.

What not to do

When you ask disempowering questions your mind goes through all the files in your brain looking for why that’s true. Let’s look at some disempowering questions:

* Why doesn’t anything work for me?

* How can I be so stupid?

* How come I never have enough money?

* Why would anyone listen to me?

Your brain starts looking for the answers, looking for why that is a true statement. You don’t want to ask those kinds of disempowering questions. What kind of product will you create in a state of disempowerment?

What to do instead

Write down your top fears and frustrations, those things that keep you up in the middle of the night. These are the things that you’ve probably been ruminating over and have been running through your mind like a little mouse on a treadmill.

Here’s how to change your fearful, disempowering thoughts into new empowering, possibility focused questions:

* How can I….?
* Where can I find the good in this..?

* What action can I take to make this better…?

* What would it look like if…?

Keep your list of new empowering questions with you at all times, because you will fall back into your old habits. It’s what you do when you notice yourself falling back into old disempowering habits and patterns that will determine your success. When you find yourself awake at 2:00 am get out your new list and let your brain start helping you figure it out.

If you do fall into old fearful habits, get excited that you’re aware of it. Awareness is the key to all positive change.