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The 101
It’s real simple folks: Do shit that scares you. Life gets better. This blog is about walking the walk. Join me as I face down my greatest fears through a series of personal challenges and share with you practical strategies to smash fear and own your life again. Feel like reinventing yourself? Get in touch.
Lachlan Cotter
Fear Smasher and Personal Awesomeness Consultant -
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Monthly Archives: April 2011
Appreciation Nation 1: The Year of Living Biblically Edition
You know something? Life is amazing and people are awesome. I think it’s too easy to forget those simple facts. And since I had an especially awesome week, I thought I’d make an extra special effort to show appreciation for … Continue reading
Posted in Awesome
Tagged AJ Jacobs, Annie, appreciation, Bernardo Mendez, gratitude, Jonathan Mead, Lauren Rains, Mark Powers, Matthew Kimberley, science, TED, Tia Singh, Tripp Lanier
15 Comments
How to Change Your Entire Life Overnight
On Friday I published a pretty personal post about my biggest failures in life. It was a response to Emilie Wapnick’s Failure Celebration Week initiative. The idea is to celebrate failure rather than shaming it, or simply reframing it as … Continue reading
Posted in Fear Smashing, Self Actualisation
Tagged career, courage, failure, lessons, music, reframing, relationships, success
43 Comments
My Glorious History of Humiliating Failure
Note: This is the question. Check out the answer. Failure sucks. It’s frustrating, often gut-wrenching, potentially embarrassing and always disappointing. If you’re alive, you’ve probably failed. You probably didn’t like it. It probably seemed like a pretty shitty experience at … Continue reading
Posted in Fear Smashing, Self Actualisation
Tagged blogging, business, career, education, entrepreneurship, failure, family, humiliation, jobs, judgement, music, performance, piano, relationships, self-esteem, singing, social phobia, theatre
38 Comments