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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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Category Archives: Fear Smashing
Open Up & Let the Light Back In
At that moment, my desire to accept and love myself just as I am came to full fruition. Not only am I good enough, I am magnificent. Laurie Sutton Today I’m thrilled (and more than a little proud) to introduce the … Continue reading
Posted in Fear Smashing, Guest Posts, Self Actualisation
Tagged art, business, Chris Guillebeau, doubt, fear, freedom, Karen Walround, Karol Gajda, Laurie Sutton, life coaching, transfomation, Water's Edge Jewelry
36 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
How to Swim With Sharks Without Sleeping With The Fishes
If you can see Chuck Norris, Chuck Norris can see you. If you can’t see Chuck Norris, you may be only seconds away from death. Chuck Norris Facts I never really understood the meaning of those words until today. I … Continue reading
Posted in Challenges, Fear Smashing
Tagged Bangkok, Chuck Norris, Scuba, Shark Dive, Sharks, Siam Ocean World
29 Comments
No More Mr. Nice Guy
Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. Rumi You may have noticed something odd around here during the last month or so. For a blog about Fear Smashing, there hasn’t been much of that … Continue reading
Posted in Fear Smashing
Tagged action, alienation, blogging, changes, growth, perfectionism, philosophy
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Phoenix Challenge 2: Skydive
Lach’s first law of living deep: if you can’t think about it at terminal velocity, it’s probably not that important. “Don’t hold onto my hands. I need my hands to deploy the parachute. If you hold onto my hands, I … Continue reading
Posted in Challenges, Fear Smashing, Freedom and Adventure
Tagged adventure, Clint Eastwood, Pattaya, phoenix, satori, skydiving, Thailand, thrills
29 Comments
Mastering The Five Fears: finding freedom in the human condition
When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you. African Proverb You, dear reader, are one of the lucky ones. Of all the untold billions of intrepid souls who have trod this ancient Earth, you are among … Continue reading
Posted in Fear Smashing, Philosophy, Self Actualisation
Tagged African Proverb, condemnation, fearlessness, freedom, inadequacy, liberation, mortality, scarcity, The Five Fears, Yoda
29 Comments
Phoenix Challenge 1: Bungee Jumping
When you have come to the edge of all the light you have and step into the darkness of the unknown, believe that one of the two will happen to you: Either you’ll find something solid to stand on, or … Continue reading
Posted in Challenges, Fear Smashing
Tagged bravado, bungee, Chiang Mai, cold shower technique, Mars Dorian, positivity, Richard Bach, Thailand, trust, visualisation
26 Comments
Why failure means nothing
I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is … Continue reading
Posted in Fear Smashing, Philosophy
Tagged allowing, Atychiphobia, Calvin Collidge, fear of failure, intention, Michael Jordan, persistence, trust
10 Comments
10 proven strategies for decimating fear + 1 audacious launch
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable. Christopher Reeve The last 12 weeks have felt like a reawakening. Suddenly, a light came on … Continue reading