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Doubt Sets In

This section will tell you what to do when self-doubts arise.

Most people do not get lost in their own backyard. Likewise, most people do not get lost when they first set out on a journey. This is even the case when the destination is not somewhere that they have ever been before. It is when they begin to get close to the destination that a sense of fear or even panic will take a hold of them and they begin to have doubts, fears, get lost and then lose complete control.

As people get farther away from familiar territory they will sometimes lose their direction. Since we are speaking about the road to success, we will continue in that vein with our traveler. Major interstates often provide the most direct and easiest routes to get where we are going. This does not hold true very often however, in the road to success.

While some people will share many common goals, dreams and ideas about success, the actual number of successes and their types, definitions and purposes will all be just as different as the people deciding what being successful really means to them. It is therefore, quite often necessary to travel the lesser roads. While no individual in today’s world will likely be the first down any known roads, it is possible.

Even so, the road less traveled will often be a dark and foreboding journey for anyone who has never been there before. While the actual situation may show that everything is in order, the final destination, while not within site, is now much closer than it was when they began their journey. The scenery of their life is quite probably better than it has ever been. So what is the problem for anyone in that situation?