The Fearless Factor
Overcome the Fears, Doubts, and Anxieties That Stop You From Being Your Best Self Now
By: Jacqueline Wales
Published: 2009
Format: Paperback, 341 pages
IBSN: 0979859816
Publisher: Turning Point Press
"This book is the journey of self-discovery that led me into the jungle of my own life", writes motivational speaker Jacqueline Wales in her inspirational and deeply personal book The Fearless Factor: Overcome the Fears, Doubts, and Anxieties That Stop You From Being Your Best Self Now. The author uses the metaphor of the jungle effectively in describing the difficult, often dark and labyrinthine journey to navigate the twists and turns within a person's own mind.
Jacqueline Wales understands the feeling of fear, and the sense of hopelessness that such a powerful and often very irrational emotion can engender for a person. She lived through fear, and paralysis of action that fear can evoke, rendering her unable to cope with life. She made the empowering decision to not only accept the reality of fear, but to use that fear to drive her life forward to greater achievement. The key for Jacqueline Wales was to take positive action, and she describes in powerful language how other women can take control of their own lives as well. Indeed, the message of hope and inner strength is as applicable to men as it is for women. The author's message of overcoming fear and self doubt is a universal one that anyone can embrace to take charge of of their own personal destiny.
Jacqueline Wales (photo left) doesn't write a book that is long on theoretical discussion. Instead, she dives right into the jungle of the mind, with the goal of navigating its dark corners, and discovering the light. By failing to embark upon the voyage of self-discovery, the author believes that a woman is denying herself her full potential for personal fulfillment. Jacqueline Wales has been in the depths of the jungle, and is a wonderful personal guide to its challenges and to its opportunities for personal empowerment. Along the way, she shares the personal journeys of other remarkable women who trekked through the jungles of their own minds and arrived triumphantly at the other side. Those stories of hope serve as a powerful inspiration to other women to strive for their own personal happiness.
For me, the power of the book was the blend of Jacqueline Wales' personal journey as a guide for other women, along with practical and reachable goals for embarking on one's own voyage of self fulfillment. The addition of other women's struggles and personal victories enhance the vision that fears and anxieties can be overcome, as long as a woman recognizes the power of the journey. The author helps the reader to begin to recognize fear as only imagining the worst. She shares advice and assistance for changing that mindset to one of imagining the best and seeing possibilities instead of roadblocks and potential problems. For the author, simply changing the internal language, and becoming one's own best friend, will spark a change in attitude that can change an entire life.
I highly recommend The Fearless Factor: Overcome the Fears, Doubts, and Anxieties That Stop You From Being Your Best Self Now by Jacqueline Wales, to anyone who is struggling with fear and anxiety in their lives. When a person feels that sense of hopelessness, the jungle can indeed be a dark and frightening place. Jacqueline Wales has been in that same location in life, and serves as a personal guide to find the way through the fear and into a more happy and personally empowered life.
Read The Fearless Factor: Overcome the Fears, Doubts, and Anxieties That Stop You From Being Your Best Self Now by Jacqueline Wales, and begin your own person journey to ridding yourself of fear and negativity. Instead of letting those draining, and debilitating emotions rule your life, discover how to banish them forever. Take control of your life, and turn that dark jungle into a beautiful vista of hope and happiness.
