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48. IS FEAR GETTING IN YOUR WAY? IT USED TO GET IN MINE BIG TIME!
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We all experience fear throughout our lives, and that's completely normal. Fear can manifest in many ways, but when it prevents you from reaching your highest potential or limits you from being the best version of yourself, it becomes a problem. That’s why I wanted to discuss FEAR.
Fear used to hold me back constantly, and I’ve come to realize that I wasted a lot of time living in fear and not pursuing the things I wanted to do.
I delve deeper into this topic in the episode, so I hope you enjoy it!
If you like this podcast or this episode, please rate the show. And if you know someone who struggles with fear, please share this episode with them!
Much love,
Adam
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Transcript
Introduction to the Episode
00:00:00
adampikefitness
Welcome back to another episode of Unlocking with Adam Pike. Guys, how are you doing? What's up today? Thanks for coming back for another episode and listening to me and what we got to talk about.
Adam's Personal History with Fear
00:00:13
adampikefitness
Now, what I want to talk about this episode is fear. Do you have fear, you know, the fear of failure, the fear of, you know, something not working out, ah the fear of rejection.
Journey into Content Creation
00:00:32
adampikefitness
I was definitely somebody in my life that I always feared that I was just not good enough to do things that I wanted to do. And the reason why I really want to talk about this and dive into this this week is because the last episode and the episode before that, it just really got me thinking about the things that I'm currently doing, but I wasted a lot of my years living in fear. Like just think about that for a second. I, I always wanted to be doing what I'm doing right now. You know, like I just created a video. I posted it on Instagram. I've really enjoyed filming a video.
00:01:26
adampikefitness
having ah having a really good like idea, like a creative vision in my head, I get excited to go home to edit that video. And then like, you know, I don't know if you guys seen the one I just posted today about the restaurant, but I think it it turned out pretty fucking good. And like that makes me really excited, right? So like, I know when I was working trades, I always knew I really liked creating content,
00:01:55
adampikefitness
And I really wanted to do it, but like never in my wildest dreams did I think that I was ever good enough to do that and make money doing it. you know All I ever knew was just working, trades. I was always living away from home.
00:02:18
adampikefitness
I was always in Alberta, Saskatchewan, BC. ah I was all over Canada working, right? Because that's all I ever knew. And it's not until I really ah really started to work on that fear, right? Because we all got fears.
Success through Facing Fear
00:02:37
adampikefitness
Like we all have fears, but sometimes you know that fear can really so be in the way of things that we want to do. right like I still definitely have fears now, but I don't let it get in the way like it used to. right I remember before, you know when I was working out to Long Harbor, I'd always be sitting around and be like, man, like
00:03:01
adampikefitness
There gotta to be something more. can't I can't just be doing this my whole life. like I can't be here for the next 20 years working in Long Harbor. Sure. It's a great job. Good money. Yes. But like.
00:03:16
adampikefitness
I don't want to do that. I want something more for my life. You know, I want to feel like um I'm actually making a difference or like not even making a difference, like doing something that I just actually enjoyed doing and just like I don't know for for me, I find that since I've been online, you know, like doing content creating, doing these podcasts, talking, like I actually made this podcast because I feel like I always have a lot to say, but I know that when I make these type of podcasts, I know someone's going to listen to it. Someone's going to be like, fuck. He's right. He's fucking right.
00:04:00
adampikefitness
um'm I'm here living in fear. I'm letting my fear hold me the fuck back, right? It all started because I literally just started posting talking videos about mushrooms. i I've really started to notice a difference in myself and I was so excited I wanted to share it. So I started doing these talking videos. And then that led into a lot of people trying micro dosing, a lot of people like having their life changed.
00:04:30
adampikefitness
And then the more I kept talking on Instagram, the more comfortable I was. And I was like, I could i should just start a podcast. Right. So here we are around episode 48. So wild. I like, not a really, I never even thought about this, but like, I actually wanted to start a podcast for a very long time.
00:04:50
adampikefitness
but fear was getting in the way of it. I was over analyzing everything, thinking I wasn't good enough. Who the fuck is going to sit down and listen to me talk on a podcast? and Like in my mind, I was literally just belittling myself and be like, no one's going to fucking listen to this. And if I stayed living in that fear, I would have never started a podcast.
00:05:18
adampikefitness
if I
Action Over Fear
00:05:19
adampikefitness
was living in fear all the time. You know, I would never be talking on Instagram about my experiences with microdosing because I never used to do that type of content. I always would just post fitness type content. Right. And it, it, it really took a lot for me to start like sitting in front of the camera, you know, talking and actually making sense. So no one's going to listen to this. I would like post something and then delete it. Cause I was like, just kind of self-conscious and insecure. Right. Well, have I not done that?
00:05:52
adampikefitness
I would have not had the opportunities that I have literally right now. because as I said on the last podcast, last episode, basically, if you if you weren't listening, um it wasn't until I started doing these talking videos on Instagram, um that's when this this agency content, gen I guess they seen one of my talking videos, they must've thought that I could you know just speak well, and they're like, oh, he would he would be good for like reading like scripts and doing like ad type videos and stuff like that.
00:06:25
adampikefitness
Um, so ever, like ever since I just let go of the fear and just start doing shit, just let go of the fucking fear and just started doing shit. That's when more opportunities started to open up for me. And it's just mind blowing. I really just wanted to talk about this because three years ago, I would have never dreamt that, you know, I'd be sitting at home talking on a podcast, editing videos, creating content, you know, going around Newfoundland flying my drone, just just living like an actual decent life, right? Because like I said, all I ever knew was just,
00:07:15
adampikefitness
working away 12 hours a day, just busting my ass, working overtime, exhausted, tired, you know, never home. And then when I'd actually get a day off, it was like, what am I going to do now? Pardon, you know, it's just, it's just such a lifestyle change for me. But I wanted to just talk about fear because I know that a lot of people want to do a lot of things in their life, but they're stuck in their fair.
00:07:43
adampikefitness
Maybe, well, maybe you're not even stuck in your fear. You're just, maybe you want you want a lot for your life. You want to do these things. You're just not fucking doing it. So like, if you're that type of person, then my question to you is why aren't you not doing it?
00:07:59
adampikefitness
Right. I got, I could honestly ask myself that question because
Pursuing Passions and Avoiding Regrets
00:08:04
adampikefitness
there's still a lot of things that I feel like I want to be doing, it but I'm also not doing it. Right. Like I just know that when you actually sit down and you apply the action and you start just doing, you know, like for example,
00:08:22
adampikefitness
When I wanted to start this podcast, right? I sat down and I'd overanalyze everything and I say, okay, well, I gotta do this. I gotta, oh, I gotta figure out this. I gotta figure out this. And there was so many, it was things just like clusters clustered in my head. Like it was just like, my head, my brain was literally like a clusterfuck and it seems so like hard to just start it. But, you know, when I just tackled one thing at a time.
00:08:50
adampikefitness
it like it just created space for more things, right? So but basically what I'm saying is I went and bought the mic. Okay, that's done. Okay, well, what do I got to do next? Then I then I started reaching out to people who you know, had their own podcasts. Well, how how do you guys record it? Like where are you recording your stuff to? How how do you get it like uploaded to Spotify? So then I tackled that. And then once all these things that it was in my mind and it was just, oh my God, like it's just, it it makes it seem so hard. But when you tackle things one at a time and you just actually start doing something,
00:09:28
adampikefitness
you know and do one task at a time, then it opens up more time and your mind is less, it's less there's more calm. It's not all fucking clustered in chaos. And then you can actually just start doing. And you know once I actually got out of the way of living in fear, and I start doing one task at a time, and then I was ready to actually record my first episode. And then I recorded my first episode.
00:09:56
adampikefitness
And I'm like, fuck, that's not so bad. I don't know. if I don't know if any of you original listeners remember my first episode, but I must've said fuck at least 300 times. Right. But I mean, I had to start somewhere.
00:10:11
adampikefitness
Obviously, I feel my podcast has gotten somewhat better over time. like I'm definitely still not great and I still need a lot of work and there's a lot to learn about it. like I could definitely turn this podcast into something much bigger than it is right now if I actually took the time and done that. right You can really make anything grow and and and blossom and and get bigger if you just spend the time doing it. But if you don't do it and you live in fear and you just think about what you're going to do and what you could be doing your whole entire life before you know it,
00:10:53
adampikefitness
just like Just like the 40, what's that? what's um ah This is 40, right? when when the When the mom walks up to the to the to the old lady and she's like, don't blink, don't blink. I blinked and then I was 90, right? that's That's just facts.
Exploring Income through Creativity
00:11:11
adampikefitness
Because I probably wasted...
00:11:14
adampikefitness
I wouldn't say wasted. I'm not, I'm not going to say wasted because I definitely don't regret anything I've ever done because it all led me to where I am right now. But that being said, I just always, I always had in the back of my mind that I wanted to be doing something else, but I was just too afraid to actually do it. I was too afraid to walk away from the money. I didn't think I was, you know, if, if, if I actually stepped away from my job, where, where, the where the fuck am I going to get money?
00:11:43
adampikefitness
But like once I actually put myself in that situation where I had to work on my own, I just started looking into like, Hey, how torick do I make money? Right? What am I good at? How can I take what I'm good at and make money online? And then I just started doing it.
00:12:04
adampikefitness
And we're almost three years later and I'm still doing it, right? So anyway, so I don't want to go on much more of a rant talking about fear, but I wanted to speak on this because it is something that you got to think about. And I want you to think about it right now. Are you living in fear? Is fear holding you back from you living your best self?
00:12:31
adampikefitness
You know, is there something that you're really good at and you know that you're good at it? And if you just had more time in your day to spend that this thing that you were good at, would you be able to make a living out of this or not even a living? Would you be able to make some sort of money out of this? Obviously right away, you're not going to, you know, not going to make six figures a year.
00:12:55
adampikefitness
But like, what if you could make $100 extra a week doing something that you're good at? You know, that could be whatever it whatever it is, right? Whatever it is that you're good at. Could you make money doing this online or maybe not online? You know, maybe, maybe it's like refurbishing furniture. Maybe you're really good at that. And like, you could just
Overcoming Fear for Growth
00:13:19
adampikefitness
buy, buy stuff off marketplace, refurbish it and resell it. Literally there's a guy that I follow on, um, I don't know if you know this guy.
00:13:29
adampikefitness
I can't remember his name, but basically his his story was all he did was buy furniture and marketplace like a lot of furniture and resell it for more and he did that for years and Made a shit ton of money like you could do literally anything nowadays. We have so many resources and to make money. So um um this isn't I'm not trying to make this whole podcast podcast about money. I just wanted to really talk about fear and have you guys you know really think about is fear holding you back from doing shit? Because if fear is holding you back from doing shit, then you're not going to do more shit. Anyways, guys, I hope you took something from this.
00:14:16
adampikefitness
And I hope if you are somebody that's listening and you are, you know, living in fear of failure, rejection, things not working out, just know that it always fucking works out. It always works out. When does it not?
Conclusion: Fear, Action, and Life Choices
00:14:34
adampikefitness
Anytime I've been in the dumps, in the shitter, down like down in the dumps, I've always come out you know, things just working out and even better than than before, right? Though all these like hard times, it's just, it's just building like building your fricking resume of just living an awesome life. You know, I feel like it's just teaches you lessons when you're down in the dumps like that. But if you're living in fear,
00:15:06
adampikefitness
Just know, just just start to like retrain your freaking mind that it always works out. And what's the worst that could fucking happen? You try something and and then it don't work? Well, that's that's just a learning lesson. okay It didn't work. what What can I do next? Or how can I do it better the next time? you know I did the whole fitness thing online.
00:15:29
adampikefitness
you know i did I wouldn't say I i failed at it, but I wasn't the best at it. I kind of enjoyed it, but like I don't know. I just kind of got away from it. I was like, I don't really want to be doing this anymore. I could definitely go back to that if I actually gave like that a lot of attention, but like, I just kind of, you know, swept it under a rug, moved on to something else. Right. But like, if you don't try things, you're not going to know what you're fricking good at. So if you liked this episode,
00:16:00
adampikefitness
Don't forget, okay? Don't forget, please share it on your story. um Don't forget to tag me. And it would be greatly appreciated if you guys could rate this podcast. Whether you listen to it on Spotify, there's a section that you can go and give this show a rating. There's also a section on Spotify where you can comment on this podcast. Or if you have any questions for me at all, you can put it in there.
00:16:28
adampikefitness
or you can write me on Instagram at Adam Pike living. I did change the name. I don't know if you guys noticed that or not, um but I wasn't really, you know, I wasn't really posting fitness related content for some time now. Like I do it here and there, but like you know you guys, you guys know the true people who have been following me for a while.
00:16:48
adampikefitness
you know I used to post a lot of fitness type content, um but now I just feel like Adam Pike living is more suitable because that's what I'm doing. I'm just out here living and trying to do things to live my best self. So that's why I changed it. But yeah, like I said, would greatly appreciate it if you're ready to show, share it with somebody that you know is living in fear. If you listen to this and you know somebody that's living in fear,
00:17:15
adampikefitness
And fear has been holding them back for a very long time. Please send them this because they might relate to it. And I was definitely somebody that was living in fear for a very long time. And if I was still living in fear, I would not be doing any of the things that I'm doing right now. And I would definitely still be.
00:17:36
adampikefitness
trapped in a job that I didn't really overly love that much. The money was great, but I didn't really, ah didn't really enjoy it. It didn't really speak to me and you know, it was making me more unhealthy if anything. So hope you guys enjoy. I see you guys on the next episode. Peace.