Are you motivated by fear? It's time to overcome the fears in your own mind.

Once at a Halloween Haunted House, I was so frightened by the costumed actors’ hands reaching out of the darkness and touching the back of my neck, that my mind went into autopilot-and I ran. Blinded by fear, focused only on putting distance between myself and those creepy hands, I hurled through the blackness. That is- until I finally slammed, face first, into a wall. I hit that wall so hard, I dropped to my knees.

It turns out that most of our ghosts, ghouls, hobgoblins and other things that go “bump in the night”-are just reflections of the spooky attics in our own minds. After all, none of my friends had a reaction quite like mine, or the bruised nose to show for it.

While fear can be very “MOTIVATING”, it is not always the best for sustaining motivation or finding the right solution.

One of the biggest “problems” with fear as a motivator is that often, once we move AWAY FROM the perceived danger, motivation decreases and we find ourselves in places we never intended.

Motivation TOWARD a POSITIVE GOAL tends to be much more productive and easier to sustain.

Had I been more forward thinking, I would probably have looked for the clearly marked EXIT signs throughout the Haunted House, and I probably would not have hit that wall.

Now, for many of us-the approaching season of holidays represent a unique torture chamber of temptations and anxieties. Our FREE Meet Up this month is intended to turn our attention to the POSITIVE GOALS we have for the upcoming “Season of Eating” and only participants will receive a FREE copy of this trance to curb holiday binging. In this edition, we share some FREE resources to curb stress and binging during the holidays - to include an introduction to our NEW HYPNOSIS AUDIO STORE which has hundreds of titles to keep you focused on your positive goals (A UNIQUE GIFT IDEA). Our Trance of the month is a link to an episode of “Dr. Who” that addresses the value of our FEAR and makes great spooky fun for a family night this Halloween.