How the Fierce Handle Fear - Secrets to Succeeding in Challenging Times [Paperback]

Sophfronia Scott (Author), Cherry-Ann Carew (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 1, 2010

Every individual confronts reasons to live in fear--the economy, health issues, violence at home and around the world--the list multiplies by the day. Many of us are already mired in circumstances made all the harder by the accompanying burden of anxiety and fear. Sophfronia Scott maintains that learning how to handle fear is the most important skill a person can master. We don't have to expend our energy, or our lives, ruled by our fears.

In How the Fierce Handle Fear: Secrets to Succeeding in Challenging Times, Scott suggests that a ''fierce'' approach is called for. She has assembled an assortment of the most ''fierce'' and successful business and life coaches, including Donald Trump and Jack Canfield, to share their tools for triumphing over the same fears that keep many of us from realizing our potential. Our ability to cultivate fearless behavior may well be the measure of our courage. This collection of 22 essays is the recipe for achieving true success and reaching our highest goals.

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About the Author

Sophfronia Scott has over twenty years of experience as a professional writer, most of it spent at Time and People magazines. When she published her first novel, All I Need to Get By with St. Martin's Press in 2004, one prominent reviewer referred to Sophfronia as potentially ''one of the best writers of her generation.''

Sophfronia holds a bachelor's degree in English from Harvard.

As executive editor of The Done For You Writing & Publishing Company, Sophfronia helps entrepreneurs to write and publish books to market their businesses. Her latest work is the award-winning bestseller, Doing Business By the Book.

Product Details

• Paperback: 182 pages
• Publisher: Two Harbors Press (July 1, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1936198363
• ISBN-13: 978-1936198368
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #874,961 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Fear, a part of Life, but you have the key to Over come it July 3, 2010

By Spirited Lady

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"How the Fierce Handle Fear", is based on a group of author's point of views on how to deal with fear. Can I use this book in every day life? Will it help me in business; does the author discuss the spiritual aspects of fear? Will I come away with a sense that the book is well written, thought out, and I can use it as a guild to help family, friends, business acquaintances, young people, and myself? For the price, it was more than worth what I paid for it.

Setting Fear Aside by Valarie Davenport Willis was the chapter that I identified with more than another. She discussed losing her job, not that she was not "qualified or not being a team player", it's "the bottom lie", economics. She stated fear is invisible, it takes your energy, it stops you in your tracks, yet you cannot let fear rob you of your dreams. We all have dreams, we know that to achieve our dreams, sometimes, we have to walk through that dark valley, we know it as fear. We cannot touch it, but we feel it, it holds us sometimes like a vice.

Valarie goes on to tell you how friendships helped her to deal with her situation, loss of job, and what she was going to do. Slowly she started to move forward, after her pity-party, she began to do something every day, for example taking a walk. Having something definite to do. One of her girlfriends called every day to talk, and helped her realize what she wanted to do. Out of those early morning discussions came, her first book. She state some times you have to speak works out loud, into the brain, to let fear know, you are not owning it today.

She became a national keynote speaker for major organizations. These things would not have happen had Valarie not lost her position. Blessings come in many ways, after we subdue our fears, we are able to think clearly, and know we will survive and thrive.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing book. May 9, 2012

By Misael.

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The best book you can buy to show one how to overcome fear. The author uses simple words, I perfectly know this was intentionally thought so that it would be easy to understand by anyone. This book rocks.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Insightful & Practical August 26, 2010

By david bass

Format:Paperback

The other reviews give valuable details of this volume so I'll simply add that this slim, accessable volume is full of insights that can be easily incorporated into your everyday life. The various sections give you inspirational messages and practical observations for managing the everyday fears, anxieties and crises that are part of everyone's life. Beyond the obvious high profile motivational contributors I found the "With Spirituality" section particularly interesting and the contribution by Arathi Rao, "Befriending God" so pertinent in our time. This is a great book to share with anyone you care enough about to help manage life's rough patches.