MENTORS Magazine

8 | MENTORS MAGAZINE | EDITION 1

So, how did I go from terrified to

terrific?

I’ll share my own process, as it will illustrate

the art of overcoming fear. I’m sure you can

be inspired by this adventure.

I of course did all the standard things that I

teach, from practicing ho’oponopono (as I

wrote about in my books, Zero Limits and AT

Zero ) to rehearsing in the studio and in my

mind.

But two months before the show, I also —

1. I Got coaching.
A basic rule of self-improvement is this

:

I first saw that insight in the home of Jerry

and Esther Hicks, of Abraham fame, decades

ago. Jerry (who has passed on and I greatly

miss) told me he first heard it in an early

television western. I don’t recall the name of

the show, but I do remember the impact the

principle had on me.

I started Miracles Coaching more than a

decade ago for that reason – to give people

someone who could believe in them.

To help them overcome fear.

To help them attract miracles.

I’ve had a lot of people support me and

coach me in performing:

Jen Sincero is a badass author of two NY

Times bestselling books, You Are A

Badass and the recent You Are A Badass at

Making Money. I discovered her first book

years ago, knew it would be a hit, and

interviewed her. We stayed in touch.

I had lunch with Jen when she came to

Austin for a book signing. I knew she had

been in a band at one point, so I told her my

dilemma. She told me that I had already

done the hard part of singing.

“You sang for Melissa Etheridge,” she

explained, referring to when I had a private

songwriting lesson with the rock icon last

November. “Singing one on one is harder

than singing on stage, and you sang for an

icon you idolize and adore.”

You can accomplish more if you have

someone who believes in you more

than you believe in yourself.