Awesome article about Tim Ferriss who is one of my favorite millionaire entrepreneurs who resonates with my personality and my dreams I want to achieve.

The first time I read it about a year ago or so, while I was reading it I was feeling that he is talking directly to me.

On top of it when he covers the topic of fear in his book “FourHour Work Week”, I have felt that he was kind of very heavily and hard slapping me right into my cheeks because I got clearly aware of the fact that some of my major fears have been holding me back from achieving my wildest dreams.

On top of it, quite lately I have also found myself very embarrassed to admit that I was not actually following and living very closely aligned with my top passions in life, that I’ve realized through reading my second favorite book that I also recommend to you, and that book is called “The Passion Test: The Effortless Path To Discovering Your Destiny” by Janet and Chris Attwood.

So, that was actually another painful slap I have received in terms of getting myself focused or at least, trying to get myself to focus on answering the important question: “Why the heck don’t I finally take control of my life and wholeheartedly go for achieving all my dreams and the things that matter to me?”

Both Tim’s and The Passion Test’s slaps were so painful that I kind of started to feel like a very embarrassed and foolish coward who doesn’t have the guts to go for his own dream. Seriously, right now, I am actually feeling that I am so close to playing around or if you like, hugging my fears in order to go for all my dreams like NEVER EVER before. Although what I’ve just said is sort of echoing a fluff or B.S. kind of thing or mildly said a time waster’s cliche or stereotype stuff to say, I must repeat that I am feeling THE TIME HAS COME AND I HAVE TO DEAL WITH IT NOW.

Nick, what I’d like to tell you personally on all this said is that this very post that I am writing RIGHT NOW I have never ever posted anywhere before (even NOT in my private diaries, notes or journals where I was normally wasting my time instead of getting out there to deal with my most horrible fears). I am going to certainly remove that useless notes writing BS too.

Anyway, speaking of my embarrassments about not having the guts to face my major fears, Tim’s sentences about fear in the book “Four Hour Work Week” have definitely made me feel the most embarrassed like never ever before in my entire life.

Having said that, knowing the importance for both you and me to face, deal with and overcome each and every of our scariest fears if we really want to get to live and fully enjoy a life of our WILDEST DREAMS, I could confidently suggest that #8 Fear Is A Good Thing should be on top or very very close to the top of both your, Tim’s and my list of “9 Amazing Simple Life Lessons”.

Anyway, don’t get me wrong here because I wanna say to you that I equally like and adore the remaining 8 lessons that you’ve brilliantly presented in your post. However, in terms of the “First Things First” stuff that’s answering the question “What’s REALLY stopping me to do this or that in order to finally grab and achieve WHAT I REALLY AND TRULY WANT TO?”, dealing with our most painful fears, in my personal view and opinion, should be on top of each and every human being’s TO-DO or PRIORITY tasks list, ok?

Now, believing that my comment here could well be one of the most passionate and the fieriest ones that you have received so far, I guess that it could well be understood and go even without me saying that I am now wholeheartedly inviting you, Nick, your blog’s readers as well as the rest of our like-minded friends (fans of Tim Ferriss and Four Hour Work Week) to visit my personal blog and leave your comments there.

I look forward to getting to know you as well as supporting you on your journey toward achieving your wildest dreams no matter what they are thus making one another accountable to persisting at achieving those dreams (as SIMPLE as that).

Let’s do it TOGETHER and WIN!!! 🙂

Bruno Babic

This I can say is one of the best posts I have read in a while (and I read really awesome posts)…partly because half way through it I suddenly got an epiphany of the direction my company should take. It’s been bugging me for a few weeks now and I have much more clarity on my niche.

Thanks for breaking down Timothy Ferriss’s lessons.