<p><img decoding="async" class="alignleft" title="Bob Proctor - motivational speaker and author" src="https://www.getmotivation.com/images/speakers_images/bob-proctor-07.jpg" alt="Bob Proctor - motivational speaker and author" />The first ten years of my life were spent in Owen Sound, Ontario. It&#8217;s a small town a few hours north of Toronto. I can vividly remember spending the summer days with my family at Harrison Park where there was a really great swimming pool.</p>
<p>I would watch as the older kids went up the ladder to either jump or dive off the high diving board. They were having a great time. Wanting to be accepted by the older kids, I too went up the ladder &#8230; reluctantly, but I climbed it. <span class="post-teaser-more"><br /><br />&nbsp;=>> <a href="https://www.getmotivation.com/motivationblog/2011/11/overcoming-the-terror-barrier-by-bob-proctor/" title="Permanent Link: Overcoming the Terror Barrier By Bob Proctor" rel="bookmark">Click to read the full article...</a> <i></span></p>{"id":886,"date":"2011-11-18T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-18T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/?p=886"},"modified":"2023-10-20T11:59:47","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T16:59:47","slug":"overcoming-the-terror-barrier-by-bob-proctor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2011\/11\/overcoming-the-terror-barrier-by-bob-proctor\/","title":{"rendered":"Overcoming the Terror Barrier By Bob Proctor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Bob Proctor - motivational speaker and author\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/images\/speakers_images\/bob-proctor-07.jpg\" alt=\"Bob Proctor - motivational speaker and author\" \/>The first ten years of my life were spent in Owen Sound, Ontario. It&#8217;s a small town a few hours north of Toronto. I can vividly remember spending the summer days with my family at Harrison Park where there was a really great swimming pool.<\/p>\n<p>I would watch as the older kids went up the ladder to either jump or dive off the high diving board. They were having a great time. Wanting to be accepted by the older kids, I too went up the ladder &#8230; reluctantly, but I climbed it. <span class=\"post-teaser-more\"><br \/><br \/>&nbsp;=>> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2011\/11\/overcoming-the-terror-barrier-by-bob-proctor\/\" title=\"Permanent Link: Overcoming the Terror Barrier By Bob Proctor\" rel=\"bookmark\">Click to read the full article...<\/a> <i><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=886"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4382,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886\/revisions\/4382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}