Fear is a normal part of being human. It allows us to avoid potential dangers and helps us survive.
Excessive fear is unhealthy, especially if you are building a business.
Letting fear take hold of you causes you to miss out on valuable and profitable opportunities. Your success will depend on your desire to overcome your fears.
Someone once said that one of the saddest ways to sum up life is with what you could have, might have, and should have done. Don’t let that happen to you.
Use these four steps to keeping fear out of your system and embracing risk:
1. Accentuate the positive
A positive mindset will go a long way to help dispel fears and worries. A negativity spiral makes things worse, increasing your paralysis and helplessness.
Look around you and actively identify what’s going right in your life. Change your mindset and expectations to focus on abundance and success. Half the battle is learning to accept that you deserve success; you deserve to win. You can focus your energy on getting there.
2. Take control of the story
Rewriting your narrative can knock your fears on the head once and for all. If you see yourself as a competent, successful person, those niggles of self-doubt, that negative self-talk won’t be able to get a toe-hold.
Take control of your story; decide to be brave, confident, and successful. Write down all the negative things that go round and round in your head. Make a list, and for every bad thing, write a positive one. Beat down the self-doubt by setting down your skills, your strengths, your good points.
As you do so, you will find that you have the qualities of a successful entrepreneur. Keep building on these qualities and reverse your weaknesses.
By applying these steps, you will eventually develop a mindset that sees challenges as opportunities rather than objects of fear.
From there, the road to success becomes easier to walk on.
3. Baby steps
No matter what your fears, from marketing your product to setting up a new branch in another location, you don’t have to do it all in one go. Work out what you want to achieve and take baby steps. Each small success will increase your confidence and shrink down that fear.
4. You don’t have to do it alone
No one said you had to hide your fear or overcome it all by yourself. Build up a support network of family, friends, and colleagues who can serve as brand advocates. Get professional advice from a coach or mentor or buddy up with a friendly colleague.
If you tend to dwell in past failures, find a reason to push forward. You can’t redo it, but you can learn from it. Be kind to yourself and get whatever support you need.
Choose an appropriate mentor to help you deal with your challenges. Business Untangled can help you deal with improving your income.
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