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Understand That Fear Is a Normal Part of Being a Successful Entrepreneur
It’s normal to be nervous and uneasy when you try anything new – a new relationship, job, residence, hair style and more. It may be especially difficult to picture yourself as a successful Internet entrepreneur if you’re a newbie at the process.
The competition alone is enough to make you fearful. Branching out – gathering affiliates and customers, making videos and hosting podcasts can all be scary before you actually do it.
All of these fears are unsettling, but if you know how, you can use them to your benefit and excel from the beginning. One fear that all successful entrepreneurs have faced at one point is fear of failure.
This fear can damage your plans for the future and destroy your vision of success. But these same successful entrepreneurs learned how to use failure to their benefit. There’s so much you can learn from failures to help you reach your goals.
Many studies have been conducted comparing successful people to those who aren’t. One finding indicated that those who became successful and those who gave up on their dreams had about the same amount of setbacks while trying to reach their goals.
The difference between successful and unsuccessful people is that those who did realize success didn’t let any failures convince them that they couldn’t eventually succeed.
They learned from their mistakes and applied those lessons to reach their future goals. When you begin to recognize failures as learning experiences, you’ll see them as gifts rather than a sign of weakness or stupidity.
You may learn from a failure that you should change your approach – how you do things. Positive changes don’t mean that you failed and had to change – but that you learned how to do something better.
Every career path presents new things to learn and for some, it can be overwhelming. Take it step-by-step and don’t move on until you’re prepared and ready. Rather than looking too far up the ladder and becoming overwhelmed, look at each rung on the ladder and enjoy each step of the way as you master a new aspect of your business.
Analyze your fear of failure and understand why you’re afraid. There may be an issue at stake – such as making enough money to have financial security or thinking if you don’t succeed, you’ll be the laughing stock of your friends and family.
When you know and understand your fears, you’ll be better able to work through them. You may find that these fears are closely linked to self-esteem or self-image. One of the best and most helpful things you can do when you feel self-doubt creeping into your thought process is to take action.
Focusing on the task at hand will redirect your thoughts to a more positive and productive path. You’ll be surprised at all you’ve learned and accomplished when you learn to control your thought process and use fear to your advantage – and see it as an exhilarating and motivational catalyst to help you succeed.
