What Flavor is Your Fear?
Kevin Bidwell
All-In-One-Business.com
Reading this article might just change your life.
After 15 years of helping hundreds of people start or grow
their businesses-both online and off-I have discovered
something:
The only real barrier to success is fear.
Deep seated in all of us is the fear of public disgrace.
Thousands of years ago public disgrace meant being kicked
out of the tribe. Leaving the tribe was a death sentence
in those ancient times.
Some people-people who succeed-learn to identify this and
overcome it.
People who fail usually do so thinking their fear was
really something completely different (and defensible).
They often fail to realize that fear rarely looks like
"fear" to its host-instead it takes on a completely
"acceptable" appearance. Fear may take the form of
perfectionism-spending months to create just the perfect
website, perfect product, perfect web copy. Of course,
there isn't any perfect website, product or copy. "What
if I get my site up and out there and someone sees how bad
it really is?"
Fear can also look like "fate." When fear takes this form
it seems that every action taken is met by some type of
adversity. As a result, very little progress is made and
giving up is often seen as the only solution. "After all,"
this fear's victim concludes, "God (or Buddha, or Fate,
or.) must not want me to succeed here. I'm just not meant
for it."
Fear can also masquerade as laziness. Laziness protects us
from failure because if we never try something, we never
fail. "I just can't seem to get motivated." is the cry of
the lazy.
Another face of fear is what we call here in Kentucky
"Fixin' to get ready." Here is the idea that "before I can
do this, I must first do that." The host of this fear
finds himself constantly making a mental (and often verbal)
list of all the things he must first do before he can
pursue success. Somehow, the list never seems to get any
smaller and he grows no closer to his goal.
Deal with these four faces of fear and you will be well on
your way toward ongoing success. To aid you in the battle,
I have put together a downloadable "fill-in-the-blanks"
guide for you to use. Grab your copy here:
http://www.All-In-One-Business.com/getdirection?a=298923
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