Bloggers Journal

Success in any walk of life is what many of us aim towards.  Your success is very personal, and varies from person to person.  What is success to you?  Many of us seek out to achieve our dreams by working ourselves to the bone – working long hours and going above and beyond the call of duty.  Very quickly we become immersed in our ambitions.  What if it doesn’t work?

Doubt – is a driving factor which leads to many failed ventures.  Put simply, doubting you will succeed will slowly lead you to believe you will not succeed.  It’s kind of like you convince yourself it’s not going to work out.  Soon, this belief leads you to not succeed because you are scared of failing at what you want to achieve.

The human mind is a powerful thing.  Often people have every day fears – phobias.  The fear of heights or spiders are all perfectly normal.  In a more business sense, the fear of failure, however, is a receipe for disaster.

The belief in yourself that you will not succeed is another form of a fear of failure.  It’s a lack of self belief, of self confidence.  These are very important when undertaking anything in life.  You must be sure of yourself and confident in your abilities.

Often we find ourselves getting bogged down by our own beliefs, and dismiss the comments and appraisal laid upon us by others.  Doing this isn’t helping us achieve our ambitions.

Fear is much like a disease.  If you don’t fight it, it finishes us off.  It becomes an excuse to not work at what you want to achieve.  It’s fairly regularly that you hear people saying they are afraid of trying something because they don’t want to fail.  Whilst this is perfectly rational, as people are not always happy outside their comfort zones, it should not be an excuse.

If you ever want to succeed at something, you should embrace your fears, and use them to empower you to succeed.  Convert that fear into motivation to defeat it.

That’s a pretty powerful statement.  But it’s one I live by.  I can remember when I was younger – at primary school (elementary school), and I didn’t want to go to secondary school.  The thought was scary.  But sometimes in life there are things we just have to face up to.  Anyway, at that young age I’d no idea what I wanted to do, or what I wanted to achieve – let’s be honest, how many youngsters do?  Anyway, now, at 26 I look back and think, I really have come far.  I took control of that fear and have achieved greater things.

I’m pretty sure if you’re reading this, you have something in mind that you want to achieve in your life.  It is probably reasonable to believe that you’re a little unsure of whether you will achieve your goals.  Don’t worry.  It’s normal to be scared of failure – what differentiates successful people from those who are less successful is how you manage that fear.  Share you goals with your friends and family, or on your blog.  It’s good to share how you manage them.  Why not leave a comment here on your goals, and how you are managing them.  Or if you’re worried about failing, drop me a question and I’ll try and point you in the right direction.

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