Master Your Fear To Move Ahead

Fear increases our chances of survival. Fear is in some dimension healthy. For instance, a fear that saves you from physical harm such as the fear you feel when you see a huge slavering dog standing in your path or the fear that prevents most of us from shooting over Niagara Falls in a barrel, is a healthy thing. But the kind of fear that prevents you from doing things that you want to do that will improve you is not.

In business, in order to succeed you should take risk. Successful people aren’t people who conquered fear; they’re people who faced fear. They’re people who were afraid but did it anyway. This is the secret that only successful people knew. You don’t necessarily have to conquer fear but rather master it.

Mark Twain once said, “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.” Break what’s holding you back. Do the following:

1. Prepare to succeed - Learn how to do it, you already know how to fail.  You can fail by doing stupid things. Succeed by finding out exactly what you would need to be successful and ensure that those needs are met. Work through with your business plan.

2.  Change your attitudes towards failure - Failure won’t change your genetic makeup or your personality.  Don’t take failure as a personal thing. You only become a loser if you choose to stay down.

Fear is painful and unpleasant emotion but is not life-threatening at all. Take your failure as an opportunity of one kind or another - an opportunity to draw out beyond your usual boundaries and to learn something valuable. Remembering this positive face of failure and focusing on it will go a long way towards changing your attitude about it.