How to Overcome Fear as a Business Owner
This is something that comes up so often. Fear likes to rear its ugly head when we least expect it.
Fear might show up in a few different ways. Maybe it’s that you are avoiding doing something in your business because you're scared of the outcome, or you're scared how somebody's going to react. Or it might be, fear of taking the jump and doing something you haven't done before. Fear really is something that will crop up for you time and time and again. As a business owner, and no matter what income level you're at, no matter how long you've been in business, you're always going to have fear around doing certain things.
Luckily, there are a few strategies you can employ to really put fear in its place, and not let it keep you from doing what you need and want to do in your business.
In this episode, we discuss more in depth strategies I use:
Rating your fear: You can rate your fear based on “how much am I feeling this fear, how big does this fear feel, and if my fear actually came true — what would be the negative impact on my business?”
Fear spiral: Another really great strategy that I like to use with my coaching clients around fear is to just let yourself go through that spiral.
The next time you find yourself feeling resistant to doing something that you know you really need to do or you really want to do — Sit down, think about “is this because I'm feeling fear around this thing?” Then, go through your fear rating exercise, and go through that “what's the worst that could happen” exercise — and that's really going to put it into perspective for you.
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