If you don’t control your thoughts and emotions, or your mindset, then you may be victimizing yourself by reducing or eliminating your opportunities to be successful in the most important moments of your life. Misalignment of your conscious and subconscious mind is often a form of fear of success. This is one of the most […]
We’ve been discussing some fears that can limit or even prevent a leader’s success. And in our last blog, we looked at how someone could use a worst-case scenario to visualize what might happen as the result of a perceived failure or change in life. Here are some steps to using the worst-case scenario: Describe […]
We’ve been discussing fears that limit or prevent a leader’s success: fear of failure, fear of success, fear of rejection and fear of selling, and how these may have limited you. Here we look at fear of rejection and fear of selling. Fear of rejection. Inherent to the fear of rejection is the irrational belief […]
Most people don’t like to fail, and if you personalize failure – such as failing at a new business, job or marriage – it’s really easy to misinterpret that failure as meaning, “I’m a failure” or “I’m a loser.” But you’re not! When you work at something that’s important to you and it doesn’t work […]
The Four-Step Mastery of Fear These four very simple steps can help you master many of your fears, including the fear of failure. Step1: Identify your fear. Write down what you are afraid that you’ll fail at. By naming it you’re on the way to taming it. Step 2: Embrace your fear of disempowering it. […]
We’ve been helping identify the nine faces of fear of failure in order to provide you with techniques to overcome the fear of failure and to come to terms with it. Here are faces #5 through #9. Fear of Failure Face #5: Rationalizing After losing a big deal, a leader or sales rep says, “I […]
Here and in the next blog we will help you identify the nine faces of fear of failure. By doing this, we will provide you with techniques to overcome the fear of failure and to come to terms with it so you can focus your mind on successfully attaining your goals and dreams. Fear of […]
Now that you know how to increase your courage, let’s dive into the fear of failure and how to gain mastery over it. Fear of Failure: A Ubiquitous Block to Success Fear of failure is a ubiquitous block to success. It exists at both the conscious and subconscious levels of your mind. If fear of […]
In the my last blog, I began taking you through a series of questions to help you reflect on your life, your career, your relations. In this way, I wanted to lead you toward being able to build your reserves of courage. Here we’ll look at the next technique. Instant access to courage All of […]
In the next few blogs, I’d like to take you through a series of questions that will help you reflect on your life, your career, your relations. The answers will help you see how you may react to failure, how prepared you are to engage in failure as a way to succeed. Take time to […]
