7 Ways to overcome fear of starting a business

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How to overcome fear is not only just about saying you need to be courageous, but to win over anxiety. Business is the provision of a solution but not everyone has the courage to bring a solution and make money out of it. Many people are afraidof starting a business for many different reasons even though they have the coolest and best ideas around. Starting a business is about seeing an opportunity where there is a problem and presenting the solution in such a a way that it is acceptable to those who need the solution. In order to overcome the fear of starting a business there are several things that one must be prepared to do.

1. Get over yourself

Self is one of the biggest hindrances to doing anything. It all starts by sizing your self and putting yourself in a category which disqualifies you from most things. We are all born with capacity and we earn that capacity by what we decide to do. If you decide to just sit and that life will come to you then you will be served any dish of life which may not be appealing to you. Life is like a game of points, the more you do and expose yourself the more are your chances of succeeding. Get over yourself and starting being what you really can be. Fear stars with self and until you get over the fear you might never be successful.

2. Plan like a champion

You cannot win a battle if you plan like a loser, neither can you win a race if you plan lazy. You need to leave no stone not turned and start planning like a champion. Think of all the possibilities that you can, copy those who have made it, be the person that walks the talk and does the thought. Plan like a champion, train hard and be in position because of your planning. Fear makes one to plan like they are going to lose. Instead of thinking of everything your fear or anxiety makes you plan leaving out details in order to create a self fulfilling prophecy of fear.

3. Change your habits

Until you decide to start a business you are just an employee of the world, when you decide to start a business you start becoming a partner but when you start the business, you own the world. Change your habits to reflect who you are and what you need to become. If you are going to be a surgeon then start acting the way a surgeon would act, if you are to be a retailer start acting like one. In other words start projecting the future into now so that the power of now is with you.

Fear is based on habits, and sometimes our habits reflect how sacred or terrified we are of things. To overcome fear learn to be more assertive about the things that you do so that you are not only wining in life but winning yourself over.

4. Invest small and invest big

Don’t wait for  millions for you to start your business, even with 50 dollars you can still start a business. The world is not shaped by the big things, the big things are shaped by the small things.  We limit ourselves when we think that we need to wait for capital in order for us to become something useful in life yet there are many things that we can do. Investing small does not mean you are small it just means that you are not afraid to make a vision come to life. All the great things in nature start small, think of the seeds, human beings, fire, and everything else starts small.

Fear is about size as well, feeling small can make you think you are dwarfed by everyone such that you cannot picture yourself bigger than the situation that you face. People thus invest small in themselves such that they never go big and fear becomes the lock and chain of their size or ambitions.

5. Be stubborn

Fear and anxiety create hesitance and doubt in our minds. It makes us less consistent in what we want to achieve yet consistency is the foundation of success.

When you want success you need to go take it, no one is going to hand it over to you. The thing about life is that if you do not persevere through the barriers and the challenges in life you will always be taken back and never succeed. For a seed to become a grown plant it needs to break the barrier of the surface that is against it. The ground is not just going to open up and say seed have your way. Sometimes the adage that its survival of the toughest holds true.

6. Bring a personality

In the presence of fear personality is dissolved into nothing more than just a place holder in the world. It is not just about the business but about who you are. Are you willing to stay the distance, to go the distance and to create the distance. Your personality has a lot to do with how you will tackle business in life. You can’t win the battle unless if you are participating in the fight. Many people want to try but few want to actually do what is needed. Bring a personality that is equal to the fight, if you don’t then you might become another statistic and casualty of the war.

Don’t let your personality be overcome by fear such that you dissolve into something that you are not.

7. Have a vision and targets that mean something  real

Never underestimate the power of vision and targets, it is what dreams are made of and what structures are founded on. When we see what we see everyday in the cities and towns, it is not just about buildings and assets but it is imagination that has come to life. People only give excuses for things that they do not value, if you want to succeed in life then work on what it is that you value. Fix the passion to get the fulfillment of the vision.

 

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