Find out how to overcome the fear of growing your business
Fear is something that challenges most people to grow their business. So what can you do about it?
1) Ask, “Is the fear real?”
2a) If the answer is “Yes!”
Take action to remove yourself from danger.
2b) If the answer is “No!”
Understand its origins, bring in compassion, then take a deep breath and move forward
Fear was an evolutionary strength. We needed fear to help us to identify predators that were in hiding, waiting to pounce and eat us! If we heard a rustling in the bushes and thought “Tiger! Run!” we would run to safety and stay alive. If we didn’t identify the fear of a tiger lurking in the bush then we would be eaten!
Interestingly though, it is acknowledged that even imagined fear was a good thing. If we heard a rustling in the bushes and thought “Tiger! Run!” and we ran only to discover that we got it wrong; we may be out of breath and used up valuable energy but we would be alive. If on the other hand, we heard a rustling in the bushes and thought “Ach, its ok” and stayed where we were, and there really was a tiger, then we would be dead!
So fear, or imagined fear, was a good thing for our ancestors. You wouldn’t be alive if your ancestors didn’t fear predators!
But tigers or other predators, are not so much of a threat anymore, at least not in the western world, yet we still have this inbuilt imagined fear behaviour going on. There are still things that can kill us such as illness, viruses, dangerous driving, jumping off tall buildings without a parachute… However, unless you do these type of things in your business, your actions to grow your business are NOT going to kill you.
Next time you fear something, look around your environment and ask if there is anything that can kill you. If not, acknowledge that it is a unconscious behaviour passed down from your ancestors. Send them love and thanks for allowing you to be born, then take that next step to grow your business.
If you would like to find out more about what actions you can take to grow your business, you may be interested in my new book Successful Business Minds. Sign up HERE to be the first to know when it goes on sale!
© Helen Monaghan
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