6 WAYS FEAR HOLDS YOU FROM SUCCEEDING

Fear could be defined as false evidence appearing real, and if you give it the chance, it could hold you from succeeding and achieving a lot of things you desire.

Fear has held a lot of people captive and they don’t even know it.

These are some of the ways fear stops you from being a success.

1. FEAR COULD KILL YOUR SELF-BELIEF

Self-belief is a necessary ingredient for success. A lot of successful people were mocked at in the beginning, but their self-belief helped them through and they became a success.

Self-belief gives you that passion to continue even when the odds are against you. However, when fear steps in, you lose that belief — and it becomes almost impossible to succeed when you don’t even believe.

2. THE FEAR OF FAILURE

A lot of people have been held bound just because of the fair of failure; a lot of potential, a lot of ideas and a lot of thinking has been stuck in some people’s mind, simply because they are afraid it wouldn’t work.

Just imagine if Bill Gates let the fear of failure hold him bound or President Obama succumbed to the fear of failure; they surely wouldn’t have been successful.

3. FEAR OF WHAT PEOPLE WOULD SAY

A lot of people are afraid of living their lives or following their dreams simply because they are afraid of what people would say. When you fear what people would say or how they would react then you kill that belief or desire to push for that which you want.

4. FEAR COULD HOLD YOU FROM TRYING AGAIN

Some goals aren’t achieved at the first try; sometimes, you have to fail, learn from your mistakes and try again. But when you let fear in; fear would give you many reasonable excuses why you should succumb, and when you succumb to it that would be the death of that dream.

5. FEAR COULD MAKE YOU PLAY IT SAFE

Great successes come with great risks, but fear would make you sceptical; fear would make you want to play it safe, fear would want you to shun the risk, and when you give in to this fear, you would rarely succeed big at what you do.

6. EXCUSES

Do not give in to fear; fear would give you over a thousand excuses why it wouldn’t work, and this would make you live a life of excuses. Excuses would only lead to failure and stagnation.

“If we doubted our Fears instead of doubting our dreams, Imagine how much in life we’d accomplish” — Joel Brown

Jake