Starting a business is one of the most liberating,
life-changing things you can do.
You’ve made your decision. You want to start
working for yourself and you’re ready for the income caps to be off your
finances. There’s just one problem — that gap between seeing your vision and
getting to it almost feels impossible.
Where do you start?
Should you start?
Can you really do it?
Before you know it, that excitement you once held
for your project is now just a distant thought. Tonight’s dinner has now
taken priority. But why does this keep happening? You get to a
certain thought or particular part of the process and then stop until next
time.
Without you realizing it, your fearful thoughts are
causing you to react and retract away from your true desires. These fears
have become the cage from which you’re unable to escape. So how can you
side-sweep these fears and really move towards the dream you want?
Here are three small tactics to help you overcome
your big start-up fears.
Accept That You Are Not Supernatural
When I finally hacked the lock off my cage of fear
and started living according to my desires is when I finally understood what
fear really is. Fear is the worry of something that doesn’t even exist.
You are worried about something that hasn’t happened. Why are you torturing
yourself over events, situations, or circumstance that haven’t even occurred?
That’s crazy, right?
Let it go. Your fears are there to protect you and
keep you safe. But when they are controlling you instead of you
controlling them, it’s a recipe for disaster. This prevents you from achieving
what you want in life.
If you are making sensible and rational decisions,
then you have no reason to be fearful of the things that don’t exist (and may
never exist). To think about your start-up fears is to attract them to
you, so accept that bad events may happen in your business, it’s called “Learning.”
Reset Your Program
Your mind currently runs on its own program. At the
moment, whatever situation you are in in your life means that your mind-set has
attracted you to that situation.
Your start-up fears are part of a mind-set
program that you have set for yourself, and it plays back to you constantly.
When you become conscious of the program you’ve unconsciously set for yourself,
you can then reprogram it.
Right now, your mind-set is either focussed on
successful or unsuccessful thoughts. Each program is set based on things like
your experiences in your childhood, environment, personal life and
relationships, etc.
Begin reprogramming yourself by becoming aware of
your thought patterns so that you can sense and feel your own negative
presence. When you are experiencing negative thoughts, your body language
will change — your face changes and your aura changes.
To beware aware of these changes in yourself means
that you can consciously alter them. Commit to not allowing negative thoughts,
words, or actions to enter your experience. Commit to seeing yourself and
others in a good light. Luckily, we are all born differently, with various
traits and personalities. Our perspectives are different, our skills vary, and
our opinions can change. Appreciate this and only respond to it from a
positive aspect. Like a mirror with a positive reflection, it will reflect positivity
back to you.
Next, contact your subconscious mind by sitting
down in a quiet place where you won’t be bothered. Using a pen and paper,
write down all of your worries, anxieties, or anything important that is on
your to-do list right now. Dedicate this time for you and your
subconscious mind. Listen and feel what it has to say.
Why is it not working with you towards your goals?
What are its fears? Why is it really
pushing against you? What is it protecting you from?
Start off your list with broad reasons,
then start digging deeper to get specific answers. For example, your
subconscious “broad” fears might include the fear of success. To
get specific answers, think about what it is that you fear about success:
Is it growing apart from your partner?
Is it letting people down?
Is it having more people rely on you?
Is it the thought of extra responsibility?
Is it the fear of being tied down to your desk?
Is it the thought of having more work?
Allow your subconscious to have
its say. After all, it’s just trying to prevent harm and
disappointment. Hear without judgement or anger, only genuine curiosity.
If you can tap into the specific reasons why your
fears exist, this is the priceless information you need to turn things
around and change the program. Once you’ve reached the core of your worries and
fears, it’s time to release them. Speak to your subconscious in a way that
is comfortable to you. This could mean speaking out loud, writing a letting, or
just thinking the words. Work it out so you can work together and not against
each other.
Make a promise to yourself to honour what is
truly important to you and what you truly want in your life.
You are taking control and reprogramming not just
the subconscious mind, but your whole life too.
Perfection comes from Adequate Planning
When you have a plan, you increase the potential of
the outcome that you actually want.
If your start-up is a one-person show, when you
look at everything that needs to be done from the starting point to the end
point, the journey can make you feel overwhelmed. All the hurdles, potential
downfalls, and new knowledge can make you fear starting a business. But when
you have every step planned out in front of you, the journey doesn’t seem so
scary.
By planning, the huge leap becomes small steps, and
if you can continuously plan the next small step, then before you know it
you’re slowly growing your business.
The key to start-up planning is being productive
and not just busy. The way to do this is to create a huge to-do list.
Write down everything that needs to be done in your business. Leave nothing out
and write freely, from the biggest to the smallest tasks. Then, section
off each task into groups. The first group is for the tasks that contribute to
your start-up growth only. The other groups are based on the tasks that need to
be completed but are not urgent.
What’s most important is that you know what tasks
need to be done in order to grow your business. This includes things like
product creation, submitting guest posts, or testing your service out before it
goes on sale.
Conclusion
Ultimately, it is a scary time to start a
business. If you are fearful, your options are to stay caged by fear or to
accept, embrace it, and keep pushing forward.
Like I said before, fear is the worry of events and
situations that haven’t even happened yet. You can keep yourself locked up
or break free and make the visions in your head a reality.
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