Reduce Your Fear & Find Success

I was contacted the other day by a new client who is starting a business after 18 years employed by one company. The problem is that she is scared. In fact she would not be normal if she was not!

Setting up your own business is a scary life change and a healthy level of fear is good. The problem is the fine line between fear that focusses your mind into action and the level that paralyses you and stops you moving forward.

So how do you tell one from the other?

• You give yourself (and others) excuses for not getting started e.g. I am too old to start a business. (Colonel Saunders (Kentucky Fried Chicken) was 66 years old when he started his business!).
  
• Your mind is completely full of all the problems, things you don't know and negative thoughts that it is impossible to even think of an action let alone start to take them.
  
• You listen to friends and family who tell you not to be so stupid or 'get above your station in life'.
  
• You focus so much on the enormity of setting up a business that you can't even see the small steps to take to begin with.
  
• Your thoughts revolve round your fear of failure.

Time to let go of all this fear and negativity! 

Focus on the positive

Start with baby steps

Remember you cannot fail, only learn

Find yourself a mentor or some support

Start to visualise your new identity as a business person

Believe that you have the potential to be successful business person

Fill your mind with positive thoughts

Surround yourself with positive supportive people

Believe you are never too old to try new life experiences

NOW GO OUT THERE, 

STRETCH YOURSELF AND DISCOVER YOUR FULL POTENTIAL

10 Tips to Reduce Your New Year Resolution Slippage

Got your New Year Resolutions sorted? 

Fired up and ready to get going?

Got your New Year's actions and goals planned?

The question now is how long will it last? Come on let's be honest with ourselves. We are only human and no matter how good our intentions are, many of them (if not all) will inevitably slip.

So how do we reduce or better still prevent slippage?

1.  Make your resolutions achievable - small goals can be easier to achieve.
You know what they say, a chocolate elephant is more easily eaten in small bites!

2.  Write them down and review your progress weekly.
I write mine down every Christmas and tick them off as I achieve them - a great motivator.

3.  Share your resolutions with others who will support and encourage you.
This is a must for those resolutions that are hard to achieve.

4.  Create realistic deadlines and review dates.
Review your progress, update your actions and deadlines and you're more likely to stay on track.

5.  If it is a repetitive resolution that you always brake then either ditch it or change it.
Your success is linked to how much you really want to change so think carefully.

6.  Work out how you sabotage your resolution success.
We sabotage our success from a subconscious level for reasons such as:
                 * People we love and care for may not like the change
                 * We have a deep belief that we are not good enough or strong enough
                 * We don't really believe we can achieve it
                 * We are doing it to please others and not ourself

7.  Link them to something that gives you passion or strongly motivates you.
Keep your motivation high by focussing on how success makes you feel

8.  Make sure the pain of the need for change is greater than the pain of the change.
Be that physical or emotional pain this is important to success

9.  Work at fully identifying yourself with the outcome of your goal.
Success depends on you fully identifying yourself with the changes your resolution will create

10. When you are tempted to break your resolution focus on the pain.
By remembering the pain you will feel if you break your resolution it is easier to stick to it


Good luck and let me know how and when you achieve your resolutions.