10th June 2010
Fear of anything can have a hugely limiting effect on people. Fear is generally a reaction to the unknown, the “leap in the dark”, and the imaginings of what might happen as the result of an action you might take.
For some reason, before we do something new we start to predict the outcome in our own mind. For many people the scenario that they paint is very negative, with a whole string of things that could go wrong, and the consequences that they might bring. Of course, depending on how bad those consequences might be the more we start to falter, and ultimately we convince ourselves that perhaps we might be better off staying where we are right now.
So fear of failure is one limiting action, but sometimes it can be fear of success, when the outcomes we predict are on the face of it very positive. Questions often seem to spring to mind, particularly if business related, along the lines of “If we start to expand, how many people will I have to employ?”, “Perhaps we will have to move to new premises”, “ What about the effects on tax?” etc etc. Again the more we question ourselves, and create worry in our minds, the less likely we are to change things.
One other fear is “What will other people think? Will they be smug if we fail, or will they be jealous if we succeed?” Sometimes we may ask our friends and colleagues what their opinion is of the action we propose to take. Some will be positive because they think that is what we want to hear, and a few will be negative. Of the negative ones, some may be offering a genuine opinion based on facts, but others may be offering negative feelings to stop you from changing, thereby stopping them from having to do things to improve their lot, (bringing people down to their level syndrome). But whatever the opinions offered, the more you seek them, and the more you wonder about the outcomes, yet again you are more likely to maintain the status quo.
To take the “leap of faith” can be very scary. BUT imagine all the good things that could happen, don’t worry about what other people may think, and go ahead anyway.
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