Be Afraid……Then Do It Anyway

Fear is powerful.

Fear will keep you from doing what you love and discovering new things. We let fear get the best of us most of the time. I know I’m guilty of that more often than I care to admit. Once we let fear take over it’s hard to come back and defeat it in order to move forward with out lives. 

Whether it be a fear of getting behind a wheel after you or someone you know has been in an accident, or never going on that vacation to the Grand Canyon with your friends/family because you have a fear of heights that you may not even know where it came from. Being afraid is a normal human instinct that we all posses. However, some of us learn to deal with it.

You see the people that are out and hang gliding and cliff diving and having this wonderful adventurous life that we just can’t understand because we’re afraid to get off of the couch and put ourselves out there. Those people are afraid too but they’ve learned to deal. They’ve learned to put the fear behind them in order to move forward with what they love. Everyone is afraid of something. I deal with fear on a daily basis. I hate, hate, HATE calling people I don’t know.

Want me to call and order pizza? Nope, I’m using an app for that. Want me to call and see if they have your favorite game at Game Stop? Nope, I’m going to bribe someone else to do that. How can I manage to be a Business Coach if I’m afraid of calling people?

I have to talk to people I don’t know and sell myself and my abilities on a daily basis. Very hard to do when you’re scared. So how do I do it? I’m afraid, but I do it anyway. I remember my first Coaching call. My hands were shaking so badly it was hard to write legibly. I couldn’t sit still so I was pacing during the call. I don’t think my client noticed because they hired my anyway, but I was terrified. Funny thing is each call was easier than the last.

I still get nervous calling a potential client for the first time. Will they like me? Will I like them? Does it make sense for us to do business together? Sometimes yes and sometimes no. Fear is not a bad thing, letting fear keep me from doing what I love is. What are you letting fear keep you from doing? What experiences are you missing out on because you’re afraid?

Write 3 things down that you are not doing because you are afraid and pick one. Just one. Then…..be afraid, but do it anyway.