Don't Let Fear of Failure Stop You from Starting a Small Business

The obstacle to starting a small business is not actually about products or selling or money, it's fear. If fear of failure is what is preventing you from starting a small business, you have to get around it and forge ahead.

How to Break Your Paralysis

How can you break your paralysis and do this? You have to do two things:

 1) Prepare to Succeed

2) Change Your Attitude towards Failure

  1) Prepare to Succeed

The first thing you need to do to prepare to succeed is to learn how to do it. You already know how to fail. You can fail by doing nothing or you can fail by doing stupid things. But how do you succeed? By finding out exactly what you would need to be successful and ensuring that those needs are met.

2) Change Your Attitude towards Failure

Why are you afraid of failure?

Most people fear failure for one of these two reasons:

·         Failure makes you a bad person, a “loser” that others look down on.

·         You could lose all or most of your money and/or your possessions.

Both of these are misconceptions.

Failure doesn’t change your genes or your personality. It affects some people’s actions negatively, but it’s not negative in itself. Will you be a “loser” if you fail? Only if you allow yourself to be. “It’s not being down; it’s staying down” that makes you a loser.

source: About.com Money