How many successful, influential and wealthy people have you been around or know personally? How do you think they became as successful as they are today? The most common misconception is that they were "born" that way, or that they have always been successful.
What we don't see, unless we dig deep, is the pain and struggle that those same successful people experienced while getting to the top.
We didn't see how many times that they "failed".
No matter who you are, everybody experiences temporary defeat sometimes.
Yet, true failure just means that you've given up or quit.
The fear of failure in business is what keeps so many people from even attempting to start working for themselves.
It seems that it's easier to stay in a miserable job than to ever try to strike out on your own.
I guess that "...
it's the devil you know".
Giving up before you ever reach your goals is quitting, which equals failure.
Working a plan that hasn't gotten you where you want to be isn't failure, it's just part of the learning process.
Think about the young boy trying to learn how to hit the baseball.
Is he a failure if he doesn't hit the ball the first time.
Absolutely not! He merely needs to practice a different approach until he's hitting that ball consistently.
Somewhere along the way, our fear of failure in business and in life creeps in and can paralyze us, if we let it.
Napolean Hill wrote the great book, "Think And Grow Rich".
He writes, "No man is ever whipped, until he quits...
in his own mind.
" Our society is so focused on instant gratification that any setback can be seen as failure.
In truth, it's just temporary defeat that narrows the road to success.
You have to know what doesn't work to find out what does work.
If you're truly passionate about being your own boss, work tirelessly to overcome your fear of failure in business by setting a plan for success in motion.
You have to come up with a definite plan and know that you will reach your goal.
Napolean Hill is quoted as saying, "Money, of itself, is nothing but inert matter.
It cannot move, think, or talk, but it can 'hear' when a man who desires it, calls it to come!" Demand success of yourself by giving yourself no other options.
To help you along the way, look for like-minded people to associate with.
Find the leaders and look at what's working for them and then put it into practice.
Study those leaders wisely and soon, you can become one of them.