How I overcame my inauthentic fear of failure?

I had a crunch time today financially. I gotta pay my bills and I don’t have the money. All the guys I had lent money to, are unable to pay me right now. In the background of these conversations I was glad that they couldn’t pay me back. This way I have an opportunity to utilize my dormant potential of creating money!

Then came idea no 4 – “Handwriting Analysis for free and for a fee”. Since I am already working with handwriting analysis, I thought I gotta make money with this only. It would be a good motivation for me to learn more on the subject. I decided to place “Drop your handwriting Here” boxes in some of the retail shops near my house (after talking to their owners of course) and place 100 posters all over my layout. But somehow I just kept hovering around the shops and didn’t speak to anyone. The shops were so congested that no one had any chance to write properly. Then I saw a big big mall. I thought of approaching the manager of the mall, but a weird feeling of fear gripped me. A fear of rejection I guess. So I didn’t go inside the mall and came home instead. After coming home I spoke to Mamta and she cleared my mind out. Then I went again. Man it took me a 5 minute talk to get a ‘yes’. I have so much of practice of getting a ‘yes’ with the registration conversations taught in SELP . This is one more added to the list.

So the point boils down to “how to overcome your fear?”. Well whatever fear we have is inauthentic 99% of the time. In my case I was afraid of the rejection that existed nowhere but in my imagination. How authentic is that??? So whenever you have a fear, ask your self.. “is my imagination playing the game or is it reality?”. If it is imagination then just chuck it off and go ahead and do whatever is needed. Chances are you might fail, but failing is much better than not trying. Its like playing a game and loosing rather than not turning in the field itself.

Overcoming this fear has been an important breakthrough for me! Thanks Mamta.