More on Dealing with Fear

Fear is a huge stumbling block for many small business owners, as we discussed in our blog Is Fear of Failure Controlling You? Fear can hold you back in both your personal and professional life, and end up costing you big! So we thought it really wouldn't hurt to give you a bit more on dealing with fear.

There are two ways to react to fear:

1. F.E.A.R. - FORGET EVERYTHING AND RUN

OR

2. F.E.A.R. - FACE EVERYTHING AND RISE

Let's look at this a little more...

Story Time

You've stayed up late organising a big email campaign and with quite a bit of relief and satisfaction you hit schedule on the first email to go out and head to bed. You give yourself the luxury of a late wake up time, knowing that you've done the work and at 8am your client list will be recieving the first of a very well organised campaign of emails. 

At 8.05am you wake up with a start. You made a mistake. Perhaps a forgotten link or you left a zero off the price... Yeakk!! What now?

You have two choices: 

1 Forget everything and run - or hide under the blankets and lament your failure.

or

2. Face everything and rise - jump out of bed and say to yourself "I made a boo boo" and see what you can do to fix the problem.

Moving on

You're human, you're going to make mistakes but as we talked about previously it's about what you do with those mistakes. So here is more on dealing with fear.

1. It won't help your business to panic, flounder, sulk or curl up in a ball and hide. But as we just said, you are human, so give yourself a few minutes to have the tantrum or experience the pain. Allow those few minutes and then move on! You've wallowed, now fix it!
2. So you've sent out a correction email, now what? Well what have you learned from your mistake? Perhaps to get your work proofed (double proofed!) before you send it out? Maybe you've learned that if you'd had more time, you would have been more careful? Whatever the lesson (and there will be at least one for every mistake!), record it, analysise it and move on with the new lesson learned.