Overcoming Self Doubt

Self doubt is a big killer of tak­ing action. It causes you to hes­i­tate or not even move for­ward at all. And of course that will take your busi­ness nowhere.

Every­one has self doubt about their abil­i­ties. Espe­cially when they are new. So here is a sim­ple exer­cise that you can use to help you over­come your fears.

— Write down what you need to do that your resis­tant to do. These are the things your hes­i­tat­ing to do. You keep putting them off and telling your­self you will do it later. Write these down and take a look at them.

— Think of the reward you will get by doing this. Think of the out­come if you were to actu­ally fol­low through with it. Write this down as well.

— Now write down the excuses you come up with not to do this. Why are you hes­i­tat­ing? Why are you afraid? I think that most of the time you will find that your fears and self doubt are pretty eas­ily overcome.

Doing this lays it out on the table and allows you to take a good look at things. As I said, you’ll find that most of the time your excuses are just that, excuses. It’s only nat­ural to be put off by what isn’t com­fort­able. But to become a great mar­keter you always have to be push­ing your own bound­aries. Once you make the jump, you’ll real­ize you should have done so a long time ago.

~Chris

This is from an exer­cise from Dave Navarro and his newest project 7 Steps to Play­ing a Much Big­ger Game… I love his con­tent and it’s all about mak­ing your­self bet­ter for you and your busi­ness. Our busi­ness grows as we grow our­selves. So go check it out. It’s some of the best self improve­ment con­tent I’ve come across. Plus it’s free!

And no, this is no affil­i­ate link or any­thing. He had a con­test for spread­ing the word, but that is over as well. I just wanted to pass on the great con­tent. It’s straight to the source.

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