One the greatest obstacles to our success is our own fear of failure.
We all experience it. That little voice inside our heads that suggests we're not good enough, that nobody cares what we have to say or that we don't have enough expertise to become an authority in our niche.
Everybody experiences the fear, including those we consider super successful. The difference between those that achieve and those that don't is how that fear is handled and the good news is that you can do it.
I'll freely admit that I've fallen victim to the fear of failure many times in my life. There are so many things that I haven't done because I'd listened to that insidious whispering that undermined the confidence that I'd achieve my goals.
It's easy to just say, "don't listen to it" but it doesn't work that way. You're not ignoring an unhelpful friend or well-meaning relative. You're fighting against your own lifetime of experiences and mistakes. We develop mental safeguards to protect us from emotional harm we've received in the past when things went wrong. We learn to survive by avoiding the things that have hurt us before.
The key is reprogramming how we think.
It's a little bit of cognitive behavioral therapy. It's a little bit of neural linguistic programming. It's challenging the way that your brain has evolved to behave.
One of the first things you can do to combat the fear of failure is to make a plan and use goals so you can see what you're doing well and that you're making progress.