Fear and anxiety can hold you back from building the business of your dreams. If you want massive growth in your business, you need to overcome fear and invest in yourself.

Want to see massive growth in your business? We all do! But first we have to overcome the fear that is holding us back. The keys to doing so are surrounding yourself with supportive like-minded people and investing in yourself by hiring a coach.

Fear in Entrepreneurship will hold you back from massive growth in your business 

Fear can literally make us or break us. It can lead to procrastination, which can lead to paralysis. Fear is not something we experience only in our business, but also in life, in so many ways. Suzanne uses the analogy of a roller coaster as an analogy for fear.

Often as entrepreneurs, we forget how far we’ve come, especially, after fear has held us back along our journey.

Actions to take to overcome fear to achieve massive growth in your business

For Suzanne, the first step in overcoming fear meant connecting with others who are on a similar journey and are as focused on helping her as she is on helping them. To provide a mirror for each other to see how great you are doing because you don’t see it yourself.

Sometimes, we have someone else to remind us that we have accomplished so much. When we support ourselves with others who will remind us of the things we needed to be reminded of.

Second, Suzanne connected her procrastination and concerns with imperfection with depression and anxiety along her journey. Once she saw the connection and was able to name what she was experiencing, she realized she had to get help to overcome the underlying problems, depression, and anxiety feelings. It is so important to recognize our emotions.

Robyn emphasized that as women and entrepreneurs we lose sight of what we have accomplished because we are so focused on what we still must do.

An exercise that can help you recognize all that you have accomplished when feeling down about your business

An exercise to do when you feel like you haven’t meant your goals is to make a list of all the things that you have done. Start with 25 things that you have done well and that has helped your business. Include all the things you’ve done effectively and well, that have made an impact, including the distractions.

Discovering when help is needed to overcome fear so that you can achieve massive growth in your business

Suzanne shared her experience with a panic attack that landed her in the hospital. It is important to note that there is never shame in seeking help, in fact, it can be freeing. When you have mental health challenges, you and your significant others can’t navigate them alone, and you can’t just “get over it”. Robyn emphasized that she has a chapter in You, Me, and Anxiety that addresses the concept of “get over it”.

Download Robyn’s free eBook on Building a Strong Foundation for Business Success.

Suzanne emphasized how much more she knows, how much more confident she is, and how much more she can help her clients through her experience with coaches and investing in herself.

Our beliefs about ourselves are so fundamental to what we can accomplish

Robyn mentioned that with clarity comes confidence. And when you have confidence in yourself, your clients are going to have more confidence in you. Likewise, when you have confidence in yourself you will trust yourself more. When you trust yourself, your audience and clients will trust you.

Confidence is something that when in a place of fear, you think confidence isn’t achievable, but when you get the help you need, you can become confident and convert your audience to clients.

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