Three Steps to Overcome any Fear

I was scared I’d be rejected.?

I was scared no one would like it.?

I was scared…

Which is why it took me so long to start posting content.?

But now I’ve been posting five days a week for 18 months. This is how I overcome my fears to do so.?

When I started my personal development journey, I was looking for a way to challenge myself.?

I knew posting content would be a challenge because I was scared to do it. Plus, I was looking for a way to write more, so LinkedIn was the obvious choice.?

But, I still had all those wrong questions filling my head. Even worse, once I decided to start posting on LinkedIn, a more toxic question popped into my head…

“What will my employer think?”

Needless to say, my fears were controlling me because they kept me from creating content.?

Here are the three steps I took to overcome those fears and start posting content.

Step one: Acknowledge the fear.

For so long I told myself creating content wasn’t for me. I believed it, until I went to start and was scared. I had to acknowledge this fear was real before I could start to overcome it.?

The reason is because if I didn’t acknowledge the fear, I would have continued to tell myself creating content wasn’t for me. But the truth is, I was just scared.?

Step two: Identify a reason to overcome it.?

No one does anything uncomfortable if they don’t have a reason to do it. I knew it would be uncomfortable to overcome my fears, so I took the time to get clear and compelling reasons to overcome them.?

For me, my reason to start posting content was because I wanted to learn a skill which would help me build a business.?

Step three: Face the fear.?

It wasn’t easy or fun at first. But, what I realized is that fears are larger in our minds than in reality.?

This experience showed me that the more I face my fear, the less power it has over me. And I learned the fears go away the more I face them.

This process helped me in creating content, phone sales, starting new jobs and almost everything I’ve done.?

It will not be easy at first, but it will be worth it.?

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