Small Business Revitalization Blog

Three-quarters of the year has whizzed by! Are your new year’s resolutions long forgotten? What did you achieve in those 6570 hours? What do you plan to achieve with the 2000 or so hours left in 2008? What are you waiting for? Do you need a support team to get back on track? What would it take to achieve with ease? Will you take the 55 Day "REVIVE Your Dream" Challenge with us? Starts 1 October 2008 - Call the Resuscitation Experts for more information!

Here are my top 3 coaching questions you can ask yourself to discover if your greatest barrier to success is actually the fear of failure... When was the last time you had a business project or idea fail? If it was less than a month ago, it's possible that the fear of failure has you paralysed! No failures probably means you aren't having that many successes either!!  Trial and error worked pretty well for Einstein (and a few other geniuses that come to mind...)  Every failure is taking you one step closer to success. What important action 'should' you have taken by now that you are procrastinating on? Are you procrastinating because you're concerned about failing? Think of it this way - you already have a 'no' so go ahead and do it anyway! What if you were to succeed? What would your upside be?

Does your idea feel 'too big'? If you are feeling stuck, not sure where to start, or completely overwhelmed, then maybe your idea is so big that you are weighed down by the spectre of failure. Breaking your idea into manageable steps that feel achieveable is a great cure!

Lastly, if you reframe any failure as a learning experience then there is no way you can see it as a failure. There is a silver lining in every cloud - the trick is to make sure you don't repeat the same mistakes over and over! Ask yourself: What have I learned here? Whilst there's learning there's life - in your business and in yourself!!

Would you like to share your experiences or perspectives on success or failure? Tell us about your experiences in the comments section below. If you need to share more than just a comment (ie you're looking for help!), call the Revitalisation Experts!