| As a blossoming work from home entrepreneur, you | | | | is strengthened by familiarity and knowledgeable |
| will likely understand the importance of learning | | | | bravery. |
| operations, finance and the various forms of | | | | > Indifference: One of the five primary ways in |
| advertising on your journey to success. | | | | which fear rears its head is through indifference. This is |
| Just as important on your journey is a comprehension | | | | when you simply aren't in the game at all; you've |
| of how to remain positive and brave in an industry | | | | submitted yourself to the dodging of risk-taking by |
| laden with risk-taking and pressure from competition. | | | | turning away. |
| In 1933, in his inaugural address after defeating Herbert | | | | > Indecision: Indifference differs from indecision - the |
| Hoover for the Presidency of the United States, | | | | second of the five faces of fear - because with |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt told us that "the only thing we | | | | indecision you are looking into the eyes of opportunity |
| have to fear is fear itself." | | | | but are frozen with - you guessed it - fear. |
| His words referred to the Great Depression that | | | | > Doubt, Worry and Over-Caution: The next two |
| shrouded the nation with hesitancy, but his meaning | | | | faces of fear are also synonymously linked: doubt and |
| echoes through the decades as a call for wisdom in | | | | worry. |
| the conquering of the single most common obstacle to | | | | Doubt can be classified as the over-emphasis of the |
| success and happiness, especially when it comes to | | | | possibility of an unhappy ending. For some people, a |
| launching a home based business: fear, and it's point of | | | | five percent chance of failure constitutes enough |
| origin, we personally. | | | | doubt to stay on the sidelines. They overvalue the |
| Correct, all too regularly we jump in with a fantastic | | | | likelihood of failure over the much more likely chance |
| product and a well researched plan of action, but the | | | | of success. |
| ship eventually sinks thanks to the person manning the | | | | Worry, on the other hand, is what opens the door to |
| crows nest allowing the enemy of fear to guide us into | | | | doubt. The majority of business opportunities |
| the rocks. | | | | encompass a degree of risk, this of course includes a |
| Fear is found naturally within us - we're nurtured to | | | | home based business, so in theory there is a |
| identify and react to marked danger - and the result of | | | | "possibility" of failure. |
| what we go through in life. When you step off the | | | | When you worry about that chance to excess, you |
| curb in front of a bus and a bolt of adrenaline shoots | | | | begin to doubt the probability that you will succeed, and |
| you across the street faster than an Olympic sprinter, | | | | suddenly you are frozen with indecision and |
| that's instinct. | | | | over-caution (the fifth mask of fear), which is the |
| If a business opportunity eludes you due to your own | | | | tendency to choose from fear repeatedly through |
| hesitation or you simply didn't want to squander your | | | | surrender to worry and doubt. |
| precious funding, you're caving in to the assassin of | | | | These five faces of fear - indifference, indecision, |
| success - your inherent fear. The good news is that | | | | doubt, worry and over-caution - are separated only by |
| you can do something about it, and it begins by | | | | matters of degree and nuance. They are at once |
| recognizing what forms these home based business | | | | sequential - one leading toward the next - and |
| deal killers often assume. | | | | synonymous, and they are empowered only to the |
| Ask a successful person in any business, and they'll tell | | | | extent they conquer reason and solid planning. |
| you that fear really is the enemy of success. And | | | | Once recognized as something that is skewing your |
| because fear is easily disguised as something more | | | | judgment, you take their power away and allow your |
| digestible to our self-image - there are five faces of | | | | better business instincts to prevail. |
| fear, in fact, all thinly veiled versions of the same thing - | | | | When you step into your fear, be on the lookout for |
| we don't recognize the enemy for what it is. | | | | these five seductive doors, all of which inevitably lead |
| Our journey towards success takes us first to the | | | | to failure, and all of which can be slammed shut before |
| undertaking of recognition, and then onto confronting | | | | they turn your dream, as a home based business |
| fear head on by making a knowledgeable decision that | | | | entrepreneur, into a nightmare. |