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A close encounter with fear
How ironic! I’ve watched myself procrastinate for a week finishing my opt-in enticement, an e-course called “How to Stop Fear from Ruining Your Day…and Your Business”.
And of course, it was a form of fear that was stopping me from getting it done.
Fear that it won’t be as good on paper as it is in my head; that it won’t truly reflect the quality of my work. Let’s get primal here: fear that you won’t like me enough. (I would never ever have admitted that when I was in the corporate world, especially not with those childish naked words).
But I’ve become more brutally honest with age.
We teach what we’re supposed to learn!
I’ve joked now and then that I should call myself the fear and confusion queen. I can’t count the times when clients or friends have said how much I’ve been able to help them with both of those in one phone call. Yet here I was, not being willing to apply my own remedies.
Just goes to show you how much we need others to nudge us over our blocks. I knew all the techniques; and it’s not like I wasn’t aware that I was procrastinating.
Sure I had all sorts of reasons not to get to it but don’t we always? There’s always lots else to do and we can rationalize why they’re more important than the one project that’s hanging over our head…heavily.
You’d think it would help to remember that it’s always such a relief to finally get it done, but even that’s usually not enough.
Amazing the hold of those irrational primal fears! In a way, going through this makes me a better coach because it’s such a fresh experience of a common performance impediment.
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