Can you deal with the fear?

If you've said yes to the first two issues: having a marketable product or
service and being willing to market it, you still have a major consideration
and that is the fear that you will experience, to some degree or another,
about being in your own business or practice with few, if any, to turn to
for help and encouragement. The fact that you will experience fear, or
uncertainty or anxiety is not the issue. You will experience these emotions
yet how you deal with them will be significant to your success or lack
thereof. It is not necessary for you to have no thoughts of concern, doubt
or disappointment; however, it is important that positive beliefs and
expectations dominate your consciousness. A good part of this objective is
becoming willing to give up anger, resentment and feelings of self-doubt and
unworthiness.

Emerson said, "A man is what he thinks about all day long." While it is not
my role to approach this from a metaphysical perspective, it is non-the-less
true that we bring into our experience what ever we believe and that we
create our beliefs through our thoughts and feelings. In other words, if we
believe we can, we can and if we believe we can't, we can't, even if
otherwise we could. Therefore, nothing is more important to our success,
than our willingness to focus our thoughts and feelings on positive outcomes
and expectations, because if our focus is on negative outcomes, we will
surely experience them. If we focus on failure and bankruptcy, we will
surely experience aspects of failure and difficulty, while a focus on
success and prosperity produces what we truly desire. The simple beauty of
this Universal law is that we do have dominion over our lives by controlling
the only thing we can control; our thoughts and our feelings.

We can overcome fear by placing our thoughts on the goals we have set for
our business and parenthetically for our lives, then imagining the joy that
the success will bring.
By so doing, we receive the insights, the ideas and the inspiration from our
internal computer that will motivate us to take right action required to
achieve the desired outcomes. The happier we are and the more positive we
become, the greater the likelihood that our endeavor will succeed. Our
imaginations work like a magnet to bring us what we want or, conversely,
what we don't want if that is where we place our energy. While fear can be
reduced and even eliminated by having a good plan, adequate financing,
interdependent partners and other physically desirable circumstances,
nothing is more important to our success than our willingness to maintain an
attitude of gratitude and the realization that with consistent commitment to
maintain positive expectancy, we will succeed.

Next time: Overcoming the past

Good day and good work,

Norman

Norman J. York, President
York Career Development, Inc.
3307 Northland Drive, Suite 280
Austin, TX 78731
Austin: 512-502-8258
Houston: 866-502-8258
Cell: 512-656-8239
Web site: www.yorkinc.com

"Your vision will become clear only
when you look into your heart.
Who looks outside, dreams
Who looks inside, awakens"
Carl Jung

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