What's Holding You Back?

I’ve asked myself this question many times – what’s holding you back?
 
We tend to miss opportunities or living a more enriched life by being afraid to take a leap of faith whether that’s personally or professionally. For example, starting a business can be life changing; however, there are many of us too afraid of the unknowns when choosing to travel down this road.
 
Whether it’s choosing to become an entrepreneur or making a life-changing decision, there is always that fear of something happening opposite of what we are envisioning.
 
What is the worst that can happen? One simple word - failure.
 
According to Merriam Webster’s Dictionary, two short definitions of failure are “lack of success” or “falling short.”
 
Why would you be afraid of possibly failing especially when there are so many chances to recharge and regroup.  
 
Let’s take a brief look at these two aspects:
 
Recharge – Sometimes you have to step away from a challenging situation and take some time to yourself to clear your mind. I think it’s important to shut yourself off for a few hours or days. What does this mean? Basically, turning off the phone for a few hours or take a day or even weekend trip where you can just revitalize your mind, body and spirit.
 
Regroup – Once you’ve had the opportunity to recharge and get back into a positive mindset, then you’ll be able to regroup. During this time, you’ll be able to refocus the efforts of building your business whether that’s a different marketing strategy or even change in organizational makeup. This is also beneficial when deciding to move forward with a personal endeavor.
 
Recharging and regrouping is vitally important with undertaking any major change in your life whether personally or professionally.
 
With that being said, I’ll ask the question again – why are you afraid of the possibility of failing? Nothing is perfect and in any case of entrepreneurship or life-changing decision, you may run the risk of dealing with failure.
 
Should that stop you? I will answer with a resounding “No.”

Two quotes that I will leave with you to ponder on are as follows:
 
“Most people achieved their greatest success one step beyond what looked like their greatest failure.” – Brian Tracy
 
“Every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent success.” – Napoleon Hill
 
Take each failure as a challenge and shift your focus on how you can overcome it then move forward with a renewed outlook as well as strategy.