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Getting Over the Fear of Being An Entrepreneur

Fear and doubt are what stop most people from becoming an entrepreneur, along with the idea that getting a "safe" job is more practical. The reality is that our fears and doubts are often based in irrational worst-case scenarios and becoming an entrepreneur is not necessarily that impractical

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Nearly every success story — every hero’s journey—involves overcoming some fear. In fact, read enough success stories, and you might just conclude that fear itself is the greatest inhibitor of success. Have the courage to face your fears, and continue on your path despite those fears, and you will undoubtedly know this to be true.

I became an entrepreneur in 2013, in the middle of divorce, with no money and no clients. I had wanted for some time to be my own boss, to escape the limitations of the environment that was financially supporting me, but there was always a reason to put it off. Those reasons all fell under the very vague umbrella of “it just wasn’t practical.” But why?

Everywhere I looked, it seemed that plenty of equally or less qualified people were living my dream, freely pursuing their passion and doing something they loved for a living. These were ordinary people with ordinary lives — school debt, mortgages, little league baseball games, etc. — they were not all Steve Jobs or Elon Musk. The only distinction between these entrepreneurs having their own business and me not having my own was that they got up the courage and took the initiative to actually start their own business. I, on the other hand, was paralyzed by fear and doubt.

Related: How to Conquer Your Fear of Starting a Business

Fear and doubt are not exactly the same thing. Fear is emotional, a feeling; doubt is uncertainty, or not knowing. It takes courage to overcome fear, while it takes faith to overcome doubt. To act out of courage is to act despite your fears. To act out of faith is to act knowingly despite having proof.

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