How To Overcome Fear of Failure
You have to complete a big project.
- You're scared.
- Fear causes you to procrastine.
- You become productively SUCK.
How do you overcome your fear?
Instead of seeing the project as some life-threatening freakish event that will happen to your life if you don't successfully complete it, try this:
- Instead of focusing on building the project to make your clients/superiors/audience happy, imagine as if your building the project for your friends/family.
The project immediately becomes less threatening; you start to remove fear and self-doubt, and the work becomes fun/manageable/efficient because you're not draining your energy reserves due to high heart rates caused from stress.
- I will write a paper that excites my friends.
- I will complete a design that impresses my family.
- I will enthrall my friends/family with this projecct.
Eliminate fear. Remove self-doubt. Crush procrastination.
Become more productive.
Friends/family.
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Posted on April 02