Why Fear is an Entrepreneur’s Best Friend

Why Fear is an Entrepreneur's #1 Best Friend

With each passing year, there are more people venturing into the world of entrepreneurship. Whether their professional change was forced upon them or it was their choice, there is no question many more people are in this space than ever before.

As the number of entrepreneurs continues to increase, so too does the number of times the question is asked, “What is the secret to being successful as an entrepreneur”? Is there a magic pill that helps you to see into the future and know what to do?

While that would be great to have it obviously doesn’t exist. There is how something which is very real and every successful entrepreneur uses it to their advantage; this advantage comes from fear!

How is Fear an Entrepreneur’s Friend?

We know from all the people we have successfully helped design their dream lifestyle, many times fear stops people in their tracks. It keeps them doing what they know they need to do because their anxiety and fear of the unknown scares them so much, it literally paralyzes them into their current position.

In the entrepreneurial world, there really is something powerful about fear and how you can use it to motivate you to new heights. Let’s face it, at its heart entrepreneurship is frightening. Most entrepreneurs have literally wagered everything they have into their new enterprise to be successful. This risk puts them under immense pressure and stress. This also translates to all their investors and their friends, so there is actually more to lose than just finances.

However for successful entrepreneurs, from the start they use this fear, which is ever-present to their advantage. They use it as a push, as an extra driver to help them to breakthrough personal barriers they otherwise would not have been able to conquer.

Another great example of a successful entrepreneur and how they used fear to build and live their dream is Boland Jones. He is the founder, chairman and CEO of PGi, a company that hosts virtual meetings with people in countries all over the world. Boland specifies the three areas he used to build his successful ventures; Identifying the Sources of Fear, Finding Motivation from the Fear and Embracing the Challenge. Read his great article on Why Fear is the Entrepreneur’s Best Friend.

If you are ready to step into the world of entrepreneurship but do not have a business idea, let Engineered Lifestyles help you. With our team of mentors, we can sit down with you to assess your goals and put together a plan backed by a billion-dollar business, to allow you to achieve your goals. Contact Engineered Lifestyles today and start using fear as your ally as you build your dreams.

* Engineered Lifestyles does not guarantee any level of success or income from the NHT Global Business opportunity or any other money-making opportunity. Every independent distributor’s income depends on his or her own efforts, diligence, and skill. Please see our full Earnings Disclaimer here.

Inspiration 

Recurring meetings can reveal recurring process problems.

If the same group repeatedly meets to:

👉 Find information.
👉 Clarify ownership.
👉 Check status.
👉 Resolve the same confusion.
👉 Or manually coordinate predictable work...

there may be an opportunity to improve the underlying system.

Some meetings are essential.

Others are symptoms.

If a meeting disappeared tomorrow, what process would need to replace it?

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Try a different content format.
Change your opening hooks.
Talk about a topic you've been avoiding.
Engage more before publishing more.
Track conversations instead of likes.

Give the experiment enough time to learn something from it.

Q4 doesn't need more content. It needs better information about what works.

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Entrepreneurs are conditioned to solve problems.

That's usually useful.

But some realities can't be optimized away.

Customers will occasionally say no.
Competitors will exist.
Some decisions will involve uncertainty.
Not every idea will work.

Trying to eliminate every uncomfortable part of business can consume enormous energy.

Sometimes the productive response isn't fixing the reality.

It's accepting it and deciding what to do next.

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Your story can make a brand memorable.

But customers usually arrive with another priority:

Their problem.

Start there.

Show that you understand what they're trying to accomplish. Demonstrate how you can help. Build relevance first.

Then your history, mission, values, and story have context.

Your story becomes more interesting once the customer understands why your business matters to them.

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