FEARS – What are you afraid of?
| Posted in Network Marketing, Rejections | Posted on 21-01-2010
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F= Failure
E= Embarrasment
A= Abandoment
R= Rejection
S= Success
FEARS, we all have them. I know I have them and you do too. And they are costing us a fortune. Why? Because they are holding us back from accomplishing what we want to accomplish. What we COULD accomplish. Ships in a harbor are safe, but that’s not what they were build for. They were build to sail.
What are our FEARS as they pertain to network marketing?
F= Failure
There’s the Fear of Failure. We are afraid we will fail in whatever we set out to accomplish. Because of this fear we often set our goals very low. We want to stay in our comfort zone. Be safe. However, this keeps us from growing.
E= Embarrasment
Although we are very excited about our new business opportunity, oftentimes we don’t want to share it with our family and friends because we are afraid what they may think or say about us.
A= Abandonment
There’s the Fear of Abandonment. We may be afraid that our sponsor will leave us and go to the next deal. Or we are afraid that the new person we just sponsored may quit on us. Or, that the team we have build over many months may jump ship and go someplace else. This may rock our belief in our company and stop us dead in our tracks.
R= Rejection
The Fear of Rejection is a big one and one I personally have struggled with for years. Until I learned that that my prospects didn’t reject ME but the opportunity I was presenting. It either wasn’t right for them or the timing wasn’t right. It wasn’t personal. As soon as I learned that, I no longer had any problem with rejections.
S= Success
The Fear of Success is another big one. Oftentimes we are afraid to succeed. Afraid to get to the next level. The “what if’s” start creeping up in our thoughts. What if…I’m not going to be a good leader? What if…I will fail my team? What if…I can’t handle the money I will be earning? (Yeah, as strange as it sounds, some people are afraid of earning 10K, 20K, 30K a month. They’ve never made that kind of money and they can’t imagine how they would handle that.)
The bottom line is, if you don’t get rid of your FEARS you won’t be able to grow. And most certainly you won’t reach your dreams. So, get rid of them!
“You must make your dreams more real than your fears.” _Robert Allen
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Hey Ilka
Great post
Yes we do all have FEAR.
I am learning to manage my fears and push pass what held me back onto success.
Fear is largely down to conditioning. Condition from ourselves and from others. With this being the case it can be overcome.
Best regards
Dwayne
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Ilka Flood Reply:
January 28th, 2010 at 8:43 pm
You are absolutely right, Dwayne. Most fears are not real anyway. They are only in our heads and they do keep us from what we could accomplish. Pushing past them is the first step.
It’s like the little eaglets in the nest. Of course the mother is doing the ‘pushing’ there. But if she wouldn’t gently keep pushing those little eaglets would never learn how to fly.
So let’s both keep pushing
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We all have FEAR! What matters is how we deal with it. I have always seen/heard it as: False Expectations Appearing Real. When you consider that approximately 98% of what we worry/fear doesn’t ever happen, we shouldn’t have that much fear, right?. Unfortunately, that is easier said than done ;o).
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Ilka Flood Reply:
March 27th, 2010 at 9:38 am
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Have a nice day!
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