FM Walsh & Associates Inc.

As an entrepreneur I have come to recognize how insidious fear can be at times. It approaches you quietly, subtly and faintly whispers in your ear – and you find yourself holding back without even realizing it.

I experienced this myself last week. I was having lunch with a business associate in LA and she mentioned the fear she had experienced prior to doing a pitch for a big project and how she allowed it to let her believe her competition were a better fit for the account that her. (The client didn’t agree – they hired her.) We laughed about it and toasted her success.

A few hours later I was thinking about a big project that I have in front of me which I have been wrestling with. I had put my foot-dragging down to having too much other work and other priorities that came first. But in a moment of clarity, I realized it was fear that was holding me back from jumping on this. Once I realized this, I wrote out a quick plan of action for the project, did those action items immediately and got the contract!

That’s the funny thing about fear – once you acknowledge that it is there and take action anyway – it loses its power to affect you. My challenge to you today: look at what you are procrastinating on in your life and take one action step to get it going. That is the best way to get fear out of your life.