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In episode 29 of The Creative and Ambitious Entrepreneur Podcast, we are discussing how to overcome the fear of success as an online entrepreneur. The idea of fearing success might sound confusing. Why would you fear something you want? But once you explore the idea further, you’ll see that it’s very real and how it may be affecting your life. It’s critical to overcome this fear as an entrepreneur because you depend on your business for your income source! If you’re overwhelmed with fear, that’s not helping you make money. We want to show you how to work through that fear.
But before we dive right in, let us introduce ourselves in case this is your first visit. Welcome to The Creative and Ambitious Entrepreneur Podcast. We’re your hosts, Jen and Elke Clarke. We are a mother and daughter team that started Zazzle e-commerce businesses over 10 years ago and has sold over 15 million dollars-worth and counting of products on Zazzle.
The Creative and Ambitious Entrepreneur Podcast is for you, the creative. We share actionable steps that you can take to make money in your e-commerce business. In each episode, we will take you one step closer to achieving freedom with your time, location, and finances.
We believe that a profitable e-commerce business is what opens the doors for you to start living your dream life if you work smarter, not harder, use the right tools and follow the proven roadmap. We’re here to give you the tools you need to make your dream life happen. Let’s get started!
Today we will talk about how the fear of success can affect your business and how you can overcome it to move forward. For all the details, listen to the ENTIRE episode of The Creative and Ambitious Entrepreneur Podcast on your preferred streaming platform.
First of all, believe it or not, people tend to have a fear to even get started and get on the path to success! If this fear sounds like something you’ve encountered, you may have found yourself thinking that since you haven’t been successful in the past, you won’t be successful now.
If you’re finding yourself procrastinating from even starting to work towards your goals, there might be something in your past that’s stopping you from taking action NOW.
The second type is the fear of success once you do achieve it. You might not feel worthy of the success you have. You might have a feeling that it will be difficult to maintain this level of success once it’s achieved. Success might feel like a burden or an extra responsibility.
It might not be obvious that you have a fear of success. To evaluate if you have this fear, it’s helpful to look at the actions you’re taking. Are you avoiding taking the steps you know are necessary to achieve success? Are you minimizing your accomplishments? Are you excessively worrying about maintaining your success? These are signs that indicate you may very well have a fear of success.
The good news is that you can overcome this fear with practice and awareness of your beliefs!
You can begin to overcome the fears behind success by firstly asking yourself if the fears are true. Are they real? Are these fears likely to happen?
We have an incredible coach in a mastermind that taught us a way to put fears in perspective. She would ask, “Is there blood?”. What she meant by that is, “Is it life-threatening? Is anyone seriously hurt or dying?” Most of the time the answer would be “No”. This helps to evaluate your fears and puts things in perspective.
By asking this question, you can work through the fears in a more productive manner and realize it’s not as big of a problem you may be making it out to be.
Our second tip to overcome fears of success is to focus on the present moment and the small steps you can take each day! We have a limited amount of things in our control. It’s wasted energy to focus on what we can’t control.
All we really have is this present moment. We can choose to take small actions in the present moment that will eventually lead us where we want to go. It’s easy to get overwhelmed and spiral when we think too far ahead. It’s best for you and your business to stay in the present.
Our third tip is to CELEBRATE your wins! You can treat yourself to something big or small. This can be anything you like to do such as hanging out with a friend or getting your nails done.
You can do whatever makes you feel good! It’s really nice to celebrate your success with other people. Friends and family can be great for that, but we know that since friends and family are not fellow designers, they might not fully grasp what our success means.
As fellow designers, we want to celebrate your success with you! Our Facebook group is an awesome place to do just that. It’s full of fellow Zazzle entrepreneurs who will cheer you on.
Finally, you can write in a “Win journal.” Get a journal where you write your wins of the day, both big and small. This will help you feel good about your success, and it’s also helpful to document where you are on your journey – you can look back and see how far you have come.
We have both struggled with the fear of success in our lives. Sometimes it still creeps in, but we are able to work through it. Using the tools that we talked about here in the podcast has helped us overcome our fears which have led to us achieving BIG results. Try these as well and with practice, overcoming your fears will be much easier.
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Jen and Elke Clarke are a mother-daughter duo that empowers women entrepreneurs to make money online. Through courses and coaching, Jen and Elke help women (and men) become successful creative entrepreneurs on Zazzle and e-commerce. Combined Jen and Elke have sold over 15 million dollars-worth of products, and earned over $1.5 million combined through their businesses on Zazzle. Jen and Elke have influenced and transformed the lives of hundreds of thousands of people worldwide with their free content, paid and private coaching.
They are international, award-winning authors. Click the links to purchase their books through Amazon: Earn Around The World and Create Online and Grow Rich.
Jen and Elke Clarke have been featured in Yahoo Finance as TOP 5 e-commerce coaches.
