Hey Ambitious Professionals! It's Linda Raynier of lindaraynier.com guiding you
to a career in life you'll truly enjoy. And in today's video, I'm gonna get a
little bit more personal and I'm gonna share with you three key steps that have
really helped me to overcome the fear of failure and so this would be really
helpful to you if you're someone who also struggles with fear of failure or
you've recently experienced failure in your life
as a career strategist I've had the honour of being able to help numerous
professionals land their dream job offers and so if this is something that
you're interested in working with me one on one I can give you details about that
at the end of this video now many of us including myself have gotten stuck in
our lives we've had periods where we've felt stuck because of the fact that we
were afraid to do something because we felt that we may not be successful at it
so we had a fear of failure and that's completely understandable but coming
from someone who has experienced failures in my life I now see failure as
something completely different from how many people see it and in order for you
to overcome this fear of failure or even a recent failure that you've experienced
it's really all about shifting your perceptions and your beliefs on what you
consider failure to be so I'm going to share with you three steps on how you
can overcome your fear of failure and become more resilient as a result step
number one recognize that you're putting way too much emphasis on what others
think of you and it needs to stop the truth is people who are afraid of
failure aren't necessarily afraid of the failure itself as much as they're afraid
of what others would think of them if they were to find out that they failed
this is a cold order for you if you happen to be someone who has a big fear
of failure if you are to be truly honest with yourself there's probably an aspect
to your life where you're living your life based on what others expect of you
rather than living your life on your own terms and going after your own ambitious
goals people who are afraid of failure say things like what will people think
of me how will people feel of me how will I feel about myself in return what
are people gonna say about me living your life this way from the outside in
rather than the inside out causes a lot of unnecessary worry uncertainty and
unsettled this within you I know this because I've experienced it firsthand
but once I realized that I was placing way too much emphasis
what other people thought of me I knew that I had to turn it around because at
the end of the day life isn't about just meeting other people's expectations life
is about meeting your own goals your own dreams for what you want and what you
feel is going to make you happiest so stop giving too much power over to other
people in your life and don't even think about the possibilities of what's going
on in their minds step number two to overcoming your fear of failure project
the best-case scenario always if you're afraid of failure it's
partly because you have an amazing imagination you have a great imagination
it's great at imagining the worst-case scenario your imagination is so good
that it is great at being able to see everything that can go wrong in the
worst possible way do you know how many people who have had fears of failures
tell me their worst-case scenarios that are going through their heads it's
insane so if this is you what do you do instead
you do the complete opposite instead of imagining the worst-case scenario I want
you to imagine what is the best possible scenario that could potentially happen
out of all of this what it was that going to look like what is that gonna
feel like the more often that you can visualize and see what the best possible
outcome could be out of any situation the more likely that you're gonna feel
that it is a true possibility for you step number three accept the idea that
failure makes you a more confident person there are two types of confident
people out there there are the confident people who are confident because they've
never failed and so in a sense it's more of a superficial kind of confidence and
then there are the other types of confident people who have failed fairly
often in their lives and because they've gone through these types of experiences
and situations the level of confidence that they have within themselves is much
more grounded they know themselves better because of the experiences and
the failures that they've gone through so now the question for you is which
kind of confident person are you if you're confident are you confident
because you know you are or because you tell yourself that you are when you can
allow yourself to fail what ends up happening through that process is an
unraveling and a discovery of who you actually are inside because you once had
this notion this idea of who you were as an individual someone who never failed
someone who is perfect you wanted to try to maintain that but until you
experienced that failure only do you really discover who you really are
inside if you're not someone who is always perfect then who are you really
and that's what the beauty of failure offers that is the gift in being able to
experience failure you're able to discover who you really are
beyond the failures beyond the successes in that question of being able to ask
yourself so Who am I really is a beautiful beginning for you it's a
beautiful gateway for you to be able to start to understand who you are at a
deeper level beyond your failures beyond your successes and beyond your mind made
perception of yourself so the next time that you have to make a decision or you
have to do something and you're afraid to do it because you are worried about
failing remember that even if you do end up failing even if it doesn't work out
that at the end of the day you're gonna be able to learn a little bit more about
yourself and you're gonna be able to gain a little bit more confidence along
the way so there you have it my three steps on how you can start to overcome
your fear of failure and begin your journey of really getting to know
yourself and gaining self-confidence now if you're someone who is currently
searching for a new position you're wanting to make a career change you've
been looking for a while but it hasn't been successful and you realize that you
need one-on-one professional guidance then feel free to reach out to me head
on over to my website lindaraynier.com/standoutgethired feel free to read
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will see you in the next video