Do you ever look around and wonder why others are having success but you aren’t?   One of the biggest reasons for this is your mindset – and, more importantly, your fears that are keeping you from having a Success Mindset. Your mindset is 95% responsible for your success.  If you don’t believe in yourself (even a little bit) the results you get will reflect that lack of confidence.

Here are the TOP 7 fears of heart-centered entrepreneurs:

1) Fear of Failure.  If you’re afraid that “you” or “it’ won’t be right or won’t work or won’t get you the results you want, you’ll often not get into action or not put everything into what you are doing.  That old “why bother” thought will pop up if you don’t believe you’ll succeed.  Think of all of those people who start and stop the same New Year’s Resolutions year after year.  They may say to themselves “why bother.  I’ve tried before and failed.  What makes me think this time will be different?”.

2) Fear you (or it) won’t be perfect is closely related to the fear of failure.    With the fear you (0r “it”)  won’t be “perfect” stops so many entrepreneurs from taking action.  They look around, compare themselves to others, hear the words they heard growing up, such as, “if you can’t do it right, don’t do it” and they stop dead in their tracks.

3) Fear of rejection stops entrepreneurs from asking for what they want.  They don’t ask for the “sale”…they don’t ask someone to work with them…they don’t ask someone to “partner” with them…they don’t raise their rates and so on.  If this fear applies to you, you won’t give anyone the opportunity to reject you.  You play it “safe” by not taking action.   The problem is if you don’t take action, you won’t be successful.

4) Fear of success.  Often when I hold workshops, this is the one fear that people don’t “get” at first.  It doesn’t make sense to them.  Why wouldn’t they want success?  But, when you think about all of those dieters who lose (and then gain) the same 20 pounds over and over again – what are they afraid of?  Entrepreneurs go thru the same thing with what I call the “good month-bad month” syndrome.  They’ll make a lot of money and then their income will drop.  They’ll replay this scenario over an over again.  Often, it’s the mindset in their way, with such thoughts as:  “will I have to work too hard to maintain this?”…”will people want too much from me?” …”will people expect more”…”will I lose my freedom?”

5) Fear of getting out of your comfort zone is closely related to the fear of success.  Even though, you might not really like where you are right now and wish you had more clients, had a bigger list, had more successful launches and made more money…you’re comfortable where you are.  You know what it feels like.  The thought of having all of those things, can often scare you.  That’s why people stay in relationships that they’re not happy in…or jobs that they don’t like.  It’s familiar.  Many people heard the expression “the devil you know is better than the devil you don’t know” growing up and that keeps them in the comfort zone.

So, every time those solopreneurs start having more success, they subconsciously sabotage themselves and go back to where they were.

6) Fear of not knowing how to do something.  To grow your business, it’s essential to put new procedures/products/programs etc into place.  For many people, the thought of doing something brand new is so overwhelming that they don’t know where to start.   They view this new thing as a “scary monster” and will do anything to avoid it.  They become overwhelmed, so, instead, will choose to stay a place they think is “safe”.  That fear stops you from taking the steps necessary to grow your business.

7) Fear you’re not good enough or don’t deserve it.   You don’t believe in yourself.  If you don’t believe in yourself, you can’t expect others to believe in you.  The lack of confidence will hold you back every time.

I’m not saying these fears are rational or will always make sense.  But, they’re buried often deep in your subconscious and the subconscious mind is over 1 million times more powerful than your logical mind.  If that weren’t the case, everyone would be thin and rich!

Which of those fears can you relate to?  If you’d like more help so those fears don’t undermine you anymore, join me in the Rapid Cash & Success System Teleseries.  Here’s the link to learn more :  http://katebeeders.com/rcss

Keep Brilliant,

Kate Beeders, Mindset & Marketing Expert