Fear of Success is Fear of Failure

Nathan's School of Thought

Fear of success is not actually a real thing.

Now I know somebody's going to argue with me: "no, I've had fear of success." Well, what you've actually had is fear of failure, but it goes something like this. A lot of times when somebody says they have fear of success, what they have is fear of being found out. So they say, "if I give a speech at this convention, or I do this presentation, or I sell this thing, or if I do this podcast, what if somebody finds out I was actually wrong about a little bit of that? What if I get a fact wrong, or what if it turns out that they know more about it than I do, and then they tell everybody about it and then everybody thinks I'm an idiot?"
Fearing success is not helpful to you. Believing things that are not true about yourself is not helpful to you.

Now, sometimes you need some help to find and fix these harmful beliefs or patterns. That's what I do for a living. Maybe you and I should talk sometime. Go to my website at https://natewalkercoaching.com, click on the contact link, and tell me how I can help you. We'll have a conversation, and I don't charge for those. I talk to people all day long. I know how to help you figure out what those things are that are really stopping you, and it's not really fear of success.

Don't let others' judgment of you, or your fear about your own lack of ability or lack of preparation, or your fear of the unknown, stop you. They will if you allow it. But if you learn how to get past it, your life will never, ever, be the same. As George Eliot so wisely put it: "It's never too late to be who you might have been."
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