When we talk about the fear of failure we are talking about a process that does NOT happen overnight, with constant practice we can train our mind to face those moments and generate confidence to face situations.
The fear of failure is usually because we are afraid of losing something like money or time and this makes us feel that we are not enough. Here we must understand that failure is part of the process.
We must change our perspective about failure. We must think that failure is a life lesson for our development and every time something goes outside of what we expected we must learn something new, we can put the following into practice: at the end of the day let's write down two or three things that we have learned even from those situations that did not go as we expected, this exercise will help us observe the learning and not focus on what did not go as we expected.
There is a phrase that says "done is better than perfect" this means that we should take action instead of waiting for everything to be perfect to take action, the fear of failure is often the fear of not doing it perfectly and the key is to start even when you are not ready. The important thing is to do something small that scares us but do it and little by little we will overcome that fear because if you expect to do something big maybe you will never do it.
Another important practice is to celebrate the times you try to do something, not just the results, let's not wait for that great achievement to feel successful, let's remember that each step is a victory and in practice, at the end of each day let's remember and take note of that small step that we have taken during the day even when the result was not what was expected or it was not a perfect result.
Another very important point is that we learn to challenge our negative thoughts since fear has as its main food those catastrophic or negative thoughts such as for example "if I fail my whole world falls apart" for: Another very important point is that we learn to challenge our negative thoughts since fear has as its main food those catastrophic or negative thoughts such as for example "if I fail my whole world falls apart" for this we can put into practice the following: when a negative thought arises we can ask ourselves the following questions: Is this true? What would be the worst thing that could happen? And if that happens, is it worse, what would I do? What lesson or what can I learn about this failure?
These are some very important points to learn to deal with the fear of failure, they are practical strategies to put into practice every day and thus develop our ability to achieve what fear is limiting us today. Do you dare to start today?
