By Junaid Tahir Fear is one of the major obstacles blocking your path to success. You tend to compromise with your circumstances and prefer...
By Junaid Tahir
Fear is one of the major obstacles blocking your path to success. You tend to compromise with your circumstances and prefer to maintain the status quo because you are afraid of making decisions. Lacking courage, you cannot move forward in your life with freedom.
On the other hand, successful people are those who take risks in life. They understand that taking risks will lead them to experience new horizons in their field, provide them with more vision and confidence, impart wisdom, and expose them to more challenges, ultimately helping them achieve their dreams. Such people continuously take new risks to achieve what they desire. Whenever there is a doubtful situation, they take the next small step to determine whether it is safe to proceed. If they fail, they take a step back and reassess their direction using their analytical skills.
So if you would like to live a successful life, you must defeat your fears. The reasons for being under the clouds of fear might be due to several doubts or unanswered questions in your mind. In this article, I have compiled and answered a few of such queries to boost your confidence level:
Question: Do I have enough information to make this decision? Answer: You may or may not have all the information right now. However, you can gather the necessary facts by consulting professionals, reading books, discussing with friends and well-wishers, posting your questions on online forums, studying the market, and seeking advice from experienced people. Once you have collected all the information, write it down on a piece of paper, listing the positive points on one side and the negative points on the other. Read them slowly with full focus. Once done, you are all set to make the decision.
Question: What if I fail? Answer: Consider the worst-case scenario, as this gives you inner strength and prepares you for it. However, if the worst-case scenario as per your thinking is a serious disaster, then reduce your risks by scaling down your goals, investment, energies, efforts, etc. Adjust some points from your original plan and reassess the worst case.
Question: Do I have the capability to do it? Answer: See if you can learn it through reading, training, counseling, or brainstorming. Believe in your inner powers. List the capabilities required for a specific task and start improving yourself in each area one by one. This might take some time, but once you learn and refine your skills, you will be able to achieve wonders in your domain.
Question: What will people say? Answer: People will comment anyway. It's your life, and you have all the authority to do what you want to do to achieve your goals. Don’t worry about social factors; instead, focus on your plans and decisions. Negative social factors will fade away one by one as you start producing results. Strengthen your thoughts, avoid unnecessary criticism, and you will be able to set new trends in your domain.
Question: Is anyone else afraid of the same thing? Answer: Yes, everyone is afraid of failure, but only bold people make bold moves to accomplish things. Remember, ordinary people watch things happen, whereas smart people make things happen.
Question: What if I am trapped in a tragic situation? Answer: To overcome a tragic, fearful situation, think of a genius person and imagine how they would have acted under the same condition. You will definitely get a new idea to try.
Junaid Tahir is a UAE based Telecommunications Manager. He is a passionate blogger and write articles on wisdom, stress management and leadership. His 75+ articles are available at his personal blog 
