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“If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try.” – Seth Godin

Have you heard this leadership Quote?

Seth Godin is talking about doing the very thing that scares you, and there is a good reason behind it.

Too often we stop, when what we need to do is start.

We stop out of boredom perhaps, or we stop because it’s too hard. We stop because we can’t see the way forward, or we stop because someone (who doesn’t know any better) said we should.

But most often we stop out of fear – fear that we might look silly, fear that we’ll fail, a fear that someone might make a comment or tell us we’re not good at what we’re doing, and a fear that they’re right.

But what Seth Godin is saying is: Feel the fear and do it anyway, because on the other side of that fear is success.

If you stop every time you feared a negative comment or feared someone else would be better than you, or that you might fail, then you would never do anything of consequence. And here’s the thing – you WILL fail, I can almost guarantee it. I can say that because if you ever look at the lives of people who have made millions, if not billions of dollars, they have actually failed dozens of times.  Sometimes hundreds of times. But they worked through that failure and they mastered their fear to become a success.

To coin another Seth Godin term (Seth Godin fans will get this), they tamed their lizard-brain and they shipped it anyway.

What is it that you fear? Can you do it anyway and see what will happen? At worst you might learn something, at most you might bring about your dreams.

– David McLachlan

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