The Silent Saboteur: Don’t Let Fear Kill Momentum After Great Meeting

If we focus on mastering the process, we detach ourselves from the outcome. The truth is, as it pertains to business, we have very little control over whether people pay money in exchange for our products or services. We can influence it, but we can’t control it. And perhaps counterintuitively, I’ve learned that when I detach myself from the outcom

Let yourself feel the feeling, but now remind yourself that you are not alone. For example, how can your fear of failure be useful to the collective effort?

And feel it all. Feel the anticipation of the risk. Feel the pre-risk cringe. Then, during the risk, and after, take a deep breath and feel that too.

You’ll become familiar with those feelings and, believe it or not, you’ll start to enjoy them. Even the ones you think of as unpleasant. Because feeling is what tells you you’re alive.

You know that sen

What I didn’t realize at the time was that I had shifted gears. No longer bold and open to possibility, I was now playing defense. Instead of continuing in the mindset and flow that allowed me to have this opportunity in the first place, I was now struggling to make sure “I got this right.” And this meant my head shot firmly up my ass — full of wor