{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"The honest truth about fear in business","description":"I felt sick the day after I offered Chris, my new videographer, a role. You might be surprised to read this today and worried that Chris might find out. Don\u2019t worry - he knows! I told him and we filmed a video about it. The feelings surprised me. I\u2019ve hired before. I\u2019ve had teams before. I\u2019ve made leaps before. But this time it felt different. I felt resourced. I felt certain. I felt ready. So why the anxiety? Anxiety often arises when our brain\u2019s fear circuitry - particularly the amygdala - triggers a stress response that doesn\u2019t quite match the situation. It was useful from an evolutionary standpoint, helping humans to anticipate danger. But now, it can misfire, leading to things like catastrophising a situation (I\u2019m going to go bankrupt!), focusing on the threat and not the reality (all my sales with dry up), feelings of being \u2018beyond our comfort zone\u2019 (I\u2019m not ready for this, it\u2019s too much!). Do any of those sound familiar? Other, more subtle ones include: I\u2019m not good enough \/ cut out to do this Someone is going to find me out I\u2019m not doing enough! Something bad is about to happen Other people seem to find this easier! I need to learn one more thing, then I\u2019ll be ready I recognise all of those. In fact, I\u2019ll let you in on a secret. I started my masters in Psychology because I wanted to know what made a great entrepreneur. I didn\u2019t know if I had what it took to \u2018make it\u2019, to go all the way. I wanted to find the perfect formula for entrepreneurship and model it. Ha. I\u2019ll tell you how that goes. For now, I\u2019ll just keep showing up shall I? The hard thing about entrepreneurship is that we have to live in this zone of discomfort to grow. We\u2019re constantly in the leap between safe havens. And just when we\u2019ve mastered one thing, we have to master another, and another. This constant cycle of growth is very taxing on our nervous systems, on the very human part of ourselves, and this tax shows up as fear, anxiety, burnout, exhaustion, procrastination. If we put it off, we can\u2019t fail right? We sit with the pain of avoidance, just to save ourselves from the pain of change. For this reason, being successful as an entrepreneur isn\u2019t really about the leap itself. It\u2019s actually about the gap in between one version of ourselves and the next. It\u2019s about how we resource ourselves in that gap. It\u2019s about how we react to the feelings of discomfort, which only show up in the gap. It\u2019s about how we choose to act as we land on the other side of the gap. I find that when I make \u2018the leap\u2019, I want to stay the same. I want to have the same feelings, the same comforts, the same thoughts. I want to prioritise the same things, do the same activities, continue with the same behaviours. But I can\u2019t. The net sum of those things is the person on the other side of the gap. To continue is to go back. To change is to stick the landing. And this is what we\u2019re exploring in today\u2019s episode. Ready to dive in? If you\u2019re in the middle of a leap - or find yourself avoiding one - this episode will help you to see where you are in the process, discover what it\u2019s going to take to stick the landing, and focus on the person you need to become, not the fear holding you back! - \ud83d\udd17 Want to go deeper? Join the Be The Person membership for the mindset and healing work required to make this leap: https:\/\/betheperson.co.uk\/membership\/ ","author_name":"The Lisa Bean Podcast","author_url":"http:\/\/lisabean.libsyn.com\/website","html":"