Courage in the Face of the Unknown

In my more than two decades of experience launching and running businesses, I have come to recognize that fear is a HUGE obstacle most people never get around to overcoming. Recently, I wrote my first book,The F Word, a content-packed handbook I wrote to help people recognize and get over their fears.

In the book, I take some time to identify the four major types of fears and how to recognize them in your own life. I walk readers through eight intensive exercises where we talk about our hopes and dreams, compare them to our realities then start weeding out the fears that are stifling our growth.

At the end of this week, The F Word will be available for you to download FOR FREE to preview the book before it goes live on Amazon. I encourage you to download this crucial playbook and also to download the supplemental workbook, which will guide you through an even deeper exploration of your fear triggers.

If you’re going to succeed in business, in relationships or in life, you need to conquer fear once and for all. I will teach you the tricks, strategies and techniques I’ve used to smother fear and live a fantastically adventurous life.

Tuesday, I talked about Fear of Success on The Magic of Real Estate blog. Yesterday, I dealt with the Fear of Failure. Today, let’s talk about number three in our quartet of major fears – Fear of the Unknown.

Fear of the unknown

Everyone deals with a fear of the unknown at one time or another. It starts with shadows on the wall and monsters in the closets when we’re young and still persists today in the form of hesitance to enter business opportunities. Fear of failure is a variation of fear of the unknown. The entire mystique of the fear of failure is that you don’t know if you will succeed or fail. It’s exciting stuff (or nerve-wracking, depending on your perspective).

I still deal with my own fears of the unknown on a regular basis. For instance, when I launched GICDealFinders.com, my goal was to teach 1,000 people about real estate investment. Within a few weeks of our launch, people who were interested in learning the real estate business started asking me about advanced training opportunities. I delayed putting together a training product.

I didn’t delay because I needed so much lead time. I delayed because I wasn’t sure about the outcome. What if people don’t sign up for the training? As successful as I am, when I encounter things I’ve never done before, I still pause to entertain those destructive thoughts of potential failure… for just a minute or two.

There is a pervasive mythos that what you don’t know can hurt you. That’s true, but we need to also remember that in the grand scheme of things, we actually know very little. And that’s okay.

So learn as much as you can then move forward with your plan. The best way to learn real estate investing or any business is just to get in there and do it.