FEAR the Ultimate Four-Letter Word | Michelle Spalding

As a soulful entrepreneur, Mom, business coach and friend, one of the most common statements I hear is “but I don’t know what to do.”

Often after a little coaching, with permission of course, we discover it’s not the technical part that holds them back, there are plenty of geeks among us to help out with something until they get profitable and can hire someone permanently.

So, what is it? What is it that gets in the way of us following our passion and making it profitable? What is it that gets in the way of achieving our dreams. It’s an awful little four-letter word.

Yes, THAT four-letter word! FEAR, FEAR, FEAR, okay I’ve said it!

Fear is just a feeling everyone has, no one is exempt. We’ve all got it, the key is not letting it stop you from achieving what you want in life. Not letting the fears rob you from your dreams.

Oh, the many things we fear.

We fear our “stuff” is not good enough, our website isn’t perfect, our speech isn’t just so, that we need to lose (insert # here) of pounds before we (insert activity here). We fear that people won’t like us, that they won’t pay the fees we want, they will hang up on us when we call to follow-up, they will reject our ideas or laugh at us and on and on and on. Truth be told, these…