Why are we afraid of success?
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Success creates responsibility - and we are afraid of responsiblity.  It's easier to fail with an excuse than to succeed and bear the responsibility and work of success.  Only those who can handle that will succeed, all others will find a reason to fail.\n  so endeth the lesson.
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Its human nature to be fearful. Just like to be sad mad or angry if we didn't have emtions we would be really boring.
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It depends on the person and what goes on, but in most cases I would guess that people worry too much about making something good turn bad that they pass up on the whole good thing entirely.\n\nSometimes you just have to take the risks and hope things turn out alright in the end.
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It's the most ridiculous emotion that comes from fear of not being good enough.Be happy and celebrate who you are you can only be a first rate you and a second rate someone else.
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It take all sorts to make a world and what comes with water goes with the wind if you hadnt pain to get some thing so you never can find the value of that and more over how the success of parents could effect on a person if he has not the talent and abilites of his parents ?\nmaybe their wealth insure the welfare but it never could be a reason for some one to be a successful person the proof of pudding is in the eating .
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Because, with out the pain, there would be no joy. With out the hard times, there would be no good. You learn from pain, and it's the sad truth. Pain turns into so many things, wisdom, strength, knowledge. Learn from it, don't be scared of it.
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One of the major fears of starting a business is the risk involved. What would happen if you invest your money in a business, while potentially profitable, offers no certainty of success? What if the business fails?\n\nBusiness is risk. There's not one business that can provide a business owner with 100% success guarantee.\n\nIf you are hesitant or scared to start a business because of its perceived risk, I suggest you evaluate the level of risk of the business and determine whether you want to take on that risk. In the risk management field, this is called "risk appetite." The most successful entrepreneurs are those who are able to face the risks and overcome them.\n\nMake a list of the potential risks of the business. Understanding how the nature of your business affects risk is important in determining where to apply resources in order to help mitigate those risks. Recognizing areas of business risk will help you to optimize allocation of your resources.\n\nFor example, if you want to start a hair salon business, your risks may include (though not exhaustive):\n\n- insufficient capital\n- quality of location that you can get, which can affect your level of foot traffic and even the insurance you can get for the business\n- potential for fire given the flammable nature of most hair products\n- electrical safety due to the number of electrical appliances used in the business\n- top hair stylists may leave, bringing with them your clients \n\nThen indicate the level of probability that the risk will occur:\n\n- Is the likelihood that this risk will happen HIGH?\n- Is the likelihood that this risk will happen MEDIUM\n- Is the likelihood that this risk will happen LOW\n\nFinalize the list with the steps you can do to manage and minimize the risk.\n\nThis type of assessment can help you determine if the risks are well worth it -- and if you have the resources, skills and knowledge to actually overcome the risks.\n\nIf you are comfortable with the level of risk, especially when compared to the returns, then invest in the business. If not, then look for a safer business for you to invest or work with someone you think is better equipped to handle the risks of the business. Or maybe consider that entrepreneurship is not for you and you may be better suited for something else.
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Maybe it's not that they don't want to improve, but more simply, don't want to change. If things are running well (or sometimes even not so well), they may just want to keep things as is.\n\nWhich is counter to the entrepreneurial spirit that drove them to begin the business in the first place. But you have to understand that having taken a huge risk, if there is a small amount of success (or even lack of failure), it is such a big relief for some that maintaining the status quo becomes priority.\n\nIn my opinion, this is against the entrepreneurial spirit. But to each his own.
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Are you not scared of doing so
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I think they are afraid of rejection.
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Perhaps there are risks that you SHOULD fear.  I'm deathly afraid of putting my entire life's savings on the roulette table.  That's a good fear.  What you need to do is distinguish the fears that are protecting you from stupid mistakes from the ones that aren't helpful.  \n\nI think the best way to overcome fear of something is first to understand it better, and then to test yourself with it.  So, if you're afraid of foreign stocks, the first thing you need to do is read up on them, and then secondly take a small bit of money...something that won't make you nervous ...and invest it in something foreign but familiar (say Nokia, for example).  In the end, you might make a little, you might lose a little, but you probably won't have made a dramatic shift in your lifestyle over it.  You'll find that your worst fears weren't very realistic, and you can move on from that one.\n\nBut you should never overcome all your fears.  What if you were no longer afraid of jumping off 40 story buildings?  That wouldn't be a good thing.  You should always be afraid of investing in most penny stocks or commodities you don't have specialized knowledge about.  Be very afraid!  :)
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Because their defintion of "success" is wrong.  You don't have to have money, fancy things, cars to be successful.  I know many people with these things (and society would call tham successful), but they are miserable.  And on the otherhand, people that live day to day, and are happy.\n\nI consider success to be finding your self and living a moral life.  All the rest is just material things.
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the first one,coz we should take some daring risks anyhow we HAVE to die once in our life.so why not now.we should not be afraid of anything even death!\n\nby the way u r a creative and good dreamer
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We fear rejection simply because no matter how much we've accomplished in life, whatever our stature in life is, we all long to be accepted.\n\nIt is one of the fundamental truths.
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I have experienced it all, and with help you can overcome anything. I have been taught that all of our thoughts are just in our head because of the things we learned in the past.....\n“He who has conquered doubt and fear has conquered failure.” - As A Man Thinketh\n\nI have come to believe that the greatest diseases of mankind are doubt and fear. That is not to lessen the seriousness of some of our other afflictions, but doubt and fear rob more people of more life than all the other diseases of the world put together.\n\nWhy do I think they are diseases? Well they are acquired, we were not born with them. They are communicable - much of the time, they are passed from one person to the next. But clearer is the Merriam-Webster dictionary which says a disease is "a condition of the living animal...that impairs normal functioning." Sounds like fear and doubt to me.\n\nDoubt keeps us from going for the promotion that we certainly would have gotten had we gone for it; from asking for the big order that the next person got because they asked; from making positive and long lasting changes in our life because they "rock the boat."\n\nFear causes us to make weak and irrational decisions that sell out our future for the sake of today. It takes our happiness, our sleep, our very life.\n\nIn her outstanding book, Conquer Fear!, Lisa Jimenez lists "The Seven Truths" that can help us overcome fear:\n\n”Truth #1\nFear is the dominant problem in your life today.\n\nTruth #2\n\nFear is a gift that was instilled in you as a means of protection and a way to bring you closer to God.\n\nTruth #3\n\nWhen you run from or deny your fear, you leave the gift unopened.\n\nTruth #4\nWhen your fear of success or fear of failure is exposed, you break through their control over you.\n\nTruth #5\n\nYour belief system is the driving force behind your behaviors and your results.\n\nTruth #6\n\nYour everyday habits are broadcasting your belief system, your fear, and your unmet needs loud and clear.\n\nTruth #7\nChange your beliefs and you change your behaviors.\nChange your behaviors and you change your results.\nChange your results and you change your life.”\n\nAnd that is worth thinking about.\n\nGood luck and I know you can do it!
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Yes.\n\nIt's easy to tell that English isn't your first language. I think what you want to say is: "Are you sometimes afraid?" The answer is yes... but very infrequently.\n\nFear is a necessary emotion in life. (Hopefully, you don't have it all the time, though.) It makes us work harder to keep what we have. It also makes us realize that we don't want to lose something we have so we perform well to "keep" it.
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Hard Work!\n\nYou can't achieve success without it and lack of it will surely result in failure.