Are you an Entrepreneur who is starting a new business?
Do you struggle with a nagging sense of doubt that you can’t or won’t succeed?
You know you have the knowledge; you know you have the experience; you know you have the ability; however, on some level you still question your abilities and worry about your potential to succeed in a noisy and busy business world.
Although these doubts can be confused with low self-esteem, they are very different in the way they influence the results.
Doubt is a normal feeling and it tends to appear when you are faced with something new or different. Even those who have been in business long enough to have earned a reputation for success may have doubts about their ability to take their businesses to the next level of success.
Self-esteem comes from knowing and owning your abilities. It comes from relentlessly using your positive self-talk to brand yourself as a person you can believe in to achieve the outcome you want.
The world of entrepreneurship is all about promotion. It doesn’t matter how good you are, and if you’re good at what you do, if you’re a well-kept secret.
Marketing yourself and your services requires security and trust, and all of that is related to your internal dialogue.
In the world of entrepreneurship, you have to be ready and willing to put time and effort into your ideas. You have to be willing to go out into the world and market yourself, market your product and market your services.
However, doubt can overwhelm all of that if you focus on your past failures and compare yourself to other people doing the same thing and give in to those fears. This is when impostor syndrome feelings can kick in and take over.
One way to combat self-doubt and let your self-esteem take over is to take action. That’s the only way you’ll get the experience you need to reach the goals you’ve set for yourself. You will gain confidence as you work your way through smaller goals to achieve larger ones and this will boost your self-esteem and push self-doubt into the background.
Relying on your self-esteem to brush aside your doubts when it threatens to cripple you and ruin your plans for the future is as simple as drawing on past successes and accomplishments, along with your mental acumen to get things done. After all, you have been successful with many things in the past and you can do it again.
That’s why tracking success is vital and necessary to drive achievement. Even remembering the successes you’ve had in other areas of your life can be helpful as it reminds you of the habits of mindset and the steps you had to take to get the results you achieved.
If you can transfer this process to what you need to do now, you have a plan at your fingertips that can guide your next steps to success.
Commit to learning, get out of your head and invest in some sort of training or mentorship.
By silencing self-doubt, you can feel that when starting a new business venture you can rest by taking continuous and focused action; use past success as a guide and validation model; and invest in ongoing learning and support. These simple actions can guide you on the path to getting the results you want.
And guess what else he’ll do?
It will add up and boost your self esteem.