Your Weekly Challenge:

REMINDER: You don’t have to do the challenge! See it as an idea on how to spend your week more productively.

face your fears. Make a list of things that you’re scared of doing, no matter how small(can be even just cleaning your room) and challenge yourself to take a step towards overcoming one of those fears this week. Keep the list at a place where you can see it so that you’ll be reminded of the challenge.

Your Weekly Inspirational Story:

“I became an entrepreneur in 2013, in the middle of divorce, with no money and no clients.

[…]

What every person is ultimately afraid of when it comes to starting a business is that the business will "fail" (or not "succeed") for one reason or another.

This makes defining failure and success a necessary first step in the equation, and one I believe most overlook or do not fully understand.

If you had asked me at the time what my business succeeding meant, I probably would have said something about making a lot of money, being able to support myself and my family while experiencing some of life's luxuries.

Success meant doing what I love while making at least as much money as I would have been making if I stayed employed, while being much happier.

My definition of failure, therefore, would have been not achieving these lofty goals.

But the reality is that I was not afraid of failing to achieve my grand vision of success.

What I was afraid of, my real fear, was not being able to support myself or my children and ending up homeless and penniless in the street.

I was afraid of the worst-case scenario.

Given my education, experience, work ethic, etc., however, this worst-case scenario was the least likely to happen.

I had no doubt that I was qualified and capable, but I was terrified of not surviving or making ends meet.

My fear was driving my doubt.

Once I realized that my fear was irrational because of how unlikely the worst-case scenario was to occur, my doubt miraculously went away.”

Source: https://www.entrepreneur.com/leadership/getting-over-the-fear-of-being-an-entrepreneur/427690

!!!- I advise you to write the answers down on paper, as they help you figure out stuff about yourself, which you might find useful later on!

Reflective-thinking question:

• Do you believe that like the writer, you have irrational fears that cause doubt as well?

Critical-thinking question:

• Do you agree with the writer’s opinion that every person’s ultimate fear is that it’ll “fail”? Why or why not?

Your Weekly ‘Food For Thought’ question

Are you doing thing you’re proud of?

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