{"id":39796,"date":"2023-10-20T15:04:31","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T15:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/startupsmart.test\/2023\/10\/20\/are-you-scared-your-startup-wont-succeed-startupsmart\/"},"modified":"2023-10-20T15:04:31","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T15:04:31","slug":"are-you-scared-your-startup-wont-succeed-startupsmart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/uncategorized\/are-you-scared-your-startup-wont-succeed-startupsmart\/","title":{"rendered":"Are you scared your startup won&#8217;t succeed? &#8211; StartupSmart"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"332\" itemprop=\"image\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Taking-the-startup-entrepreneurial-journey-rocky-road-wildnerness-unknown-640x332.jpg\" alt=\"Taking the startup entrepreneurial journey - rocky road wildnerness unknown\" title=\"Taking the startup entrepreneurial journey - rocky road wildnerness unknown\"\/><\/div>\n<p>Even the world\u2019s best entrepreneurs fight fear in their daily life, but how does it affect you, the choices you make and the risks you take?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery one of us carries fears in an invisible backpack,\u201d says change management expert Mila Kachovska in <a href=\"https:\/\/journal.thriveglobal.com\/are-you-living-a-fear-fueled-life-240187a47408#.36euvse1j\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Thrive<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Deep-seated fears that go unchecked can hold back many promising entrepreneurs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFear itself is an emotion that causes a change in the brain and leads to visible changes in human [behaviour],&#8221; Kachovska says.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the most common fears that prevent people from realising their full potential relate to the unknown, failure and rejection.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/advice\/growth\/young-entrepreneurs\/why-entrepreneur-jia-jing-exposed-himself-to-100-rejections\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Read more: Why entrepreneur\u00a0Jia Jing exposed himself to 100 rejections<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cFear stops many people to step forward into the unknown,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd when we are afraid that we will fail, we often do quite unproductive things. The worst is that we surrender in advance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So what fear is stopping you right now from chasing your wildest dreams?<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Because] the truth is that we have the choice to use fear as a driving force rather than a hindrance,\u201d says Kachovska.<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow StartupSmart on<\/em>\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/StartUpSmart\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a>,<\/em>\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StartupSmartnow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/startupsmart\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LinkedIn<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/au\/podcast\/starting-change-podcast\/id1154324497?mt=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">iTunes<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even the world\u2019s best entrepreneurs fight fear in their daily life, but how does it affect you, the choices you<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61288,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39796"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}