Did you know that there are nearly 28 million small businesses just in the in the United States alone?
They make up over a whopping 99.7%of all U.S businesses. Keeping those numbers in mind, ask yourself what’s stopping you from adding onto this glowing demographic?
If you’re passionate about starting up a business, like many people are, you probably find that fear keeps you from pursuing that dream.
You most definitely are not alone in that aspect.
According to an article in USA Today, nearly 1/3 of Americans claim that the idea of starting their own business is just as frightening as the idea of skydiving.
It’s understandable that fear plays a part in starting up a business, but that fear doesn’t have to cripple your dreams.
Let’s talk about how we can harness those fears and make them work for us, rather than against us!
Let’s use our fear and transform it into motivation!
You weren’t given your passions to simply place them on a back burner.
You can make your dreams a reality, despite your fear and uncertainty.
So, let’s jump right into it!
A great article Marie and Kalle! These are some of the exact thoughts going through my head when I decided to start my own online business. Having a safety cushion is a great idea and can help you proceed with confidence. The point around the right mindset completely resonated with me. There is a lot of hype on the internet around how you can quickly make 6 figure incomes! But the correct foundation of any business is a long term strategic vision rather than a short term goal. Thanks so much for sharing your insightful article which will hopefully inspire others on the wall to take the jump!
Hi Priya,
Yes, stepping into unknown is not easy, but with the right mindset and willingness to move forward the “Elephant” in the room will not be an elephant much longer.
Thank you for stopping by, and we are glad the you find the article useful.
All the best,
Kalle & Marie
I must first appreciate your effort and the relevance of this topic in today’s world. It is true that fear often times stops a lot of us from starting businesses we have conceived and even planned thoroughly because we don’t know if we would succeed. It has been an issue. Which is why your article on how to utilize this same fear for something better is an answer to several questions
Thank you Lucas for finding our article useful.
Yes, you are right, sometimes fear stopping you from pursuing your dream, and we believe it is normal. Stepping to unknown and outside our comfort zone is not easy. But, the good news you can use your fear as a motivation fuel.
All the best
Kalle & Marie
Hey. Fantastic article. I used to be a fearful person. I owned a business for many years, but ran it with fear. Once I walked away from that, I decided not to be scared anymore. Strating a business can be the scariest thing but it shouldn’t be seen like this. It should be seen as an exciting new project. But like you said, it can also be used as motivation. Used in this way, business will thrive. However, eventually, fear should be erradicated.
Noted Puneet,
Thank you for sharing your experience with us.
All the best
Kalle and Marie
What a great motivational business page. Your advice and effective “check list” of factors to consider in starting a business are really helpful to anybody looking to start their own business. You are right, there is a fear about not “having enough” money as we all have financial commitments, particularly if you have a family. Bills need to be paid. Your suggestion to start a business online is a great one, reducing the risk, providing you can dedicate enough time to running it, if you also have a full time job. I have to say, affiliate marketing sounds appealing. How long have you been doing it? How long did it take before you first saw success?
Hi Trevor,
Thank you for sharing your thought about the article.
We have come across affiliate marketing long time ago, but not until we found a business platform – Wealthy Affiliate, that thought us how to build successful affiliate marketing website. In just first month after we joint, we saw that something happened in our site. Somebody, actually read our blog, and number of engagement is growing from time to time.
We do really recommend you to take the 7 days free course, where you can discover the real potential of affiliate marketing, and to build strong foundation in online business.
All the best
Kalle & Marie
Great article for sharing, I fear and can not run or start a business because of have not enough money. Thanks for your guidance that make me more clear on the way to make money from home to add some extra income.
Especially the way to reduce the fear for starting up phase of running business and the way to overcome it.
– Sorath
Thank you for your comment Sean,
Sometimes, money is not “the” obstacle to open the business, there are a lot way to get your project funded.
All the best
Kalle & Marie
You have addressed a very important subject of FEAR. It can slow us down in our tracks in building our business. The lost of fears and how to overcome them are very helpful.
One of the best ways for me to overcome fear is to learn the best way to run my business. Then focus on just doing it having faith that it will work because I am following a successful formula. And that is the key. Having the right formula.
All the best to you.
Edwin
Hi Edwin,
Thank you for great comment, and share your experience with us.
We agree that one of the reason many business fail is because they do not have enough information and proper knowledge. Fear of not knowing your business will stop you starting your own business, but having no correct information, and proper knowledge about your business will make your business failed.
Great advice..
All the best,
Kalle & Marie
Some of us have been dealing with fear for a long time and it has been a very bad g rock on our path to achieving success and if we don’t learn to work with it there would be no way ahead and that is why I really appreciate this article and it has given me an idea on how to go around mine and do better
Hi Justin,
Thank your for sharing your thought.
We have been in business more than 18 years, one thing that we learn – the only thing to defeat fear is by walking through it. With proper information, research, mentor & community, and right mindset everyone can build their own business.
All the best,
Kalle & Marie
Wow! Honestly this is rather interesting to see here. I never would have thought that this is possible and I really value all you have shared here. Interestingly, being able to use success for motivation would always guarantee that we will be on our toes and always want to drive more to achieve it all. I value your post here
Hi Nath
Thank you for stopping by, and sharing your thought.
Yes, fear, actually, can be your motivation fuel to start the business.
All the best
Kalle & Marie
I really enjoyed reading your article. I related or at least with most these excuses that you mentioned as they are the most common limiters people place on themselves. Whether it is the fear of failure or the fact that they are out of time, most times people tell themselves these things and that limits so I like that you’ve that these very reasons be used as motivators.
Hi Beesean,
Glad that you visiting our site again, and give us your opinion regarding using fear as motivation fuel to start a business.
The other most common failure is lack of information. You have fear because you are stepping to unknown, and you do not have proper information. Please check our free course (click on Let Get started button) to find out more about affiliate marketing business.
All the best,
Kalle & Marie
Wow, you post is quite inspiring and maybe it is going to be that one push for me to start up my own business too and maybe I can make some good money as well. I see you have quite a statistics at the beginning of this one about how many people in the dates have started their own small businesses and are making it from their business too.
Thank you Suz
Your comment encourage and motivate us to keep working and placing more content to our website.
Thank you for such superb comment.
All the best
Kalle & Marie