Our fear of failure, on the surface, may look like one thing, but is likely something else altogether. Typically we will look at a fear of failure as not being able to meet our career or relationship goals - goals set by ourselves, by our higher-ups, by our company, by our shareholders, family, customers, etc. I call these surface failures, as they are all an illusion comprised of your own judgments and the judgments of others - be they real or perceived.
I believe that the much greater and more powerful fear of failure comes from our fear that if we were to truly stand in our power and choose to walk the path of our passion and share our gifts with the world, that we would somehow come up lacking. That we would not quite be enough, that we wouldn't measure up; although we rarely consider whose measuring stick we're so concerned about. For example, stepping out of the comfort of the corporate world and jumping head first into walking into my power to share my gifts with the world has been nothing short of terrifying.
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