Fear — A Stumbling Block to Achieve Success!

Shinty Thomas
2 min readMar 18, 2022

Every individual strives to be successful in this world. Success is the ultimate goal of each man in his life. Success is a subjective term for each individual. For some, it will be landing in their dream career, for others, it will be creating their own identity and it varies depending on the perception of people.

How to be successful? Or why success is limited, only to some people? There is no shortcut for success other than hard work. But how many of you are willing to take the road that is hard to achieve the goal. Is there anything that obstructs us to achieve our dreams?

Fear of failure is something that obstructs our journey to achieve the goal. Being panicked about the risks that we need to face to achieve our dream can obstruct us to move forward.

Fright is evil and negative emotion that spoils our mental and physical health. It makes us lazy and useless. Why should we allow fear to curtail our life in reaching its full potential? Every human being on this earth possesses a fear of death and is aware of the fact that death is certain. If we think about the fear of death all the time, then we will not live a life. Similarly, if we have fear of failure, then we will not make an effort itself for doing something. How to overcome that fear?

Each failure is an experience that helps us to reach our full potential. Every failure gives a lesson to be learned to reach our ultimate goal. Fear of failure makes us get stuck in life. Whenever we have some aim in our life, focus on our performance rather than results. It will help us to reduce our fear of failure and boost our energy to perform better.

Our attitude should be either to do or die. I believe in the saying a brave dies once and a coward dies many times. Always question ourselves, that whether we have the courage to try rather than expect a negative result. Courage is the only thing that makes us move forward amidst the uncertainties.

Do not think about the past failures but be mindful of the lessons learned. We are aware of the fact that the more we dream, the more we have to work hard and the risks will be more.

Let our courage wins over fear. If there is no fear, better performance, and the best result.

Originally published at http://soliloquymind.wordpress.com on March 18, 2022.

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Shinty Thomas
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Life thrills when dreams become real. Dreams are unrealistic & Passion makes them real. Creative Writer l Sustainable Business l Public Welfare