I decided last week to dedicate 100% of my extracurricular time and effort into a new project. I don’t want to reveal what my new project is…. yet….suffice to say its a type of investment that i’m hoping will help me bring in some extra cash.
Before I even started this process, I felt a whole lot of anxiety about whether or not I could even do this. Would it be successful? Would I get any return on my initial investment? Am I just wasting my time? So many questions and doubts are going through my head right now, to the point that I feel like they are completely stymieing my productivity.
What do I do?
I shot out a few emails to people that had achieved success from similar investments, and the overwhelming response was to just go out and do it.
Nearly every piece of feedback I received more or less had this message - a person can sit around wondering “what ifs” forever; but he/she is never going to know 100% what’s going to happen unless he/she goes out and tries.
This may seem like good ol’ fashioned common sense to a lot of folks out there, but a common theme in all of my email correspondence was that self-doubt is something that nags most people before they start a new project or invest in a new idea.
But I know now that my greatest fear shouldn’t be the fear of failure, rather it should be the fear or never trying.
Thanks to everyone who responded to my incessant questions and ramblings. I guess I just needed a kick in the pants to get started.
Now I’ve decided to follow everybody’s sagely advice and just try it out and see how things go. I’ll keep everyone posted on my progress! Wish me luck!
A quick question to the 3-4 readers out there that follow my blog…. have you ever faced intense self doubt when starting up a new project? How did you overcome this? Any practical solutions to resolve your concerns?
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