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Afraid of failing: Cover of Starting a Business While Afraid: I Want to Start a Business but I'm a Coward. Find Out Which Fears Are Telling the Truth. by Diego Segura
I Want to Start a Business but I'm a Coward.

Afraid of failing: Starting a Business While Afraid.

I Want to Start a Business but I'm a Coward. Find Out Which Fears Are Telling the Truth..

Are you looking for help with “afraid of failing”? Then this page is a good place to start. Starting a Business While Afraid: I Want to Start a Business but I'm a Coward. Find Out Which Fears Are Telling the Truth. is one of the titles of I Want to Start a Business but I'm a Coward, a book by Diego Segura. First, read a short passage from it. After that, try the exercise below, and finally choose where to read or listen.

Afraid of failing: a passage from the book.

Hold that picture for a moment: an engineer in his forties, working nights among dumplings because two businesses have died. Is that the film you run in your head when you imagine your own business failing?

From chapter 6: What happened to the people it happened to

It goes like this. "Surely the sensible thing is to wait until I feel ready. When the fear fades, I'll know it's the right time. Starting while I'm this afraid would be reckless."

From chapter 11: Beginning while afraid

That is how the book looks at “afraid of failing”: one idea at a time, with a step you can take right away. Of course, this is only one idea from the book. So, if this passage speaks to you, the full chapter goes further, and it ends with an exercise you can do the same evening.

Check your fear in one minute.

Pick the fear that stops you, then answer three quick questions. The result tells you whether this fear is giving you facts or just noise.

The fear that stops me
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If it happened, could you recover within two years?
Could you test it this month without spending much?

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What else is inside I Want to Start a Business but I'm a Coward.

In short, the book has 11 chapters, and each one ends with a practical exercise. Therefore, you can read it in order, or you can go straight to the part about “afraid of failing”.

  1. The safer road
  2. Afraid people see different odds
  3. Unknown is not unlikely
  4. Nobody checked your fear's record
  5. The worst case is written in a law you have never read
  6. What happened to the people it happened to
  7. When the coward is right
  8. Do not calm down
  9. The price of the safe choice
  10. Courage does not delete the fear
  11. Beginning while afraid

Afraid of failing: where to read it.

Finally, you can get Starting a Business While Afraid: I Want to Start a Business but I'm a Coward. Find Out Which Fears Are Telling the Truth. in the stores below. Because every title of this book shares the same text, you can simply pick the one you like best. Also, the book is available in 19 languages.