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I Want to Start a Business but I'm a Coward.

How to rid fear: I Want to Start a Business but I'm a Coward.

What If Not Starting Is the Risky One?.

Are you looking for help with “how to rid fear”? Then this page is a good place to start. I Want to Start a Business but I'm a Coward: What If Not Starting Is the Risky One? 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.

How to rid fear: a passage from the book.

Think about what that means for you specifically. If your business idea sits in the field you already work in, the Danish and Portuguese findings suggest that your experience doesn't evaporate when the business does, and that the road back into paid work may be shorter than you fear. If your idea takes you into a field you know nothing about, the road back is likely to be longer, because the evidence points to switching sectors, not to failing, as the costly part. Neither of those is a reason to start or not to start. Both are things you can know about your own situation tonight. So check yours.

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

So Aquinas gives you two mistakes, not one. There is the person who runs from what they should face, and the person who charges at what they should avoid. The coward and the reckless founder are standing on opposite sides of the same target, and both have missed it.

From chapter 7: When the coward is right

That is how the book looks at “how to rid fear”: 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 “how to rid fear”.

  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

How to rid fear: where to read it.

Finally, you can get I Want to Start a Business but I'm a Coward: What If Not Starting Is the Risky One? 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.