Overcoming fear of starting a business: Find Out Which Fears Are Telling the Truth.

I'll admit what I think happens next for a lot of people, because it's worth preparing for. The first reaction to a real legal sentence is often relief, and the second is suspicion. It seems too simple, so there must be a catch somewhere. Sometimes there is, and the sections below are full of catches. But a real sentence you can argue with beats an imaginary one you keep obeying, and I suspect you will find that most of the catches are smaller than the fear they replace.

From chapter 5: The worst case is written in a law you have never read

In 1824, a clerk named John Dickens went to the Marshalsea, a debtors' prison in London. His son was twelve. Between his father's arrest and the prison, the boy ran errands and carried messages for him. Years later, Dickens told his friend and biographer, John Forster, that the last words his father said to him before he was taken to the Marshalsea were "to the effect that the sun was set upon him forever." "I really believed at the time," Dickens told Forster, "that they had broken my heart."

From chapter 5: The worst case is written in a law you have never read

That is how the book looks at “overcoming fear of starting a business”: 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.

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 “overcoming fear of starting a business”.

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

Finally, you can get Find Out Which Fears Are Telling the Truth: Eleven Fears About Starting a Business, Taken One at a Time 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.

In addition, each title below highlights a different idea from the same book.

• Starting a Business While Afraid: I Want to Start a Business but I'm a Coward. Find Out Which Fears Are Telling the Truth.
• Starting a Business While Afraid: Find Out Which Fears Are Telling the Truth
• Beginning While Afraid: I Want to Start a Business but I'm a Coward
• Beginning While Afraid: Find Out Which Fears Are Telling the Truth
• When the Coward Is Right: I Want to Start a Business, and Eleven Fears to Check First
• When the Coward Is Right: Find Out Which Fears Are Telling the Truth
• The Safer Road: I Want to Start a Business but I'm a Coward
• Do Not Calm Down: I Want to Start a Business but I'm a Coward
• The Price of the Safe Choice: I Want to Start a Business but I'm a Coward
• Courage Does Not Delete the Fear: I Want to Start a Business but I'm a Coward

See all 45 titles. Go to the book page.