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Congratulations! You’ve made a large step in thinking about or already establishing your business endeavour. If you now own a business, you completed the most difficult task for most, action. If you’re still on the fence the best advice is to take action.

New Is Scary

It’s more common than you think to be terrified of trying new things. We tend to think irrationally that things will automatically fail or not progress as intended. Funny things is, everything is so new when you are running a new business. Throughout the process, you will not know everything. Commonly, business owners worry about not creating enough value for their customers or not attracting enough customers to buy their valuable service or product. We often tell ourselves that our fear and self-doubt is more valuable than a positively laid out action plan. Acknowledge whenever the fear and self-doubt creep in, it’s not telling you anything useful, and move forward anyway. Overthinking is part of fear, it’s only charged up when you give it power.

Do you think you’re the only one going through these feelings? Good news, everyone struggles with fear, even if they don’t let on. The fear of putting yourself out there or launching something new doesn’t entirely go away. The main reason why people are able to manage their overthinking self-doubt and still achieve success is because when they experience it, they acknowledge it to keep the train moving.

You’re Doing Great!

You know what? Fear can be a sign that you’re on the right track to success, as long as you work to overcome it. Over thinking your abilities and work is a sign that you are working on something important. You’re most likely over thinking because you think a more perfect human other than yourself is capable. Perfect humans don’t exist and no one will do whatever you are working on like you! Go, do your thing.

There isn’t a secret to conquering self-doubt, over thinking, or fear of failure. There isn’t a huge step process because we all struggle but we must learn how to manage those thoughts as an entrepreneur

Action!

Magic happens when we take action. Embrace your actions over the perceived outcome. Practice by starting small. They won’t be perfect but just keep going. Celebrate your progress and make action a habit. Go out there and be uniquely you!

Simply Sociable is a boutique administrative firm that understands the importance of leveraging the internet and technology. Simply Sociable specializes in helping small businesses and entrepreneurs to work on their business instead of in it. They provide administrative consultations and virtual administrative assistants to get things done. Nadia Alcide is the founder and a University of Florida alumni.