Author: Rhonda Hess
I know the feeling. One day you’re clipping along at a thrilling pace in your coaching business, in touch with your original passion and vision. Synchronicity abounds. Then suddenly, you feel paralyzed by doubt, unsure if this is the right business, the right time, the right decision. You ask: Do I have what it takes to be successful?
The answer is yes, yes, yes! You’ve just had a temporary loss of inspiration.
Here’s the first thing to know: you are on the right path. If you weren’t occasionally experiencing doubts, fears, tests and obstacles as you build your coaching business, I’d say you’re probably not on the right path.
While uncomfortable to feel, doubts and fears are allies. They are instinctive feelings coming from our body’s wisdom as an invitation to stop before we cross a threshold into the unknown. So we feel “frozen in fear”.
The Magician in All of Us
Fear is the gateway to the magician archetype - a part in all of us that seeks to know. A magician magically transforms spirit into matter — passion and vision into tangible success. The opportunity of fear and doubt is to expand our knowing.
Ask any creator or hero — scientists, inventors, artists, and entrepreneurs — they will all say that their greatest inspirations sprang out of a dark place. Wrestling with fears and doubts is a necessary step to achieve greatness.
So, how do you stare down doubt?
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