Hello everybody and welcome to the mindful kind.

I'm your host, Rachel Cable, and I'm here to share insights into my mindfulness journey

and inspire you to create your own.

Each week, this podcast will bring fresh and exciting news about mindfulness,

from my personal experiences to useful tools and different

mindful techniques.

Welcome to episode 37 of the Mindful Kind podcast.

Thank you so much for tuning in today and listening to

my thoughts about mindfulness and fear of success. One of my lovely listeners sent me a message on

Facebook to ask about how to use mindfulness to move forward when you're afraid of succeeding.

And I think this is such an interesting question because I often hear people talking about being afraid of succeeding. And I think this is such an interesting question

because I often hear people talking about being afraid of failing,

but sometimes fear of success can be just as challenging, if not more.

So first of all, let's take a look at fear of failure versus fear of success.

Both of these fears I've had to face regularly, especially

with my business, or businesses actually, because I just launched a whole new one this week.

So there's a really interesting thing which can happen when we challenge ourselves. With my new

business launch, there were a couple of fears which kept

arising. Some are based around fear of failure and they're pretty easy to identify. Thoughts like,

what if my new website crashes on the first day? Or the links don't work or there's a huge mistake.

Or thoughts like, what if no one cares about it or doesn't like it?

These are pretty powerful fears and they can show up in so many aspects of life

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