I'm Jody Moore and this is Better Than Happy on Trey Talk, Fear of Success.

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Hello, entrepreneur friends. Welcome to Entrey Talk.

We're going to talk about your business, talk about where your head might be at, specifically with regards to your business.

And this week, I want to talk about this odd thing that happens for many of us with regards to all kinds of goals, but it certainly shows up in our businesses a lot, which is fear of success.

Now, I remember, I don't know, way back in the day, when I used to hear people talk about that they were afraid of being successful.

And I was like, what? What are you talking about? Nobody's afraid of succeeding. We're afraid of failing, right?

So I couldn't wrap my head around it. I just, I couldn't even relate to it until I've heard more and more people get coached on it and they don't always use those words.

They don't always say they're afraid of success. They use a lot of other ways to describe it, which I over time have decided, Oh, I think that's what people are actually afraid of.

I don't think that we're afraid of winning, per se.

I don't think that we're afraid of achieving our goal, even though that's what people call it. I think there are basically for main other things that we are afraid of.

And I want to highlight them today because if you can relate to any of these, then first of all, I want you to just know that you're not alone.

But second of all, we're going to talk through each one. And I'm going to talk to you about why it's really just nonsense. What this is, this fear of success that we have is just the brain's way of first of all, hiding, not exposing you to any potential.

Danger or judgment or disappointment or any kind of negative emotion, if you will. And your brain is designed to try to prevent you from feeling negative emotion.

Okay. So that's the first thing that's happening. The second thing is that brain doesn't want to work any harder than necessary that is basically keeping you alive.

So anything beyond survival, the brain's like, why are we bothering with any of this? Okay. So I view this fear of success or these four things as just the brains way of trying to get creative and sell you on not doing any of this, not building your business.

At least certainly not putting in your best effort, at least hiding a little bit, if not a lot or not trying it all.

That is what your brain wants. Your brain doesn't want you to go try this. Your brain doesn't want you to give it your all because it's afraid of danger and because it doesn't want to work hard.

But you can manage that part of your brain and override that part of your brain if you understand what's really going on. Okay. So let's dive in.

The first thing that I hear people say that I categorize the spirit of success is that they're worried they won't be able to live up to whatever it is that they think successful people are.

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