Heyo! Welcome to the $100 MBA Show, the business podcast that gets you going and gets you doing in your business with our daily 10 minute business lessons for the real world. I'm your host, your coach, your teacher, Omar Zen Home. I'm also the co-founder of the $100 MBA, a

complete business training and community online. And today's episode is a

Q&A Wednesday episode. On our Q&A Wednesday episodes I answer a question

from one of you, one of our listeners.

If you have a question you want to ask, just email me over at omar at 100MBA.

Today's question is from Brad. And Brad asks, I've always played it safe because I'm afraid to fail.

I've only applied for jobs I'm overqualified for and took on projects I feel fully confident about.

How do I get ready to take that leap into business and entrepreneurship?

Good, good, good question, Brad.

And I'm going to help you, and everybody who's listening has this question in their head right now.

Fear of failure is very common and very natural.

Just part of our instincts as human beings to protect ourselves.

The problem is that that fear of failure is what's holding you back from actually succeeding,

from actually going after the things you want in life like starting a business and I'm happy

Brad that you have the self-awareness to recognize that this is your challenge and

we're going to overcome this challenge together I'm going to show you how and

I'm going to use some how and I'm going to use some fun, easy things to do to get used to this feeling of failure,

accepting it so you can take that mental and practical leap into entrepreneurship.

So let's get into it.

Let's get down to business.

So Brad asks here on Q&A Wednesday today,

how could he stop playing it safe and prepare himself

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