The other day I wrote about this grand idea I had of shooting for free. I slept on it and came to my senses. I’m realizing that I’m just really scared of success. I know, it sounds crazy. I don’t have a fear of failing, I have a fear of succeeding. I can effortlessly come up with great ideas. And when I do, I start a process of starting them with an intense passion that includes, countless sleepless nights, communicating with few people and definitely not going out. Then somewhere along in the process, I become a combination of unmotivated, tired, bored.

Clearly, I have to change this because it’s really stopping me from doing some amazing things that are floating around in my head.

So, here’s how I plan on overcoming this fear of succeeding and plan on completing things.

1. Pick smaller projects or divide larger projects into smaller pieces. I’m a big researcher and when I think of something, I’ll research everything that I can foresee for the next few years. While vision is important, I immediately become overwhelmed.

2. Be ok with Beta and improving. I’m  a perfectionist at heart. It takes me forever to decide on everything from what movie to watch, the perfect birthday card or the right website design. It’s the research problem that I have. But from now on, I’m going to decide on things business related a bit quicker. There will always be room for improvement. However, if I sit around waiting on everything to be just right, I’ll get nowhere…slowly.

3. Timelines. I’ll admit, I’ve tried this before and I’m really not that great with timelines. However, in breaking up these larger projects and to force myself to stop dwelling on one aspect, it’s going to be key. I just don’t see any way that I can do it. In the past I used Basecamp, but I’ve been reading (only for 20 minutes, I promise) some good things about Many Moon, so I think I will give them a shot this time. I’ll let you know how that goes.

4. Find a good support system. When I first started out being an entrepreneur, I was always surrounded by people other entrepreneurs. We’d sit in coffee shops and work and bounce ideas around, we’d contemplate quitting our full-time jobs and we’d collaborate on projects together. I’ve really been missing this dynamic so I’m going to find it. (I’ll only look and plant seeds for a day, max.)

Anyone else experience anything like this? Any other tips?

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