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Half a year ago, I have started my personal development process in order to change myself. My mission was clear: change industries, make myself employable and marketable, make new friends, gain ultimate self-confidence, and on top of these, transform my body by running to be able to complete a half marathon.
Al though, the road was not as smooth as I thought or expected, many things did not go as planned, the result was more than I could ever dream of.
Embracing Fear and Failure
Within half a year I achieved what looks rather impossible at first sight. Changed the career, increased the growth rate of a YouTube channel multiple times, found a new job, ran a half marathon, and, most importantly, put my bet on myself. The secret?
An audacity not to be disabled or hampered by any force in any way, shape or form.
For that reason, the most prominent fear that accompanied me for several years has been the fear of failure in public. Failure, doing something else different from what I planned and seeing all the hard work, sacrifice, sweat, and tears go down the drain terrified me most.
These fears held me back for far too long and so I began to ‘reason’ that I was not intelligent enough, beautiful enough or gifted enough to accomplish…