What is holding you back?

[sgoodknight]

What is holding you back from accomplishing everything you've ever hoped possible?

Fear?  Anxiety?  Life in general?  What ever is currently holding you back from getting on your Path for freedom you need to release it.  You need to place your focus on what your accomplishments will bring to you and your family.

A little over 4 years ago I was holding myself back from accomplishing greater things in my business.  What was holding me back though was a fear of success, of leadership.  I didn't know how to be a leader and I surely didn't know how to be successful.  I knew that I wanted to be successful, who doesn't.  However, what that success brings with it is where the fear came from.

Continue to work on yourself daily and you will soon grow and it will help to open up your future for many great things.

[jennifermay]

Awesome words Susan!!! Thanks for sharing!!! :)

[DogsMom]

I definitely have a fear of success.  I was raised in an era where the women were encouraged to do well but not to make a big showing of it.  Never do better than your man, and especially do not make your father feel you are doing better than him. Sons should get ahead, daughters should do as they are told.

I also feel my skills are outdated and not as developed as I desire them to be. I undervalue what I am able to do.  Logically thinking I know I have some wonderful valuable people and workplace skills, but I can't imagine someone would want me on their team. As a drone worker, yes, but not as an equal.  OK- LOW self esteem. That is holding me back.

I can't say I have a fear of failure, since I believe that is how one learns, but I have a fear of being ridiculed for failure - those I told you so's.
I need to learn to say back "at least I tried."

[madwifa]

 great post and can help a lot of mamas . I find beauty can come from so many things when a woman feels good about her self her inner beauty comes out. I hope this post will help someone.

[fitmama13]

Thank you for these words. Like you said even though you really want to be successful some type of fear - for me "failure" is holding me back. I'm pushing myself past that now. 

[sophiesmom07]

Thank you for this post!  The main things holding me back are self esteem issues and horrible anxiety.  I have always had anxiety, even as a kid.  I remember feeling that dreaded heart pounding and faint feeling when it was my turn down the line. As an adult it got worst. It has gotten way better since becoming a sahm, but it is a deterent to  going back to work and doing bigger things.  I hope I can somehow beat this so that I can accomplish all that I want to in the future. 

[DogsMom]

Recently I read a book on this subject - by that title - by Sam Horn.   Was helpful.

[CoachCarly]

It's important to remember when dealing with fears and anxiety that they don't define you and you can overcome them. Often these fears were planted in our heads and we make them real. But they are all just lies we keep telling ourselves over and over again.

I find it helpful to write out your fears and look at them once they're out of your head. More often than not, you don't really believe them to be true and are able to deflate them.