Creative Alchemy Produces Results

Fear of failure is a barrier that blocks creative thinking. When the fear of failure runs deep, it also has the power to confuse, and ultimately sabotage, strategic thinking. Fear of failure makes it easy to avoid taking responsibility for your creative progress. This fear can help you to stay within your comfort zones, despite the emotional anxiety, stress or unhappiness that it creates.

You can spend years wrestling with your fear of failure. The upside is that if you dive right in and investigate it further, you’ll find out how it operates. You can learn to recognise the triggers, so you can adjust you thinking and behaviour before it becomes all consuming.

A fear of failure can have a huge, negative impact on your time, energy, space and money. Better management of these four areas of your life can reduce fear of failure and release your creativity.

Time 

Fear of failure can have a detrimental affect on your ability to manage time. Fear of failure is a major cause of procrastination. The quality of your decisions may be reduced. Then your time and effort is wasted undoing the consequences of those decisions.

Energy

Fear of failure affects how well you manage my energy levels. Avoiding failure is a massive drain on your physical, emotional and mental energy levels. Trying to be perfect is debilitating. succumbing to perfectionism is a drain your creative spirit.

Space

Fear of failure reduces your ability to maintain the boundaries of your personal space. Mental confusion, due to fear of failure, blurs the boundaries between your personal life and working life, so a balance between work, rest and play is harder to achieve, or barely exists.

Money

Fear of failure is a tax on your finances. Time, energy and space are valuable resources. The combination of poorly managed time, low energy levels and a lack of boundaries can barely encourage or support a strong, long term financial position. Passing up opportunities for success, due to a fear of failure, can cost you money.

Thoughts precede behaviour. When you take control of your time, energy, space and money, your fear of failure is reduced, and often removed. Barriers to creativity disappear. Increased productivity is the result.