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The Amazon Files, hosted by Kristin Ostrander, Amazon business strategist and one of the founders of Mommy Income, hits the airwaves every Tuesday with the real truth about selling on Amazon. This show isn’t about sugar-coated reality. It’s real truth - the good, the bad and the ugly - shared with practical action steps and strategies to help both new and experienced sellers tackle the world’s largest retail sales platform.

Apr 30, 2018

Fear of spiders. Fear of heights. Fear of small spaces. These are a few of the many fears that people have. While many entrepreneurs have a fear of failure, there are also those who have a fear of success. As fear manifests in different ways, knowing how to overcome this hurdle benefits you and your business more than you may realize.

In today’s episode, we’re going to share the manifestations of the one thing that’s preventing your Amazon business from growing -- fear. Since learning to overcome fear is a skill, we’re breaking down this struggle no one talks about and sharing the plan of attack on how to overcome one fear at a time to get it out of the way of your success to get you moving forward.

 

“Fear can be debilitating, or you can turn it to fuel.“ - Kristin Ostrander

 

This week on The Amazon Files:

  • How fear affects your performance and business growth
  • The relationship between analysis paralysis and fear
  • Different types of fear that keep entrepreneurs stuck
  • Various ways of expressing fear
  • The significance of having accountability when in the process of overcoming fear
  • How fear produces procrastination
  • Why people experience fear
  • How to get over fear by trusting the facts
  • Why knowing other people’s perspective is helpful
  • The benefits of writing down the worst-case scenario
  • The consequences of doing nothing
  • What is the antidote for fear

 

How to Overcome Fear:

  • Acknowledge your fear. Identify what and how you’re feeling.
  • Start paying attention to how you speak to yourself.
  • Look at the process you went through, trust the process, and take a step forward.
  • Trust the facts and not the feelings.
  • Get perspective from somebody else.
  • Explore all your options.
  • Create a learning growth plan.

 

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Grow Your Amazon Business!

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