{"id":1652,"date":"2013-04-15T06:34:26","date_gmt":"2013-04-15T10:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/?p=1652"},"modified":"2013-04-15T06:34:26","modified_gmt":"2013-04-15T10:34:26","slug":"when-you-let-doubt-take-over-you-are-accepting-failure-as-an-option","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/2013\/04\/15\/when-you-let-doubt-take-over-you-are-accepting-failure-as-an-option\/","title":{"rendered":"When you let doubt take over, you are accepting failure as an option."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8220;When you let doubt take over, you are accepting failure as an option.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Doubt is a nasty, idea destroying emotion. It will do nothing but hurt your idea\/business. When you let doubt take over you are accepting that your idea can fail. Instead of taking the road that lets you believe in your idea, doubt takes you down a road that will find every flaw in your idea. It will then exploit those flaws, even to the point where you will give up on your dream.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Doubt is a natural emotion that you will have, so how do you overcome it?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Focus on the good. Focus on what makes your idea good. Focus on what will help your idea grow.<\/li>\n<li>Realize doubt is the failure to believe in yourself and your abilities. Any one can take an idea and turn it into a successful business. But if you don&#8217;t believe you can, then you won&#8217;t.<\/li>\n<li>What are you actually doubting? Your ability, acceptance of the idea, or&#8230;? Research, planning, and testing can crush doubt in a hurry.<\/li>\n<li>If you don&#8217;t try, then how will you know if your idea is actually good.<\/li>\n<li>Stop comparing yourself to others. You are not them and they are not you. Nor do they set your benchmarks or goals.<\/li>\n<li>If your doubt is based on what someone else said. You just let someone else control you and make decision for you.<\/li>\n<li>Identify people who support you and surround yourself with them. They will be able to help you by pushing you forward and keeping doubt at bay.<\/li>\n<li>Write down your goals and look at them everyday. This will help you keep your eye on what you want to achieve.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Take your doubt and kick it to the curb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doubt is a nasty, idea destroying emotion. It will do nothing but hurt your idea\/business. When you let doubt take over you are accepting that your idea can fail. Instead of taking the road that lets you believe in your idea, doubt takes you down a road that will find every flaw in your idea. It will then exploit those flaws, even to the point where you will give up on your dream. Doubt is a natural emotion that you will have, so how do you overcome it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-improvement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1652"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1683,"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1652\/revisions\/1683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}