Summary: <a href="http://feeds.feedblitz.com/-/54463568/0/ibmaudioblogs.mp3">http://feeds.feedblitz.com/-/54463568/0/ibmaudioblogs.mp3</a><br> <a href="http://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/54464605/0/ibmaudioblogs~Fears-That-Will-Destroy-your-Internet-Business-and-How-to-Banish-Each/scared" rel="attachment wp-att-3353"></a><br> There is a dirty little secret about me and the internet business mastery blog. If you've been around awhile, you might have noticed it.<br> After 8 years in the content creation business I was still afraid to write this post. Not just a post about fear, but ANY blog post!<br> The fears I'm going to talk about have plagued me the entire time as an internet business influencer.<br> It's why I write the least amount of blog posts on my own site!<br> Yes, believe it or not, there are guest posters that have written more than I have on my own blog!<br> Why, you say?<br> And I say back with a strangely creepy inflection, FEEEEEEAR. Fear.<br> <a href="http://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/54464605/0/ibmaudioblogs~Fears-That-Will-Destroy-your-Internet-Business-and-How-to-Banish-Each/preview" rel="attachment wp-att-3354"></a>For some reason I can babble on and on in the podcast, but if I have to go deeper, like in a blog post, I really freeze up. Suddenly, the dishwasher needs to be emptied. My kids ferrets are in serious need of some mauling (to the ferrets dismay). The podcasting profits membership site needs a tweak. Another grumpy cat facebook picture must be sent to Jason for my amusement. ANYTHING else needs to be done rather than write.<br> I realized that it's not just one fear, but a load of fears that are responsible for my freeze up.<br> I've been really annoyed at the control over my life that these fears have taken, so I've been really looking at what I can do about them.<br> Here are some of the fears I've had to overcome and what you (and I) can do about them.<br> FEAR #1: It has to be perfect!<br> I struggled with this issue HARD for the first 4 years. Each episode of the podcast had to be edited by me and had to be perfect. I'd spend 3-4 hours editing a 45 minute podcast, just so I knew that everything was right. It was a major time suck each week and I didn't enjoy it at all, but it HAD to be perfect!<br> When Internet Business Mastery went from hobby to real business, my time was starting to get really tight. I didn't have 4 hours each week to edit the show. It took me a long time to give up the editing task and finally hand it over to the same editor we have today.<br> I was scared we were going to get major complaints.<br> "What happened to the show, it sound terrible!", "Wow, who edits that show, it's not professional at all", "Were you DRUNK when you edited that show?!"<br> Guess how many complaints we've had in the last 4 years about the new editor?<br> None. Zip. Nada. <br> And to top it off, he is only taking about 2 hours to edit them and they sound great. I bet a trained professional editor couldn't tell the difference between our editor and me. YEARS of me taking 4 hours to edit every episode... What a waste of time.<br> By the way, even worse then a time suck is NOT STARTING AT ALL 'cause you think it won't be perfect. This is the business kiss of death.<br> Here is my suggestion; become a "recovering perfectionist"<br> I still want to over think every episode, take 3 times as long with every blog post, spend 6 months on every product, and redo the website every 2 weeks. Here is what I do instead:<br> Counter Fear with Action<br> <br> Now, I just get started (and stop!) as soon as possible.<br> I give myself a time deadline and whatever I have at the end goes out. My goal now is to create value rather than be perfect.<br> 99% of the time my worst fear, which is usually the feeling of being embarrassed, never happens. The other 1% of the time I get a great take-away from the constructive criticism that might come in because I didn't make something perfect.<br>
