The Creative Entrepreneur Society Podcast

8. How To NOT Be Afraid of Failure

How much power does fear have in your life?   Fear can seriously impact and limit how we live. It can stop us from loving and serving others freely. It can prevent us from going where life calls us to go and doing what we are called to do.  Fear can even be used by the competition or our ego to steal our purpose.    Because the stakes are so high when it comes to the things we are afraid of, I want to encourage you to confront your fears today.   One of the most transformative things you can do when feeling anxious and afraid is to immerse yourself in that feeling. Allow yourself to trust, have faith, and courage to rise up above the initial fear.   When your faith in yourself becomes bigger than your fears, you should feel confident to be freed from the constraints those fears have created in your life.    When you release yourself, your world grows bigger and more beautiful. Your life opens wide to the possibilities and the miracles that it has for you.   God, the universe, or whatever you believe in, wants us all to live an abundant life–one where we fulfill all the purposes and plans created for us to achieve.    So choose courage and trust over fear, and step into what the good life has for you!   If you are an aspiring creative entrepreneur or are just dabbling in the idea of going for that dream that is placed in your heart,  then this podcast is for you. It will provide you with honest, realistic, practical tools to follow, and a plan to create a foundation for your business to sit on and create the life you have always dreamed of.     Join the conversation! Follow @jessica_laughlin1 on Instagram for daily inspiration, subscribe to this podcast, and be sure to share the show with other aspiring creative entrepreneurs in your life. You are born to do great things, and we are certainly better as a community.   Looking for more? Head over to https://www.jessicalaughlincoaching.com/ [https://www.jessicalaughlincoaching.com/]   This podcast was sponsored by The Creative Entrepreneur Society.com

7. Is Fear of Failure Driving Your Fate?

If you resonate with the "fear of failure" driving your fate, you are in the right place to discover how to control the emotions of doubt. The fear of failing can be immobilizing – it can cause us to do nothing, and therefore resist moving forward. When we allow fear to stop our forward progress in life, we're likely to miss some great opportunities along the way. We can choose to see failure as "the end of the world" or proof of just how inadequate we are. Or, we can look at failure as a learning experience that it often is. Now, what if we look at failure a little differently. Instead of throwing your hands up and saying, “ well, that didn’t work, I guess I’m not cut out for this.” Instead, say, “ well, that didn’t work. How could I make this better, or what would I do differently next time.” Life is 10% what happens to you, 90% what you make of it. What are you going to do with your life? It’s your choice? Listen in to episode 7 today to find out more. If you are an aspiring creative entrepreneur or are just dabbling in the idea of going for that dream that is placed in your heart, then this podcast is for you. It will provide you with honest, realistic, practical tools to follow, and a plan to create a foundation for your business to sit on and create the life you have always dreamed of. Join the conversation! Follow @jessica_laughlin1 on Instagram for daily inspiration, subscribe to this podcast, and be sure to share the show with other aspiring creative entrepreneurs in your life. You are born to do great things, and we are certainly better as a community. Looking for more? Head over to https://www.jessicalaughlincoaching.com/ This podcast was sponsored by The Creative Entrepreneur Society.com

6. Uncover What Keeps You Stuck

So often, we resist following our ideas through and end up sabotaging our dreams instead. Usually, this resistance is due to four (4) main things or 'The Four Cs.' : Courage, Confidence, Clarity, and competence. Let's talk about what this means… 1. Lack of Courage: The lack of courage, or being timid, often stems from some form of fear learned through experience or memory of some kind. When you identify the source of your specific fears, this can help you to begin taking proactive steps to change this behavior and ultimately gain courage in any situation. 2. Lack of confidence: Our fears and doubts cause us to lack confidence in ourselves and our ideas and hold us back from achieving what we want. 3. Lack of clarity: If you don't know what you want to happen, how can you make it happen? You can't! You end up randomly doing things and not getting very far. You have to know what you are trying to achieve or you constantly feel anxious, overwhelmed, stressed, frustrated, and confused. And, lastly 4. Lack of competence: Not having sufficient knowledge or skills to do what we need to do, therefore we end up procrastinating. When we lack the “Four C’s,” it causes us so much resistance; it completely throws us off mentally and emotionally, causes us self-doubt, and ultimately we procrastinate. (can you say Hello, fraud complex) Therefore we hold ourselves back from playing big and showing up. This resistance is not just at the beginning of the entrepreneur's journey but throughout the whole entire process. Every time you level up, you will go through this again and again. You will go through phases of feeling stuck and not making the progress you want, but it will always be due to some kind of resistance holding you back. Listen in today! If you are an aspiring creative entrepreneur or are just dabbling in the idea of going for that dream that is placed in your heart, then this podcast is for you. It will provide you with honest, realistic, practical tools to follow, and a plan to create a foundation for your business to sit on and create the life you have always dreamed of. Join the conversation! Follow @jessica_laughlin1 on Instagram for daily inspiration, subscribe to this podcast, and be sure to share the show with other aspiring creative entrepreneurs in your life. You are born to do great things, and we are certainly better as a community. Looking for more? Head over to https://www.jessicalaughlincoaching.com/ This podcast was sponsored by The Creative Entrepreneur Society.com

5. What Is Your Deadline For Your Dream Life

Everything that has happened to you and for you happens by YOU taking action of some kind. Most everything that has happened that is good or bad was due to the choices you made. There are times when you have taken action on something, and it became apparent that you have no control over the outcome. There are other times when you take action, and you quickly realize that it might be a lot of work, or the result might not be quite right, so you gave up or let the outcome happen TO you versus taking action to redirect it to a positive experience. At that moment, it becomes essential to step into the entrepreneur's role and say, "This is what I want. Here is how I want to get there". We have one life. It's a gift, not a given. Are you living your life on your terms? Are you happy with it? If you answered NO, then please, take action on moving towards those dreams that you have right now. When we think about our dream life, we dream a little small or safe because our mind wants to keep us safe. Our mind keeps us within familiar boundaries. I challenge you to think outside the box, outside the boundaries that keep us safe. Think bigger as if anything and everything is possible. See where the blocks are and then disrupt that story, change your mindset, and rewrite it. And most importantly, Give your dream a deadline. When there is a deadline, it becomes a goal. Without a deadline, it becomes --> someday. Someday isn't going to happen magically, and someday is not a day on the calendar. Be Bold today. Give your dreams a date, a non-negotiable date. By declaring a date, it becomes real. When you give yourself a date, you know that you need to get the actions done to achieve the goal for your deadline.

4. Make Your Big Crazy Dream Come To Life

Have you found yourself daydreaming about some big lavish dream life and then quickly stopped yourself from going too wild and crazy with this vision because it seems so far out of reach. You bring it back in and make it more digestible and safe. You put the dream on the shelf as a someday aspiration vs taking that big lavish dream of yours and making something of it. As adults…why do we do that? I believe that our hopes and dreams or visions are laid in our hearts for a reason. It was placed there for you to see what is possible with your life. Dreaming up an extraordinary dream life that is so big might sound way out of the reach but you can decode it to fit exactly what you want in life and I want to help you do that and achieve everything that is laying in your heart today. It's important to know what your goals are. Your vision for your life or business. Your Big Crazy Dream. It is crucial to figure out what you want your life to look like because there are many distractions out there—a lot of shiny objects that take your focus off of where you want to go. Reevaluating what you want in life is an essential first step. Have you been playing it safe but daydreaming about bigger and better things? Now is the time to dream big and put a plan in place to go for that dream. What is your big crazy dream? Do you have a little fire inside that keeps sparking but you don’t know what to do with it? Listen to this episode. Jessica gives you bite-sized questions to move the needle towards that big crazy dream life and make it a reality. Join the conversation! Follow @jessica_laughlin1 on Instagram for daily inspiration, subscribe to this podcast, and be sure to share the show with other aspiring creative entrepreneurs in your life. You are born to do great things, and we are certainly better as a community. Looking for more? Head over to https://www.jessicalaughlincoaching.com/ This podcast was sponsored by The Creative Entrepreneur Society