Fear of Failure, A Common Life Coaching Issue
 In life coaching fear of failure is a common issue often quoted by people I meet, my coaching clients, who feel they are unable to achieve something they want to achieve.
What if we could reframe the concept of the fear of failure and reach a point where we could embrace it?
What is failure? Is it an inability to do or achieve something or is it possibly the learning process, the opportunity for development growth, by working out how best to do that same something?
Whatever we do put into action, whatever we learn on the way to achieving that something, is all an opportunity to learn, to grow, to increase our skills and knowledge.
Therefore, there is an argument to say there is no such thing as “failure” just feedback on how to do things in another way.
Although I work as a London life coach, I have coached many people through the ‘fear of failure’ by working with them over the phone, throughout the UK and the world. Issues such as these are very changeable and it would be a shame to limit yourself in your life by such limiting beliefs.
Posted in Development, Life Coaching, Personal Development, Personal Growth, Self Image on June 7, 2011
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2 comments on this topic
Feeling the fear of failure is something I have experienced in the past, and ‘reframing’ that feeling into learning and experience is exactly what I have done. You are so right, Natalie – its all a question of
‘how do I see what I do, and how do I change how I see it’.
Thank you for all your great coaching!
Although many people do have this fear, as I’ve often read – the fear we feel is stronger than the actual reality.
And since “failure” is only a perception… how much better would we feel if we thought about it differently, and taught it that way to young people, to make their life journey easier…
Pleasure working with you!
Natalie