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Fear of failure is closely related to fear of criticism and fear of rejection.

Fear of failure is one of the greatest fears people have. Fear of failure is closely related to fear of criticism and fear of rejection. Successful people overcome their fear of failure. Fear incapacitates unsuccessful people.

The Law of Feedback states: there is no failure; there is only feedback. Successful people look at mistakes as outcomes or results, not as failure. Unsuccessful people look at mistakes as permanent and personal.

Buckminster Fuller wrote, “Whatever humans have learned had to be learned as a consequence only of trial and error experience. Humans have learned only through mistakes.”

Most people self-limit themselves. Most people do not achieve a fraction of what they are capable of achieving because they are afraid to try—because they are afraid they will fail.

Take these steps to overcome your fear of failure and move yourself forward to getting the result you desire:

Step One: Take action. Bold, decisive action. Do something scary. Fear of failure immobilizes you. To overcome this fear, you must act. When you act, act boldly.

Action gives you the power to change the circumstances or the situation. You must overcome the inertia by doing something. Dr. Robert Schuller asks, “What would you do if you knew you could not fail?” What could you achieve? Be brave and just do it. If it doesn’t work out the way you want, then do something else. But DO SOMETHING NOW.

Step Two: Persist. Successful people just don’t give up. They keep trying different approaches to achieving their outcomes until they finally get the results they want. Unsuccessful people try one thing that doesn’t work and then give up. Often people give up when they are on the threshold of succeeding.

Step Three: Don’t take failure personally. Failure is about behavior, outcomes, and results. Failure is not a personality characteristic. Although what you do may not give you the result you wanted, it doesn’t mean you are a failure. Because you made a mistake, doesn’t mean that you are a failure.

Step Four: Do things differently. If what you are doing isn’t working, do something else. There is an old saying, “if you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you always got.” If you’re not getting the results you want, then you must do something different. Most people stop doing anything at all, and this guarantees they won’t be successful.

Step Five: Don’t be so hard on yourself. Hey, if nothing else, you know what doesn’t work. Failure is a judgement or evaluation of behavior. Look at failure as an event or a happening, not as a person.

Step Six: Treat the experience as an opportunity to learn. Think of failure as a learning experience. What did you learn from the experience that will help you in the future? How can you use the experience to improve yourself or your situation? Ask yourself these questions:

(1) What was the mistake?

(2) Why did it happen?

(3) How could it have been prevented?

(4) How can I do better next time?

Then use what you learned from the experience to do things differently so you get different results next time. Learn from the experience or ignore it.

Step Seven: Look for possible opportunities that result from the experience. Napoleon Hill, author of Think and Grow Rich, says “every adversity, every failure and every heartache carries with it the seed of an equivalent or a greater benefit.” Look for the opportunity and the benefit.

Step Eight: Fail forward fast. Tom Peters, the management guru, says that in today’s business world, companies must fail forward fast. What he means is that the way we learn is by making mistakes. So if we want to learn at a faster pace, we must make mistakes at a faster pace. The key is that you must learn from the mistakes you make so you don’t repeat them.

Although we all make mistakes, fear of failure doesn’t have to cripple you. As self-help author Susan Jeffers says, “feel the fear and do it anyway.”

Don’t give up

Don’t give up on your business!

Winter time must a lot of work at home Moms start to think that their business is a flop and begin to look for a new opportunity. This is fine if your business is truly a flop – but chances are, you just need to take a look at it from a fresh perspective.

It will always be easier to give a present business a fresh effort than to start all over.

Here are three very good reasons why:

Reason #1 – You will earn Respect. When you stick with something, you develop respect from others. When you flit from one opportunity to another you will be viewed with some sceptisism from others who will wonder how long you’ll last with the new business before changing again!

Reason #2 – You will earn Product Recognition. How many times do we have to read it? The business experts all say it takes two years to really get a business off the ground. So why do we give up so easily after just two months? When we keep grounded and keeping working the business we have, we begin to be recognized for our product. This is true locally and online. There are so many online WAHMs who when I see them, I think of their product.

Reason #3 – It’s Financial Smart. Instead of investing $1000 to $3000 or more into a new business, invest that into a really good marketing effort. Reach a new group of people! Sponsor a great event or contest that will reach new potential customers.

The key here is to really brainstorm! Imagine that you are starting a new business, what is it that you would do to get the word out? Now just do it for your present business! LOL! It’s so simple that many WAHMs miss it. Don’t waste all the energy on starting over – apply it to what you already know about. I spend countless hours with my SAHMs helping them try and learn new approches to there marketing systems. Many times after a day or to they get the boost they needed and are back on track and killing those winter blues…….

Unfortunately, there’s a lot of fools’ gold, bad advice and even downright scams

Once you’ve built your masterpiece, you have to spread the word. Submitting your Web site to search engines, directories and related sites is critical to success. The real Web-savvy companies have whole teams of geeks who spend their days figuring out how to get better rankings in search engines.

Unfortunately, there’s a lot of fools’ gold, bad advice and even downright scams in the Web site promotion field. If you go about promoting your site the wrong way, you can actually hurt traffic instead of helping to build it. Here are 10 things you should definitely not do, no matter how tempting some spam message makes it sound:

1 – Spam Not!

This is the cardinal rule of Netiquette. Mass, unsolicited e-mail is not acceptable, anywhere, for any reason. There are hundreds of hustlers out there trying to sell you databases and software that you can use to spam, but don’t believe their promises. Spamming will make enemies for you, not friends. It can also get you barred from large ISPs, crippling your traffic.

2 – Don’t shell out big for submission services.

Submit your site to 500 search engines for $19.95! Bad deal. There aren’t 500, or even 100, search engines worth submitting to. The 19.95ers simply run your URL through an auto-submitter (like Selfpromotion.com or submitit.com), which you can do yourself for free. If you want a professional to submit your site, plan on spending a few hundred bucks at most, which should buy you a careful and thorough job. I myself currently offer a basic submission service for $350, and I admit that I’m a little pricey. Insist on receiving documentation of everything that’s been done, including all e-mail autoresponses from the search engines.

3 – Don’t waste time on the flotsam and jetsam of the Web.

Submit your site to the major search engines and directories, perhaps using one of the auto-submitters for some, and doing others individually. There are about 30 that are worth submitting to. Then seek out specialized directories that are appropriate for your site (travel, investment, shopping, country-specific, etc.). Don’t waste time with obscure search engines and kids’ links pages. There are billions of pages like this, but they get zilcho traffic. Your time is better spent carefully crafting your submission to Yahoo.

4 – Don’t rush through your Yahoo submission.

Yahoo is by far the most important directory, and the hardest to get into. Submissions are reviewed by real editors, so follow the instructions to the letter, and really try to convince them that your site is a useful resource. Some good tips are to be found on the rather obscure page called “My Site on Yahoo,” and selfpromotion.com also has some good Yahoo tips.

5 – Never submit your site until it’s open for business.

Test your site thoroughly, and make sure every section is complete before you begin submitting. Most surfers will never return to a URL where they found a dead link or an “under construction” sign.

6 – Don’t forget to integrate your URL into your business.

It’s amazing how many companies spend big bucks to build a Web site, then balk at the cost of printing new business cards to include the URL. Your Web site URL should be on every piece of company media from letterheads to coffee cups – anywhere that a phone number would be included.

7 – Don’t mess with black magic.

There are a lot of sneaky tricks discussed in the various Web promotion newsgroups and mailing lists, that claim to improve your search engine rankings. Loading your page with invisible keywords, creating special “doorway” pages with magic dust on them, and secret programs (for $19.95) that “force-feed” your page to search engines. Don’t fool with it. The search engines and directories wage an ongoing battle against those who would “beat the system,” and they can and will bar you if they suspect you of “spamming” them. Do use META tags, keywords in titles and body text, and that sort of thing, but don’t overdo it, and always follow the submission rules.

8 – Don’t put anything in your Web site directory that you don’t want the public to see.

Most of us have a few “test” pages, or perhaps pages of personal material, that we keep on our Web server, but that isn’t meant to be seen by the public. Straight search engines like Excite and Altavista, however, will automatically “spider” and index every page on your site, unless you tell them not to. Create a text file called “robots.txt,” and place it in your Web site’s root directory (usually the “htdocs” directory). This file has a list of pages or directories that you want to keep the spiders out of, and it looks something like this:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /test/
Disallow: /temporary/
Disallow: /templates/

This tells all visiting spiders not to fool with any of the 3 named directories. Note that the directory names must end with a “/”.

9 – Don’t neglect to measure your traffic.

Some wise man said, “If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.” Be sure to keep your server log files safe, and use the software tool of your choice to analyze them. Your ISP may offer one or more free tools for your use. Getstats is one popular free one. If you can shell out a few hundred bucks, high-powered traffic analysis packages like Hit List or Web Trends can really help you boost your traffic by telling you how many hits are coming from each search engine, and what keywords people are searching on to reach your site.

10 – When you’re finished, don’t stop!

Site promotion is an ongoing process. Once you’ve made your submissions, check back a month later, and you’ll find that some of them didn’t take. Resubmit as necessary, but don’t overdo it. Always be on the lookout for new sites that might be willing to give you a link, and for new (but legitimate and preferably free) promotion opportunities.

Good information I wanted to share with my fellow bloggers

One of the best ways to get instant traffic to a web site is to pay the search engines to get listed, using “pay per click” advertising.

Of course, the better your pages are, the more likely the search engines will list them for free, and let people click all day without charging you a penny.

Page Rank is this thing from Google , where each page on your site gets a ranking from 0 to 10, and supposedly, the higher the number, the better it is for you and everyone else. Getting a better pagerank usually means you get better search engine results on the search pages, so I am going to show you how to do some things to your pages that will increase your pagerank and give you better results on those search engine results pages (they call them “SERPS” ).

Interested? Lets get into the simple seo stuff you can do to get higher rankings, better Page Rank, and all that stuff.

1. Generate links on other websites pointing to your website, using popular keywords.

Having a lot of other sites pointing to your site is a surefire way to get the attention from the search engines. If those links use words that people search for, you have a shot at getting on the results pages of the search engines.

One way to do this is with article marketing (see my other articles). You simply write a short informative article, include an author box with a hyperlink back to your website, using a keyword you know people search for. Then you submit this article to many article directories.

2. Make sure your keyword is in the title tag.

The title tag is what is at the top of your browser when people visit your page. Your keyword should be there.

3. Start your headline with your keyword.

The headline is the big text on your web page. It is the “H1″ tag, if you look at the code for your page. Your page should have only one big headline, and your keyword should be in it.

4. Make sure other related keywords are on your page.

Putting related words on your web page means it is designed to be read by others, and the search engines love these kinds of pages, and include them in their results pages.

5. Look at the source of your web page, and remove codes.

To look at your page in html mode, open it, and then right click and choose “view source”. What you are looking for is stuff that isn’t readable, like javascript code and “css” descriptions. Move that stuff into other files, and include it from your page. Get the help of a techie if you don’t get this part. Basically, you want Google and the other bots to read writing you can read, and nothing else. If the top of your page is filled with programming junk, you will not get ranked in the search engines.

6. Put the full link to your internal HTML pages.

This means instead of linking to flowers.html, you should link to http://www.yoursite.com/flowers.html. This makes the search engines visit your other pages, and list them in their results.

7. Maintain your site.

By keeping things new on your website, it means you have active dynamic content, which the search engines love. So keep things maintained and updated, and your rankings in the “SERPS” will rise steadily.

Put these tips into action, and watch how it improves your results, but in your listings in the search engines, and in the extra web site traffic it creates. SEO is easy, once you know the simple steps to take – so take a step now.