Many persons have told me they'd love to be self-employed, work from home or while traveling, being their own bosses and deciding what to do whenever they want to. That's the problem, they've just told me. They haven't done anything to live their dream.

Why?

Because most of them are just too afraid of losing their jobs. Their secure, socially accepted, but boring, position where they can expect a paycheck every month.

Are you thinking that a dream job or business will come and find you while locked in a cubicle?

Are you aware that fear is the reason you are where you are in the first place?

Your parents, your teachers, even the priests (heck, how medieval!) told you to go to school, get a degree, then a job and spend the rest of your life that way. Just accept it, that's the way it is.

You are living in a constant state of fear and that's the first thing you need to overcome if you want to become your own boss.

Running your own business or professional practice, no matter if using the Internet or not, requires you to be smart, intelligent enough to make your own decisions, the right and wrong ones. Only that way you will be able to achieve success.

Jiddu Krishnamurti, I love that guy, once said:

Most of us, as we grow older, become frightened; we are afraid of living, afraid of losing a job, afraid of tradition, afraid of what the neighbors, or what the wife or husband would say, afraid of death. Most of us have fear in one form or another; and where there is fear there is no intelligence.

No intelligence. You see? What can we do with no intelligence? Nothing at all. We must overcome fear now, that's why I'm talking about the emotional issues first. I will review practical matters in later articles but first let's fight fear.

It's actually quite easy. Think about the worst scenario, what could happen if you fail?

Can't you stand the “I told you that was wrong” people? Who cares about what others say or think! Forget about them.

Would you feel a loser after failing?

People don't want to fail, that's natural, but also a big problem, because only by failing, lots of times, you will finally find what is needed to succeed. You may make a hit after 100 attempts, but to get there you have to go from 1 to 99.

Do you want to learn from each experience? Then you must accept failure as a possibility.

Of course I'm talking about failing after making a good, honest effort and then acting on the lessons learned.

Society has taught you that you must not fail, and if you do, you must hide the fact. When you are working in a conventional company most employees might fear sharing their past lessons because they could be interpreted as incompetence.

Right! We live in a perfect world and nobody ever was wrong, we all were born perfect. Come on! Are we blind?

We need to fail, and go on and fail again and again. That's learning. That's the way to success.

Smart persons know the power of experience and prefer working with people that failed and accept it, people that have overcome fear and know how to do it over and over again to achieve their goals.

I like to work with smart people, don't you?

So, don't be afraid of losing your job, of starting a new and better life. Start your own revolution.

Anything truly revolutionary is created by a few who see what is true and are willing to live according to that truth; but to discover what is true demands freedom from tradition, which means freedom from all fears.

Krishnamurti, once again.