Clarify Your Thinking

Accepting the Trade-Offs of Entrepreneurship

We all want to experience the upsides of entrepreneurship—the success, the praise, the creative freedom, the money.

But each of those things is just one side of a coin. For every upside, there’s an inherent downside. The possibility of success comes with the possibility of failure. Same for praise vs blame, creative freedom vs external judgement, and financial abundance vs financial scarcity.

Fear of Rejection, Part 5: Level Up Your Exposure

In this final post in the series about overcoming your fears around failure and rejection, we’re going to wrap up with ways to slowly ratchet up exposure to your discomfort and break down your deepest limiting beliefs—without getting completely overwhelmed.

Fear of Rejection, Part 4: Making Freedom from Fear a Daily Habit

In the last few posts, I shared how many of us accidentally train ourselves to expect failure, why trying to use “positive thinking” to overcome your fears rarely works, and how to start dismantling your fear-based, limiting beliefs.

Today we’ll look at a simple daily meditation practice you can use to let go of deeply ingrained fears and start instilling healthier mental habits.

Fear of Rejection, Part 3: Uprooting Your Limiting Beliefs

In the last two posts, we explored how we accidentally train ourselves to expect failure, and why trying to use “positive thinking” to overcome our fears rarely works.

Today, we’ll look at how you can dismantle those fear-based, limiting beliefs by asking yourself one simple question.

Fear of Rejection, Part 2: The Limitations of Positive Thinking

In my last post, we explored how many of us accidentally train ourselves to expect failure. Today, we’ll look at why your attempts to reframe rejection and failure as “good” usually fall flat, and what you can do instead to start overcoming the fears that are holding you back.

We’ve all heard that you should think of failure as learning, that every no just brings you one step closer to a yes, and that rejection is the natural byproduct of success. And yet, despite your best efforts to adopt a more positive spin on failure and rejection, it’s likely that you still struggle with both of them.

There’s a way to detach from fear-based conditioning and start seeing through the limiting stories that are keeping you stuck. But first, you need to get out of the habit of trying to cover up your limiting beliefs with positive thinking.

Fear of Rejection, Part 1: How We Accidentally Train Ourselves to Expect Failure

You’re an entrepreneur. An artist. A creator.

You have a calling so strong that you can feel it in your bones—to build a business that expresses your unique talents, interests, and purpose.

But for many of us, there’s a knot of fear and anxiety deep under all that ambition. A nagging voice that keeps telling us “this won’t work,” overshadowing our natural optimism and inspiration. These conflicting beliefs create a constant battle for control between the entrepreneur/artist/creator, and the part of us that expects to fail.

Finding it hard to think straight with all of the noise and distractions? Feeling stuck in indecision mode and analysis paralysis?

Let’s explore the concept of critical thinking, and how to think and plan more strategically, so you can take decisive action and make more effective long-term decisions.