Variety’s the spice of life,
And life is made for giving.
So when you feel the “butterflies”,
You know you’re truly living.

(may good fortune smile on you in 2009)
Tony

I see a lot of content that was posted without ‘fear’ and as such is pretty much useless.

I think people with a healthy level of fear and perfectionist tendencies tend to put out better content and value to their readers.

And so very true, I’m a bit of a perfectionist and so I’m always worried that the things i do aren’t good enough, but slowly bit by bit i’ve been getting over it, it’s not easy, but it can be done

It’s great to see that you act totally real in your posts and not like some other successful marketers, that’s why i like you.

Jayen

After writing and publishing my first blog post, I sat back and actually hoped that no one would read it. My first articles now make no sense to me, and my first websites literally look like cr_ _!

We all have that fear of diving in to something new, but if you don’t go for it head first you’ll never get started and learn.

I did listen to Ed’s audio yesterday (before reading your post). He’s always so inspiring and has a great way of viewing things.

Thanks for the post Michelle,
Jane

I experience this myself.

I think it helps to realize lots of great entertainers, with tremendous talent, do too. Stage fright. John Lennon used to feel so intimidated that he sang with his glasses off and his back to the crowd. He pretended to himself that he was just singing in the shower and no one was really there.

At least I read that somewhere.

I’ve felt that way before. I would suggest reading Tim Ferris’ book, “The 4 Hour Work Week” for some great ideas to resolve that situation. If you have a long term plan for handling the work going in, maybe it won’t be so daunting?

I had just written a large post about all sorts of interesting things (i can say that now they are all lost and you are just getting this comment).
Most of all i wanted to tell your readers about the recent research i have just done with your 30 minute backlinks.
I normally would not go for something like this as i consider it to be either:
a. not natural links and therefore harmful or
b. won’t work.

I am happy to say that not only are the links natural but also here are the results i got.

I promoted a recently unpromoted site, the clients selected their keywords and i followed your videos (which took way more than 30 minutes by the way).

I ONLY did the 30 minute backlinks and no other promotion. here are my results – based only on the 30 minute back links.

the site was nowhere in the search engines

after 1 day – no placement
after 3 days – no placement
after 1 week – no placement
after 2 weeks – no placement (and concern growing that all the links must be nofollow)
after 3 weeks – page 1 on google.com, google.es and google.co.uk

Thanks Michelle and Happy Christmas

Regards

Emma

I think it’s fair to say that we all suffer from the fear of rejection at different times in our lives and it takes someone very special from the social media marketing community to admit that to us mere mortals. The fear of rejection has the ability to totally paralyse you, to such an extent that you always stay within your comfort zone and never do all the things that you’d really like to do with your life. It’s a horrible thing to see. I fear rejection myself, heck I even thought twice about writing this comment. I overcame this fear by just saying to myself “What’s the worst that can happen?” and then I just go ahead and do it anyway. This has served me well over the years and has enabled me to achieve things in my life that I am very proud of. I take inspiration from great business people like Sir Richard Branson – look at what he has achieved in his life. It’s truly incredible. Some of his ideas have been rejected and even ridiculed but that never stopped him, he just kept going regardless, he laughed in the face of adversity. He faced many obstacles in his life and has overcome all of them. Take inspiration from others that you admire, it might help you to move forward in your own life.

John O’Hara
United Kingdom

What if it’s the feeling that once you start, you’re going to have to keep on… and on… and on… once you’re committed to an endless cycle of the same thing without end? It’s just so doggone much work to commit to…

Or anyway, that’s the feeling.

You have a very good voice and flow in teaching. lets face it we have all been to sessions at events with horribale speakers, you might have been affraid but you nailed it…so keep at it.

Cheers
Keep up the good work

That fear of ridicule is hard to overcome.
I thought about making videos and podcasts for months but was afraid I would look like a fool.

I finally started making some and you know, once you start doing it, it actually shifts your focus.

“Hey, I can do this. I should have done this months ago”.

I am a perfectionnist. But I had to learn to accept doing “good” ones.