PB054: 3 Questions to Ask When Facing Fear

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How to Improve Your Blog by Facing Your Fears

Today’s episode is all about fear. Fear holds a lot of people back from engaging. If you let it, fear can hold you back from being an effective blogger, podcaster, live streamer or social media user. I share some strategies for recognising, harnessing and overcoming your fear so that you can use it to your advantage.

In This Episode

You can listen to today’s episode above or in iTunes or Stitcher (where we’d also LOVE to get your reviews on those platforms if you have a moment). In today’s episode:

• Why fear can actually be a good thing for your blogging
• I share some of my real-life fears and how I got through them
• 3 questions to ask yourself when you’re facing fear
• Why trying to smash or eliminate fear could be unhelpful
• How you can be behave bravely even though you’re scared

Further Reading and Resources for How to Improve Your Blog by Facing Your Fears

• Top Tips to Let Go of Fear
• 3 Questions to Ask When Facing Fear [And Why Wobbly Courage Is Enough]
• The 7 Deadly Fears of Blogging and How to Overcome Them
• 6 Practices to Overcome Your Fears of Playing Bigger
• Beat Your Fear of Technology, and Grow Your Blog
• Blogging and Insecurity: Conquering the Fear of Presenting Your Big Ideas
• 10 Hurdles I’ve Faced as a Blogger and How I Got Over Them

The podcast episode I mention where I did my first ever interview:

• Episode 52: 10 Writing Tips to Help You Sound More Human

Full Transcript Expand to view full transcript Compress to smaller transcript view Hi there and welcome to the ProBlogger Podcast episode 54. My name is Darren Rowse and I am the blogger behind ProBlogger and the ProBlogger Podcast. It’s great to have you with us today. Today, I want to talk about fear, which is something I know holds a lot of bloggers, podcasters, live streamers, and pretty much any social media participant back from engaging.

In fact this morning I was talking to someone and encouraging them to get on to Periscope and fear was the major factor there. I want to talk about some strategies for overcoming fear and moving past fear. Not ignoring it because I think it has its place, but getting past it and getting to a point where it doesn’t hold you back, and even being able to harness it a little bit.

You can find today’s show notes at problogger.com/podcast/54. I also want to briefly mention before I get today’s podcast, episode 52 which is my first ever interview with Beth Dunn. I’ve had so much positive impact on that particular episode and if you haven’t listened to it yet, I would encourage you to go back and have a quick listen to it. It’s not long, it’s an interview in which Beth shares some [...] tips; ten simple, practical, actionable tips.

But that’s not the reason I’m mentioning it today although that was a good episode. I want to get your feedback on who you want to see interviewed in future ProBlogger podcasts. Now, I’m tempted to get some of my big blogging friends that you would have heard before on and I may do that, but one of the things I’ve heard about Beth’s interview was that she was someone you perhaps hadn’t heard from before. I am trying to unearth some of these smaller bloggers and people who have expertise in some of these fields that are useful to blogge...