Feeling highly motivated, rearing to embark on your journey to success. The fire has been lit in you and you already started working on tasks and making contacts with those who will help you achieve your goals.

But, after few days, negative thoughts started filling your mind. Now, you've started doubting your ability to be successful, you are afraid of failure and you aren’t sure if it is going to be worth your time anymore. Day by day objections continue building and you've started to walk away from the lofty idea you were once sure could give you the big break.

Note, if you can’t fight against your objections, it will be difficult to motivate yourself to do anything worthwhile. Thankfully, overcoming doubts can be done if you are willing to take the time and think through each one. Of course, your motivation won’t return overnight, but gradually you can get it back.

Here are 4 thoughts you need to get rid of to succeed:

You’re right in that” you’re not going to succeed”. Not in the beginning at least. Very rarely has anything worthwhile been successful on the first try. You would probably be familiar with Thomas Edison 999 times of failing before finally getting it right at last.

You can learn from the mistakes of others, but you will inevitably make yours. Not everything you do will be a success, that’s one way you’ll learn to appreciate success. That’s not to say that failing for the sake of failing is productive. What it does mean is that every success has a few failures behind it. If it’s going to happen anyway, accept it and keep working. The success you achieve in the end will brush away all the feelings you had about your failures.

You’re assiduously working on a project that is meaningful to you, but somehow other people around you think you’re wasting your time. Eventually, you might also start looking at that work and begin to believe you are actually wasting your time. Then a feeling that other people could achieve success faster than you could sets in, and you conclude you must be doing something wrong.

Is that really true? Success rarely occurs overnight. While you might see stories of people who have achieved overnight success, the stories never cover the hard work that happened behind-the-scenes. Success doesn’t have a time limit either. It’s not a race.

If it takes you 3 years to become successful instead of 2, that’s still better than not being successful at all. As long as you aren’t working without a purpose, you’re not wasting your time. You are just approaching success at a pace that is right for you.

You know you’re working hard and you are dedicated to what you are doing, but you have encountered a lot of failure in the past so while you genuinely want this to succeed, deep down you have a feeling this won’t work like those of the past and are trying to protect yourself from disappointment.

It’s understandable, as facing the full brunt of disappointment can be hard to swallow. However, betting against yourself before you’re finished doesn’t make a lot of sense. If you believe it won’t succeed, why would you put so much time and effort behind it? If you want to prevent yourself from feeling the pain of failure, do everything you can to make it a success.

Could you fail in the end? Yes. But rather than approach your work believing it could fail, pour your heart and soul into making it successful. If you do that, no matter what happens, you can stand up again with your head held high.

You might have had a great idea that was revolutionary and amazing a few years ago, but now it looks like it’s no longer special or someone has beaten you to the punch. Timing is important when it comes to success. It is very difficult to succeed if your ideas and plans haven’t kept up with the times.

While your idea might be awesome before, you feel that time has caught up with it and your idea isn’t as interesting anymore. You can always make changes and update to your ideas, can’t you? There are many products and services that are similar, and yet they still compete with each other. Maybe all your idea needs is a bit of new information to make it viable again.

Remember, success doesn’t have a time limit. If your ideas are out-of-date, update them. You can still catch up and be successful. Just don’t try to solve future issues with past solutions and you should be fine.

I agree it’s not so easy to fight against the doubts in your mind, but what other option do you have?  Everyone seems scared of not doing their best, wasting their time or worrying about the future. Sometimes the best thing to do is to take a step back and think. Think about why you are scared and have answers to help you overcome those doubts. Then you can slowly regain your motivation and work hard again.

You can overcome the doubts in your mind. They are valid concerns, but ones that can be addressed. As long as you address them, you can fully dedicate yourself to the challenges ahead. When you have an answer for your doubts, you gain the confidence to keep moving forward.

Which one of these thoughts holds you back the most? Leave your comments below!