Fear Of Failing
Every project, every site comes with alot of risk of investment, no one but the investor knows just how big the risk is on his hand, dealing with the fear of losing everything is really hard specially if you are just starting out in your online career and a big fail like this can put a damper on your development for at least 6-8 months. Most webmasters share the same trait, it’s fact over feeling. Letting your brain do the judging rather then what you want to do.
It’s important to know when to quit but not to have irrational thoughts over cancelling an on-going project just because of a “fear” of failure, the best thing to do at these times is to take a note of all the pros and cons from all the projects at hand and weigh them, to know what your weaknesses are in the project and if you could make those weaknesses into strengths or not, usually when you have more liabilities in a projects its best to call it quits but if you are looking way into a weakness and exaggerating it so much, just to make it a real problem for yourself then you’ll convince yourself to call it quits.
Usually the only stats you need to know if your project is doing well or not is the income the site is generating and the money going into advertising and keeping the site alive, if you are earning more then you are spending and that income level is going up on a regular pace, that means your project has alot of growth potential, most people ask me why is it that if a project is growing on a slow pace but still growing and is considered to have a lot of potential, it’s because of the fact that the site is making money, and there are possibilities to grow more and more, the more you work the more you earn.
Most of the times webmasters mistake blogger’s block as a sign of failure down the road, i know i did, this is when you need to keep yourself and your decisions intact and try to view the big picture again and to break the bloggers block, there are several ways to break a bloggers block, just a few of the resources here are:
- My post on blogging content guide which highlights types of content a blog should have.
- Problogger’s posts on Battling bloggers block and 20 types of blogposts for ideas to blog
- Copyblogger’s post on Writers Block. Definition and tips on how to break it.
As a final note i’d like to say, take a chance on your beloved project, stick with it, you’ll thank yourself one day 
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