Your fear is that you will fail.
Your fear is that people around you will laugh or comment negatively when you fail.
You feel family and society has lots of “big” expectations from you—e.g., starting a major business or working at a Fortune 500 company. So doing something “small,” like taking an offer at a nonprofit, might not be seen in the right light.
You fear to talk to people and selling to people. Interaction with people discourages you, disappointment discourages you.
You fear that you’ll take up work and won’t be able to commit for a long time since you keep moving from one project to another.
You fear your work is not good enough.
And a dozen more fears . . . all inside you. Never validated in the real outside world. Maybe real or not real, you’ll never know. Unless you put that inside thing into the outside world—you’ll never know.
Would you let the sun-set on your own life, without ever knowing? Or would you rather take a chance to find out what’s real and what’s not?
Most of our fears are never life-threatening. So what’s stopping you from finding out—another fear, maybe?