Fear Of A Bad Outcome

This fear feels like a generalized anxiety about life and is prone to worst-case-scenario thinking. You desire certainty in the outcome in order to feel safe in a dangerous world. This desire, distorted by fear, drives you to seek to control circumstances or outcomes through micromanaging all the variables. Alternately, it can cause you to crumble under the weight of the uncertainty of life or in business. This fear keeps you from boldly stepping into an unknown future. Preferring, rather, to remain in moments from the past where you felt safe and secure, effectively shutting your life down.

Circus

The circus finds itself going through the motions, failing to upgrade its systems or approach in order to pursue growth. Rather than being honest about reality and adjusting, the circus believes if it just stays persistent in the routines, something will eventually change. But then nothing changes. The show doesn’t go on. Eventually, tumbleweeds blow through and the circus fades into irrelevance.

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What you value is an important element for any successful team or organization. However, in limbo moments when you feel stress, pressure, change or uncertainty, your values will become out-of-balance, causing you to build unbalanced teams and create an unbalanced culture.

The core value of those with this fear is Stability. Without awareness, in times of stress you will overvalue Safety and undervalue Adversity.

Every leader pursuing an ambitious horizon experiences doubts. You will experience relational doubts ("Do they like me?") and you will experience mission doubts ("Am I doing a good job?"). At the root of it all is a mindset doubt.

If this is your top fear, your core doubt is "I doubt I am safe from danger". Here are also a few questions that may help you see and understand your doubt better.

You can fool yourself into believing that perfecting details are essential to achieving short- and long-term goals.

Any variables must be perfected. You need to have certainty and/or control.