Self motivation - hopefully sparking motivation in others

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I have been scared recently - scared of the idea of failure, scared of my own thoughts, and feeling lonely and unable to help myself.
Why do some people have such a hard time when dealing with the thought of failure, when failure is not even present in the situation anyway? Why this illusion of failure? Why not the thought of success?

Whilst there are potential past issues or other issues that can be problems, when I think about it, the main reason I fear failure is because I haven't seen the outcomes of my work when I will put it into practice. I have not seen what will become of me, and we live once, at least this life in particular, and I have no experience of either life long success or things not coming to fruition, so why do I look at the idea of failure more than success?
I think that it is fear of the unknown, and inexperience, with the fact that I am blind to the knowledge of what some people have done to achieve what they have.
If I compare myself to people who are doing very well, famous or not, what I don't see is the empathy side of things... I don't see the fact that some people who have sorted their career's out have gone through struggles, or even been outcasts with difficult past lives.

Step 1) I must stop comparing myself to others.
Step 2) I must realize that other people themselves who are satisfied with their well sort out lives have gone through difficult times too, and were not born to have sorted everything out.
Step 3) I must work on my ablities and what I enjoy, without looking at roadblocks, which aren't even there.
"I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened."
This is a great quote, and a very useful tool to remember for those like me who have a hyper active brain - we sometimes feel as though stressful things that aren't even real, are.
Step 4) I must get consistent with my work, as I begin to feel comfortable with myself, and remember the above, ^ and the above quote, and well anything else that may help me along the way. Life doesn't have to be tough when we have the coping abilities that might be stored away and are waiting to be put into effect.

And so the future will hold marvelous results if I can start getting comfortable and understand myself.

I do not believe in failure - only circumstances and change. I do believe in success, however.

All of this is my opinion, and I am not a life coach or anything, so take what you need from this.

I truly hope this helps others like I hope it helps me. ^^

A great day to you all. *Hug*

Peace and harmony.

That's similar to the work, that I've done on myself, last autumn. That's a really good post. Thank you, for posting it.

Very, very, VERY well said!

Very helpful