Timidity: The Fifth Enemy from Within | Personal Development Coach

As a business coach in The Woodlands and as a business coach in Houston I have seen and experienced timidity. What is timidity? Quite simply, timidity is overly cautious. Timidity or over caution, will keep people on the sidelines when they need to be in the game of business and life.

Interestingly, timidity can hold back talented and nice people. Why? A timid person will not take a risk. They always want to have both feet planted firmly on the ground. If you think about it, when you take a step forward, you get out of balance. Timid people love balance.

Yet, when you are totally in balance, you cannot move. Very often timid people although qualified will not get the promotion or be offered opportunities to advance. Why? Because others see that stepping out or taking a risk makes them uncomfortable.

In my personal business coaching practice, timidity is something that everyone has to deal with at times. Sometimes it is appropriate. But if you let the over caution of timidity govern you it will leave you out of more opportunities in business and life than you can imagine.

Timidity is connected to indifference, indecision, doubt and worry in that all these enemies from within are cured or alleviated by action. Where worry may take someone off course, timidity will prevent you from taking another course that may greatly improve your business and life.

My self-improvement tip for combatting timidity is that action cures fear. There is fear in taking the action, but once it is taken it becomes a learning experience, whether you succeed or fail, that will move you forward. As was pointed out earlier, to take a step forward you have to get out of balance.

Only when you get out of balance and take new action can you start to overcome timidity. Only then can you start to change your mindset to take you on the road to success.

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