I really don't know why, but everytime I am about to get something started I get filled with doubts eventually.
Right now for example - I have been working on the launch of wizwave.com - an online platform for community-based learning. So far so good. When I had the initial idea I thought it was awesome and I even received great feedback from all kinds of people I know. So I started working on making the idea become reality (or at least a first version of it because I know that the initial idea is in most cases not equal to the final product).
However, now the same thing happnes again. The same thing that happens to me over and over again. I get filled with doubt. I have thoughts like "Come on! Actually this is kind of dumb!", "Something similar already exists and there is no way I could beat them with my limited resources" or "At the end it is going to fail anyway and I will have lost another year". What happens then is usually that I also start to receive negative feedback from other people. I get to here stuff like "There are thousands of places like this already" or "The idea sounds nice, but something like this is not possible to do."
I can logically argue that the existing websites have their weaknesses and that it is actually possible to make my idea reality but at heart I am slowly stopping to believe in my ideas, my skills and myself. I lose motivation and combined with the SAD I suffer from I get really depressed and fall into the mode of self-pity instead of taking action and making a change.
Any advice would be highly appreciated - thanks guys!
Right now for example - I have been working on the launch of wizwave.com - an online platform for community-based learning. So far so good. When I had the initial idea I thought it was awesome and I even received great feedback from all kinds of people I know. So I started working on making the idea become reality (or at least a first version of it because I know that the initial idea is in most cases not equal to the final product).
However, now the same thing happnes again. The same thing that happens to me over and over again. I get filled with doubt. I have thoughts like "Come on! Actually this is kind of dumb!", "Something similar already exists and there is no way I could beat them with my limited resources" or "At the end it is going to fail anyway and I will have lost another year". What happens then is usually that I also start to receive negative feedback from other people. I get to here stuff like "There are thousands of places like this already" or "The idea sounds nice, but something like this is not possible to do."
I can logically argue that the existing websites have their weaknesses and that it is actually possible to make my idea reality but at heart I am slowly stopping to believe in my ideas, my skills and myself. I lose motivation and combined with the SAD I suffer from I get really depressed and fall into the mode of self-pity instead of taking action and making a change.
Any advice would be highly appreciated - thanks guys!
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