Are You Afraid To Sell Your Home? Challenge Your Fears

When it comes to selling our home, many people want to make a move yet continuously find reasons as to why it is not the right time. Most of the time this is related to fear of the unknown.

In his book The 4-Hour Work Week, Timothy Ferris outlines what I consider to be a remarkable strategy for confronting your fear and stepping into action. This involves a question and answer (Q&A) session with yourself, where you quickly write down your answers to the following questions, spending just a few minutes on each answer. Don’t think! Simply write down whatever comes to mind!

1. Define your nightmare, the absolute worst that could happen if you SOLD your home. What would be the
permanent impact, if any, on a scale of 1-10?

2. What steps could you take to repair the damage or get things back on the upswing, even if temporarily?

3. What are the outcomes or benefits, both temporary and permanent, of more probable scenarios? Now that
you’ve defined the nightmare, what are the more probable or definite positive outcomes?

4. What are you putting off out of fear? Usually, what we most fear doing is what we most need to do.

5. What is it costing you – financially, emotionally, and physically – to postpone action?

What are you waiting for? If you cannot answer this question without resorting to the previously rejected concept of good timing, the answer is simple: you are afraid, just like the rest of the world. Measure the cost of inaction, realize the unlikelihood and reparability of most missteps, and develop the most important habit of those who excel and enjoy doing so: action.