7 Roadblocks to Success
Once you know these, you can always move way from them and navigate your way through to the end of your goals and achieve them.
Let's take a look at these things.
1. Fear Of Success And/Or Failure.
Some people are afraid they will fail or, even worse, that they may actually succeed. As such, they don’t even bother trying to attain a goal.
Such people lack belief in themselves and in their potential. In their mind, if they fail, everyone will think negatively of them.
And if they succeed, people will be envious and think negatively of them.
So it becomes a lose-lose situation no matter how they look at it. But realize that you can achieve anything you set your mind to. Believe in yourself and your abilities and others will, too.
2. Lack Of Understanding About The Goal-setting Process
Many people mistakenly believe that goal setting simply means putting a goal on paper, setting a date for completion, marking off checkpoints as they occur and then starting all over again.
Such a mentality hinders people from success, because a goal isn’t a one-time thing that you eventually scratch off a list.
Setting a goal is really about changing yourself for the long-term.
Goals aren’t short-term, quick-fix things; they are fixed and immovable destinations that show the world who you want to become or what you want to achieve.
3. Lack Of Commitment To The Goal.
Even though people state they want to achieve a certain goal, in truth, they’re really not committed to it.
Because of this lack of commitment, they don’t give the act of goal attainment their full effort.
And as with anything in life, if you don’t give it your all, you receive mediocre results. Commitment is crucial for attaining any goal.
4. Inactivity
After setting a goal, writing down dates and setting checkpoints, some people stop.
They never actually take that first step needed to progress toward their goal. But realize if you don’t get started, you can’t go anywhere.
Without action, nothing happens. So if you’ve created a goal list and now wonder why none of your goals are transpiring, ask yourself what action steps you’ve taken to achieve your goals.
If you haven’t taken any action, now is the time to start.
5• Having Too Many Goals
Some people have too many goals and not enough focus. It’s like they’re standing in front of a dart board with three targets in mind.
Hitting just one target is difficult enough; hitting three targets simultaneously with one dart is impossible.
Therefore, determine the one goal you are focused on and move forward with that one goal only.
Eliminate other goals that are secondary. This is not to say that you should never have more than one goal.
Rather, you need to realize that you have only so much time and energy.
Therefore, choose the goal that will give you the highest ROE (return on effort) and focus on that one goal first. Once complete, you can then focus on other goals in sequence.
Practice Single-Handling On Each Task
Single handling is one of the most powerful time and personal management techniques of all. What this means is that, once you have selected your goal, you start on that task and work on it with single-minded concentration until it is 100% complete.
You discipline yourself to concentrate without diversion or distraction.
If you find yourself getting distracted, or you feel tempted to take a break or procrastinate, you motivate yourself by continually repeating, “Back to work! Back to work! Back to work!”
You then renew your efforts to push the task through to completion.
6• Feeling Unworthy Of The End Result
Some people really don’t believe they’re worthy of attaining the goal. As such, they self-sabotage themselves.
Perhaps they suddenly walk away from the key contact who will help them with their goal, or they neglect to do a critical activity that will enable them to achieve their goal.
People who feel unworthy usually lack self-confidence, and confidence is the keystone to goal attainment.
7. The Fear Of Saying NO.
You can say YES to everything. I believe you already know this. Use your choice well. If you say YES to everything, and NO to nothing, you'll become "A Jack Of All Trade, A Master Of None".
You are always free to choose. It is in this hour-by-hour and minute-by-minute choosing of what you will do, and simultaneously, what you will not do, that your entire life is made.
The Law of the Excluded Alternative says that, “Doing one thing means not doing something else.”
Whenever you begin on a task of any kind, you are consciously or unconsciously deciding not to do any other task that you could do at that moment.
Your ability to choose wisely in terms of what you do first, what you do second and what you do not at all determines your entire life.
I believe that when you do the above mentioned you will be able to achieve your set goals
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