7 Reasons Why You Haven’t Reached Your Goals
You don’t know what success is
The problem with success is that most people don’t fully understand what it is. Success cannot be generalized because success is not the same thing for everyone. A successful life all depends on the individual’s goals for themselves and their ability to achieve those goals.
Wrong assessment of what you can do
I’ve never been a big American Idol fan. It is amazing the fanatics that this show has spawned through a series of singing competitions that are split into elimination rounds. When this show is in season, the talk of every radio and television station is who will win Idol. One of the biggest draws of the program is being able to witness those poor souls who truly believe they are destine to become famous despite their obvious lack of singing talent.
Unreasonable goals
They are sometimes called unrealistic goals. Right along with an assessment of what you can do, you must also correctly assess what the goal is. . In order to prevent yourself from setting unreasonable goals, accomplishments towards that goal should be measured by time.
Your thinking is not aligned with your goals
Doubt and fear are two incredibly powerful inhibitors. Mixed with a lack of clarity and misguided vision, success is almost impossible. Aligning your thoughts with your goals is crucial to what you want to achieve. Changing your thoughts and managing your inhibitors may be a problematic task.
Your Actions are not aligned with your goals
Although I enjoyed The Secret, I think that they failed to emphasis on the importance of action in a successful life. The movie did a good job of inspiring the viewer to change their thinking so that great things will happen but it glanced over the fact that action needs to take place in order to claim those great things. As I said before your thinking is the first step towards success, not the only step.
Your environment is not aligned with your goals
If you’ve never heard of the story of the crab bucket here it is in a nutshell
A man was walking along the beach and saw another man fishing in the surf with a bait bucket beside him. As he drew closer, he saw that the bait bucket had no lid and had live crabs inside.
"Why don't you cover your bait bucket so the crabs won't escape?” he said.
"You don't understand.” the man replied, "If there is one crab in the bucket it would surely crawl out very quickly. However, when there are many crabs in the bucket, if one tries to crawl up the side, the others grab hold of it and pull it back down so that it will share the same fate as the rest of them."
We might look at that story with our big human brains and think that those poor unintelligent creatures doom themselves by their behaviors. Surely humans are much more logical and would never react that way. Truth is people act that way all the time.
You’ve given up too soon.
Thomas Edison said, “Many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up”. The importance of persistence is sometimes overlooked in society today. We require things to come fast and easy and if they don’t, then we move on. This idea doesn’t work when applied to the principals of success. When obstacles appear and the goal seems impossible is when most people bail. There was a recent survey of Pentamillionaires (people who have made 5 million dollars) who started their own business or worked for a small company that had an explosive growth. Most reported that their success came in a lump sum after years of effort. Years of effort!
Take a look at the list and then take a look at your life. Focus on the things that must be change in order to accomplish what you want, then take action to do them.
Author Resource:-
Ralph Jean-Paul is a motivational speaker and the founder of Potential2Success.com. He is a champion speaker who has mentored many to success. Please visit us at Potential2Success.comIam a motivational speaker and the founder of Potential2Success.com. and a champion speaker who has mentored many to success.
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