Are these 3 Things Preventing Your Growth and Success?

We typically have the best of intentions. So how and why do things go awry?

Whether it’s re-dedicating ourselves to health and fitness on January 1 or re-focusing in our career, many of us wind up off track relatively quickly. We start making excuses, we tell ourselves it isn’t that big of a deal and we remain mired in mediocrity.

But it can be prevented.

Lack of clear focus and priorities – No journey can begin without a destination, lest we wind up wandering around aimlessly. Integral to the mission is formulation of a specific, targeted goal for which you can map a plot and consistently charge toward the desired result.

Your goal should revolve around needs and wants, be it in career path, health and wellness or personal relationships. It should lie heavily rooted in something you strongly desire, because that desire must keep burning no matter what comes along to fan its flames. No matter how strong your desire or resolve, it will be challenged many times by unforeseen forces and you must want this badly enough to fend them all off and endure.

Over-thinking and second-guessing – Doubt and self consciousness and worry and wondering if we can accomplish our goals and are doing the right things will plague us along the way. It’s normal, but little can really prepare you for these brick walls you will encounter along the way. Typically, after setting a goal, your sheer will propels you through those first days and potentially weeks unfettered. Nevertheless, after that initial burst, you will start to encounter roadblocks of various natures, and you have to plow through them one by one; your passion, your strength of commitment, your character and your discipline are the only things that can ensure you do.

Thinking too much or wondering if your goals are realistic have no place here; you already set the goal for a reason, right? Did you really want or need it, or not? Once you have committed to a viable, vital goal, you must revisit your commitment in times of doubt and re-commit yourself; sometimes many times over.

Negative outside forces – Your lack of focus can also be attributed to people who do not understand your drive and determination, who are jealous of it, who do not want to see you successful, who want to keep you on their level of mediocrity or misery. Don’t let them! Those who really care for you and your journey will emerge just as those who have no place in your life will set themselves apart. When you recognize negativity in thoughts and other people, dismiss and expunge it from your consciousness and life as rapidly as possible. There is no place for this in your life and these forces and people will only keep you down.

Setting attainable goals, accomplishing benchmarks along the way and committing to excellence all while enduring the setbacks along the way is the only way to achieve happiness and success. Whatever your brand of those results, you will reach them once you can effectively control these three greatest hindrances.

Success and happiness are there – you just have to go after them and keep going after them until they are yours.

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