7 Reasons Why You Havent Reached Your Goals

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.

The Secret To Visualization Its Something Most People Miss…

I have never underestimated the power of visualization! It has always been a winning technique for me. I want to tell you there is a secret to it that most people miss.
I discovered at a young age that I loved to use my imagination.

I would see all kinds of wonderful things happening for me. This brought me to the realization that everything I had created up to that point I had first visualized. If that were true and it was then I can create ANYTHING with this.

”All Your Wishes Are Granted Master!”

I remember that feeling, it was awe-inspiring. I felt as if I had discovered this power that was similar to a genie. “All your wishes are granted, master.” Sounds good to me!

You don’t want to get visualizing and day dreaming confused. When you visualize you have an intention behind it. That intention creates, energy and the energy creates attraction and that attraction brings about the manifestation.

To give you an example, if I am visualizing about becoming a motivational speaker and I have the intention of speaking for a large group of professionals, inspiring them to move to a higher level of success in their lives.

The Dream

I would see myself in front of a room of hundred’s of people all dressed in business attire. The room is large and open with high ceilings and large open windows all along one side of the room allowing the sun to pour in from out side.

I am standing at a tall dark brown podium. I am dressed in a professional black and grey business suit. I feel excited and enthusiastic as I look into the audience. I can feel my heart beating faster.

I take my time looking around the room connecting with the people in the audience. I can see their faces, I notice their expressions. Are they tired or happy to be there. This allows me to see the audience as human beings, that are individuals rather then a meld of one massive group.

If I only see a massive group that is faceless that can be intimidating. But one person, is one person. If I really look at that person I can see they are just like me. I then do this with the next person and so on. I find the commonality which connects me instead of separating me.

As I connect with the different people in the room I can feel a calm washing over me. I begin to feel centered and at ease with myself. We are all here for the same purpose to raise our level of awareness, so we can easily move through life.

In the short time it takes me to connect with the audience I feel inspiration. Once I am inspired the positive energy starts to flow through me spilling out to the audience. They can feel it and before you know it we as a group are off and running. It’s a connection!

That was a detailed story. The more I can feel that visualization, the more real it is the more likely it is to happen.

Why? At this point I am aligning myself with the vibration that will produce the result. If I am not clear or I included a (disbelief) that hundred’s of business people would pay to hear me speak, then I am sending out a vibration that will manifest exactly that. That would be the opposite of what I want to happen.

Breaking It Down

Looking at it closer you can see that in order for my visualization to become a reality I have to believe it can come true. Then, I have to feel what that is like. Really allow yourself to feel this.

If you are blocked here and can’t feel the excitement, that is the first stumbling block standing in your way. You may not realize this is happening so you keep visualizing that same scene with no excitement or feeling for weeks. When nothing happens with your visualization you decide the process doesn’t work and you stop doing it.

Visualization Is Not Only Seeing

It’s really easy to miss the feeling portion of all this. If you can’t feel it but can only see it, ask yourself, “What is stopping me from feeling excited or peaceful about this?” Now pay attention to what is coming up for you.

Look and see if there is a possibility that you are visualizing something you really aren’t ready for at this time. You may not feel you deserve it. You may feel you do deserve it but are frightened of how it will change your life when you get what you have always wanted.

Preparing For your Visualization to Happen

If your visualization is too big right now, make it smaller until you do feel comfortable with it. That does not mean you shouldn’t dream big, it means hold a less intimidating vision for yourself that would be a stepping stone to the bigger vision.

Graduating To the Big Dream

Once you feel comfortable with the smaller visualization and your great feelings are in alignment with your vision then go to the next step.

Let’s say that you have the “Motivational Speaker” dream. But speaking in front of a hundred’s of business professionals that are all spending their hard earned money to listen to you can feel stressful.

Begin by seeing yourself speaking to a small group of five to ten people that you feel comfortable with. Allow yourself to feel at ease with the idea. Then each day expand it until you confidently see your self speaking to a group of hundreds.


Happy Visualizing!!