Sunday, September 7th, 2008
I really hope that you learn something here. Just like if lack of money is one of the obstacles that block your road to success, then you must find ways to cope with this. So what can you do is that you can break this myth by reading success stories of those who achieve great success from scratch. You have to start from your belief and mindset. Hence, read more to first break your limiting beliefs.
5. The Fear of Failure
Someone who has failed at something in the past might be haunted by that experience for months or even years. This can easily cause insecurity and self-doubt which are ingredients for failure, not success. In order to get past a negative experience, consider what you have learned from the mistake or how you have grown from facing this difficulty. The same is true of overcoming a fear of failure. Consider that even if you fail at whatever it is you would like to try, you will learn and grow from experience, determine how you can grow from any failure and then focus on the future as opposed to dwelling on the past. Let’s face it, everyone makes mistakes in his or her life. Those who learn from their mistakes and determine ways never to repeat them are the ones who most easily move forward in their lives and become the most successful.
Think about Thomas Edison for a moment. He tried more than 10,000 times just to find out the right material for the light bulb. If he fails a few times and decide that it is just impossible to invent the light bulb, you are going to live in a world without light today. You can read more about the fear of failure here in my other post. It is an interesting story and I hope that it is going to inspire you to keep moving on.
6. There’s Too Much Stress In Your Life
We’re living in a fast-paced, highly competitive world where stress is a major part of our everyday lives. Those who learn how to cope with their stress and deal with it are at a significant advantage over people who dwell in stressful situations and take their stress home with them from work (or take their stress from home to work). One of the best ways of eliminating or greatly reducing stress in your life is to understand what causes it and to find ways of coping with or getting rid of it. Living with ongoing stress is not healthy from a mental or physical standpoint. Obviously, some jobs are incredibly stressful. That is the nature of the work. However, learning how to leave that stress at work and be relaxed when you come home at the end of the day is a very critical move.
Too many people, when you ask them why are they living a mediocre life, they will answer you that they just don’t have the time and they have been tight from their job. You must learn how to overcome this since you knew that this is one of the obstacles that is going to block you in your way to success. If you are feeling very stressful everyday after your work, find some ways to relax yourself and cure this. Simply spending a short amount of time everyday pampering yourself is a way of relieving stress. Go for a massage, taking hot bath, go for a walk in the park, doing yoga or meditation, sports or gym are great ways in relieving your stress.
Sometimes, read inspirational articles or books help as well. Choose the method that you like the most. And if you need to get inspired, I suggest you to read more articles or download free eBooks from the internet. Obviously, my blog is a great place for this.
7. Your Personality and Mindset
Your personality and mindset plays a major role in how people perceive you and in the reputation you create for yourself over time. If you maintain an outgoing and friendly personality and become known as someone who is trustworthy, hard working, dedicated to your job, and who goes out of your way to help others, you will greatly benefit yourself in your journey to success. Conversely, if you develop a reputation for being difficult to deal with, or for having a bad attitude, this will negatively impact your life. Having a poor reputation will only make your road to success more bumpy. Therefore, always think carefully about the image and personality you convey now. Are you genuinely friendly and outgoing? What do you think people say about you behind your back? What do your superiors at work think of you? What could you change about your personality to improve how others perceive you?
If you read the stories of every successful people, you will find that they all have their very own type of personality. However, all of their personalities are somewhat positive. What I mean here is, they possessed positive personality. Let me ask you this question, are you willing to do business with someone who has a bad reputation? The answer is obvious. Now, don’t let your personality determine your success. Instead, you should be the one that mange your personality. If your friends think that you have bad personality, then change it from now on.
8. Poor Organization and Time Management Skills
There are many reasons why people who are qualified to fill the job they are hired for do not meet the responsibilities of their job. Having poor time management or organizational skills is one such reason. It can have a strong negative impact on your journey to success as well as your personal life. After all, if you find yourself working 12 or 14 hour work days, simply because you are unable to complete your work-related responsibilities in a traditional eight hour work day, your personal life will suffer. How much time in a typical day do you spend doing unimportant tasks? Do you find yourself unable to stay focused on important tasks at hand? Are you always running late for appointments or missing deadlines? If you could free up 2 or 3 hours a day, how would you spend that time?
Simply by learning how to better organize your life and improve the way you manage your time, you could easily wind up being able to accomplish more and reduce the stress in your life. If every moment that you are awake is dedicated to playing ‘catch up’ at work or in your personal life, finding time to get ahead will be extremely difficult. Learning how to better organize and manage your time and adopt a more organized approach to the way you do things require only a little bit of new knowledge. The key to achieve this is commitment in changing your habits on how you deal with your time.
9. Overwhelmed and Confused About What You Really Want in Life
Unless you know exactly what it is you are trying to achieve, why you are doing what you are doing, and have an action plan in place, accomplishing anything significant will be difficult because you will have little focus and direction, plus no deadlines to meet or specific objectives to accomplish. Trying to accomplish too much, too fast is counterproductive, just as not knowing what you are trying to accomplish will make your life less focused. Simply by reading and brainstorming all the posts in this blog, you will be able to find out more about what you really want to achieve in your life.
In fact, there are studies shown that the main problem most people did not achieve what they want in their life is because they do not even know what they want to achieve out in their life. If you do not know what you want in your life, you will be just like a lost sheep, you are dangling in nowhere and you will be following the crowd to wherever it is.
10. Religious Beliefs
Last but not least, religious belief is also one of the common obstacles in your road to success. Just as you encounter conflicts between your career and your personal life, you might encounter conflicts with your spiritual beliefs. No matter what your religious beliefs are, it is important to adhere to those values, morals and lessons that your faith has taught you. You should make time to fulfill your spiritual needs to the degree that they are important to you. If you have questions about how your religious or spiritual beliefs can or should incorporated into your personality and or your professional life, seek out the guidance of a religious leader.
Your spiritual beliefs can be a tremendous source of motivation, hope and internal strength, so it is important to achieve a balance and discover how to use your faith to help you achieve success rather than living with a spiritual conflict.
So these are the top 10 common obstacles blocking your road to success. I really hope that you learn something from this post. If you find out that one of the obstacle mentioned in this post is what you are currently facing, take action step to solve it immediately. It is your future, it is the success that you want, I’m just helping you to find out what you want and how I can inspire you to your success.
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Sunday, September 7th, 2008
Obstacle
You know, a lot of people want to be successful, unfortunately, most of them did not achieve what they want in their life. It is always easy to look at your life and blame someone else or something that is out of your control for things that are not going well in your life. Likewise, when one of your goals cannot be achieved, it is easy to look at the obstacles that are in your way and blame them for your lack of success.
Let’s face it, in your road to success, there must be obstacles that are going to pull you down. You know it very well that the road to success if not an easy one and it is a bumpy one. Therefore, you must always to ready for all these. However, once you learned to confront and overcome these challenges, achieving success will be much easier. Taking responsibility for your own destiny is critical for achieving success, which means no longer blaming other people for things you are unable to accomplish.
So what types of things are holding you back from achieving your true potential and making your dreams become a reality? The following list includes some of the most common obstacles people like you, who are striving for success, are forced to face each and everyday.
I hope that after going through this list of obstacles, you will be able to help yourself to start thinking about what may be holding you back and offers some possible solutions.
1. Lack of Money
I think this is the most common obstacles that block most people in their journey to success. Many people thought that it requires money to make money. I know that it is true that if you don’t have the money, the chances for you to make more money will be greatly reduced. However, this is simply not the case most of the time. In fact, almost every successful people start their journey with no money at all. They keep coming up with strategies and force themselves to think out of the box to come up with the necessary money to grow their business. Look at Richard Branson, Bill Gates, Warren Buffett and more. All of them achieved their fortune because THEY ARE LACK OF MONEY.
It is the lack of money and the desire to earn more that actually drive them to achieve such a great success in their life. The problem with most people is that they take this lack of money as an excuse and obstacle in their life. If you want to break this belief, all you need to do is to read more books about how successful people achieve their wealth, and I believe that this will open your eyes and thus break this myth in your mind. Remember, it takes no money to make money. Don’t let this obstacle block you on your road to success!
2. The Lack of Motivation and Drive
Another common obstacles most people face in their life is the lack of motivation and drive. Developing a set of ambitious goals is one thing, but having the drive, motivation and determination to follow through and work toward making your goals a reality is entirely different. Most people spend their life day to day, being miserable, yet they are unwilling to do something to bring about a positive change. I hope that after you read this, if you are living a mediocre life, having a lot of stress, feeling unmotivated all the time, you will start to decide to change your life for the better. Different people have different motivational factors. Therefore, it is very important to find out what you really like to do in your life that will motivate you all the way.
If you are doing something you have a passion for, chances are your passion will naturally drive you. Knowing what motivates you and never losing sight of what you are trying to accomplish will definitely help you stick to your action plans and stay motivated. One of the ways to find out what really motivates you is by asking yourself this question, “why do you want to achieve success in your life?” This is because it is the reason behind that will drive you. If the reason for you to achieve something in your life is not strong enough, you will procrastinate, lose faith, feel unmotivated and give up very soon. So find out why you want to achieve something in your life so badly, and you will definitely achieve it.
3. Lack of Education
For some people, a lack of skills, education or experience prevents them from moving their life forward. If one of your goals is to a professional senior vice president in your company, but in order to reach this level you will need to earn an MBA, then going back to school to pursue this degree is a definitely an obstacle for you. Just like if you want to start your own business but you do not studied business in school. Instead, you took pharmacy in school last time. So do you think that this is an obstacle for you? It is an obstacle, but still there will be ways for you to solve this. Every problem created must have a solution for it. It is just depends on you on how you manage to solve it. And for most people, they will choose to give up and give lousy excuses.
Successful people will not do this. Successful people will take it as a challenge and find ways to overcome it. Think about it, Wright Brothers are not engineer, they were bicycle repairman but still they successfully invented airplane! How is this possible? Is education an obstacle for you? Decide for yourself right now that you will do whatever it takes to achieve your goals in your life. Successful people were not born, they are made. It is what you do that will determine your success. Education, skill, or talent must not be an obstacle in your journey to success. Read more, learn more and constantly improve yourself to break this myth.
4. The Lack of Focus Relating to Your Goals
Many people go through their daily routine at work or at home never really think about their long-term goals. As a result, they lose focus on where they are going or what goals they are hoping to achieve. Without developing a focus and knowing exactly what you are trying to accomplish, and why, your ability to accomplish anything significantly is greatly diminished. Once you have your goals established and you develop your action plan, do not allow yourself to become sidetracked or lose focus. This too will take dedication, motivation and discipline, but the results will be worthwhile.
Needless to say, if you want to learn more about how to set and achieve your goals, you definitely MUST visit this link, Goal Setting.
Here are some questions that you can continuously ask yourself to keep yourself focus:
- What is the ultimate outcome you are trying to achieve? How you go about achieving an outcome is far less important that actually achieving it. It will often become necessary to modify your action plan when trying to achieve a goal. Your long-term goals are the key that will keep you focus in your life. So make sure you set long-term goals and keep reviewing them all the time.
- What is the purpose behind the goal toward which you are working? Find out the reason that you want to achieve your goal. Your reason is the driving force that will keep you going.
- What action need to be taken in order to achieve your goals? Keep updating and reviewing your strategies everyday, every week or every month.
There are a lot of ways you can do to keep you focus in achieving what you want i your life. Keep yourself staying motivated all the time so that you will take action to keep you staying focused toward your goals. One of the best ways to do so, it to read my blog often… ^_^
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Sunday, September 7th, 2008
What you’re about to learn may seem totally contrary to what many well known self help “gurus” have told you for years! But it’s all based on solid scientific research!
As a success-seeker, you’ve have probably already read many success-oriented books, and likely also have a collection or two of success CDs.
Here’s something you need to know: If you have not yet achieved your goal, YOU are not a failure. It’s the books and CDs that have failed you. Here’s why:
Becoming a success by reading “about” success is like trying to learn how to swim by reading a book “about” swimming. Such theory is just that - theory!
We now know from quantum science and modern neuroscience that we truly DO create our own reality with our thoughts. But just how does this work, you might wonder?
Let’s take a look…
Thoughts Have Physical Reality
Quantum physics has clearly established that everything is basically energy in motion. Your automobile, the walls of your office, your desk, the clothing on your body, your computer – everything is simply energy on the most basic level.
Thought is an interesting phenomenon, and is the same energy in motion. You can compare your thoughts to the sparks rising from a campfire. For although your thoughts contain the essence and potential power of the fire – they exist only briefly, then simply dissipate.
Because a thought lasts only a few second, you may think that a single thought has little power. But here’s where the power of mental focus and repetition enter in: A thought that is repeated with intense focus becomes concentrated mental power – just as sunlight can create fire when focused through a magnifying glass.
The more often a focused thought is repeated, the more energy and power it generates. This is not theory – it’s based on the fact that such a thought creates thousands of new neural connections in the brain.
The Brain Electric
Your brain is basically an electrochemical organ. It uses tiny electrical impulses (brainwaves) to produce and express your mental experiences.
The electrical energy produced by your neurons (brain cells) travels in waves of “on-off” electrical energy. These tiny electrical waves are known as brainwaves.
Some amazing things occur if you learn to control your brainwaves. You can learn to actually create the mental patterns of such super-achievers as self-made millionaires and top competitive athletes and performers.
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Saturday, September 6th, 2008
It’s supprising to know a friend of mine earn 5 figures USD a month just through 5 blogs of his. Blogging has become a big business now. The good thing is, you just need to write about things you love and get paid for it. Blogging is new and most people dont know how can blogging creates serious strem of income yet.
You can click on the button pay-per-post at the right of this blog, thats one way how can you earn money through your blog. If you have millionaire’s mind, you can see opportunities all around you.
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Friday, September 5th, 2008
This is a cool question, what do you prefer? Cash or account balance? If you ask me, I believe cash is the king. The aura and the spirit holding cash is very exciting. My bank really mad at me when I play around with cash (witdraws and deposits) few times a week. I did hold a million dollar, it was the most precious moment of my life.
The spirit of a million dollars is very strong, even I lost the million I had, I never give up to touch, hold and hug my million dollars again. My inner world creates my outer world. I have advantage in visualizing how much/heavy a million dollars really are. I wont let the visualization faded before i get my next millions.
My Kids Love cash
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