10 Reasons Goals Fail

June 22, 2008 on 4:22 pm | In Business Motivations |

1.  Not having a goal.  We encourage you to complete your goals and submit them.  It’s not magical, but has practical applications in terms of remembering and working towards your desires.  It has been said you have 1000% better chance of them coming true if you do this.

2.  Don’t limit yourself.  Most people over-estimate where they will be in one year but far under-estimate where they will be in 10. 

3.  Have a worthwhile goal.  Make an impact.

4.  Let others know what your goals are.  It provides accountability for you and helps them in their own lives.

5.  People have a lack of focus.  Many are jack of all trades and master of none.  We will have to pay the price in full and up front for these goals to be accomplished.  These goals will call for action and we need to be able to work towards higher levels of action as part of our process.  Even if you start with 1 hour a week, work at it diligently as you increase your time.  Some of these goals will take time.  Did you take time to get to this point in your life?

6.  Work on the heart.  You are the type of person who deserves these things.  When you change your thoughts about who you are and what you deserve, you will have an easier time changing your actions.  It works the other way around too.  When you change your actions, you will start to change your belief system about what you can do.

7.  Attitude.  Know you can do it, others have done it.  I will start moving forward.  Have optimism.  You can choose how to see yourself in a better way.  People want to follow someone who has a better view of the future.

8.  Procrastination.  Even successful people struggle with putting things off.  We all do it, strive to do it less.  There are two pains: the pain of discipline, or the pain of regret.  Learn to take action immediately. 

9.  People quit to soon.  How many things never happen because people quit.  All of the successful people have had to persist far far longer than they wanted to.  How would you get away without it?  You will see tough times, but haven’t you already.  Stay glued to information that can help you forge ahead.

10.  Failure to measure.  Many times we don’t have trackable steps.  We need to get our numbers tracked and work them higher as we improve.