Three Obstacles to Success

” Most people would like more out of life than they already have. Yet, most of them will never achieve them because they are easily discouraged.
Just think of all the things you have ever wanted to accomplish in your life and why you did not accomplish them. You would probably say you did not try hard enough or you never planned them properly. In fact you are discouraged by three things from being successful than anything else. They are :
       FEAR : Fear of failure is the biggest obstacle to our success. Fear is a negative feeling. It paralyzes us. Most people don’t succeed because they are afraid to fail. They are so afraid to fail; they don’t even try; which creates a vicious cycle since the only time we really fail is when we stop trying ! Do you ever realise that if you keep trying day after day, you are giving yourself an opportunity to be successful, to be the best ? It is only when you stop, you keep away from the opportunity you ever had to be successful.

     OTHERS : This is a big obstacle to success. Others are always ready, willing to tell us “It cannot be done”, and stop us from doing what we want to do in our lives and careers, They would like you to think that they are acting in your best interest, but they are not. In fact they are acting in their own best interest. There are too many people who want to discourage you so that you would not be more successful than they are. The next time one of them tell you “it cannot be done”, tell them, “You are right, you cannot do it, but I can”.

     HABITS : Bad habits constanly stop us to reach our goal. The habit of postponement; laziness; not writing things down and many others. The problem with bad habits is not that we have them; it is how we try to break them. Habits are addictions (drinking, drugs, gambling). Addictions have to be stopped stage by stage. After all, you did not acquire bad habits overnight. What makes you think that you can change them overnight ? Bad habits must be changed a little bit at a time. Mark out one day a week, you would not postpone; make one more sales call than you normally do; wake up five minutes earlier every day.
Do  it for a month, then next month do a little more. There are no overnight successes. Success is a long journey over a road that has many roadblocks. It is the people that go through these roadblocks who become successful. “