What Is Holding You Back From Achieving Success?

You have set your goal and have started putting forth the efforts required to achieve it. You review your efforts periodically to ensure that everything is in order. According to you, everything is moving as you have planned. You are now half-way through in your journey. Suddenly, you have a nagging feeling that there is a loss of steam or things are not moving at the pace as before. You are obviously upset. What may be the reasons? What is holding you back from achieving the success you have been longing for and cherishing in your bosom? Let us find out. 

The reasons may be:

1. After reaching a certain point, you have started indulging in what is known as "self-sabotage." True, you have put in place proper systems. But there is some lacuna due to which your plans fall through. You commit avoidable mistakes and these may decelerate the pace of your journey.

2. Not listening to the advice of experts in your field may be another reason for the retardation of your journey. This means you are closed-minded and not receptive to ideas, suggestions, and insights experts or those who have already succeeded have to offer. Perhaps, it is your ego that prevents you from embracing their suggestions or you may think that the strategies they have used may not be suitable for you. You have not realized the fact that no one is asking you to blindly follow, fully replicate the strategies followed by these people, or emulate their ways without dilution. You can tweak them appropriately, fine-tune them, or even modify them so as to make them work for you. Only if you are ready to listen to suggestions, will you know the mistakes you are committing. Otherwise, you will be staring at stagnation or failure after failure in the steps you are taking during the course of your journey.

3. Not taking the right action at the right time may cause several hurdles along your path. To put it differently, getting into the action mode is important for achieving success. Contrary to your belief that the systems you have put in place will take care of themselves, your assumption that the systems will automatically take you towards victory is nothing but a daydream. It is high time you wake up from your slumber because reviewing your systems as well as your progress periodically is very important. You must make corrections if you find that the systems are faulty or if they need improvements. You cannot afford to delay these actions. Remember the words of Albert Einstein who said, “Vision without action is hallucination.” Also remember, "complacency kills" growth and motivation.

4. Delaying making decisions is a major obstacle that gets in your way of achieving success. Never forget the fact that it is a competitive world out there. If you delay your decisions, your competitors will out-smart you easily and you will remain wherever you are without moving an inch further. So, develop the habit of making quick decisions. You can always make corrections if issues confront you along your way. But not making or delaying decisions may be an expensive mistake.

5. Not communicating in the right manner can be disastrous for your growth. Whether you are an entrepreneur or an employee, or if you have set your goal in any other field, you should communicate effectively in order to succeed. If you are poor in this aspect, it will spell doom to your aspirations. But you need not lose heart. You can develop your communication skills. You have to just make up your mind to learn and imbibe the skills.

The above can be holding you back from achieving success. You have to eliminate these hurdles. Once you show the exit to these hurdles, you can be certain of seeing a stunning acceleration in your success journey.