Again, if you want to achieve exceptional results in your life, then you will need to design your life, have a clear plan of what you want in life, only then you can achieve what you want. Success rarely happens by chance, we have learned all these, which you can also read in my blog, The Power of Dreams.

If setting goals is so crucial for us to achieve a successful and fulfilling future, then why so many people fail to do it? Why are so many people allowing their life to pull them in all directions? There are a few reasons, and for me, these are the 5 reasons that prevent most people from designing their life, their destiny:

1. Limiting Belief

The first thing that holds most people back from setting goals are their limiting beliefs. Many people only dream about what they would love to have. However, when it comes to committing to a specific target and plan, they don’t even bother. Something inside them is telling them “It is impossible, there is no way I can do it”.

You know that these are nothing but limiting beliefs. Unless we break these past generalizations about ourselves, we will never dare to design goals that drive us to the next level. Thinking back, 50 years ago, if you told people that you want to create something that can connect people from all over the world, with a size of your palm, which can also be used to take pictures and play music, people will say that you are crazy.

This thing is now a reality, it is called your mobile phone. 50 years ago it is a myth, but now, it is a reality. So you see, what you have in your mind is just beliefs, and beliefs are never real, they are real only to you. It is the same when people say that it is impossible to reach the moon. Read this, Your Beliefs Determine Your Success.

2. They Don’t Know What They Want

Yes, for most people, they don’t even know what they want in their life. Actually, it is not that people don’t know what they want. What truly happens is that most people stopped daring to dreams of what they wanted. When we are kids, we often had fantasies and dreams about what we wanted to have and be when we grow up.

However, as we went through life, we met with so many failures and disappointments that our rationale, critical mind has forbidden us to continue to day dreaming anymore. As a result, our creative juices and deflate our passion.

We need to learn how to unlock our imagination and set our creative minds free, free of fear and inhibitions so we can dream clearly and with growing excitement of what we truly want out of life.

3. Fear of Failure

This fear of failure, of rejection and embarrassment is what probably paralyzes most people from even starting out. Know this, the only one who can tell us that we failed and make us feel bad is… ourselves. Yet, this is how we often shoot ourselves in the foot. The moment we did not achieve what we want, even on our first attempt, we tell ourselves we have failed, and feel really bad.

This is the pain that prevents us from going further, and this goes for the majority of the people. People who constantly set exceptional goal and go for it do so because they define failure differently. They believe that not getting what they had set out for is not failure, but feedback. They don’t feel bad about it at all, they believe that they only fail if they give up.

You can do the same thing for yourself. Let me ask you this, “What would you do if you knew you couldn’t fail?” Would you suddenly go out and do a lot of things you never dared to do? I bet you would. Then why don’t you do it? After all, there is no way you can fail unless you give up. Remember, You Are Not A Barracuda.

4. Addiction to Soft Life

Most people are risk averse because they are addicted to a way of life, a soft life, a cushy life with habits and material comforts they are loathed to change or risk losing. Unless that comfy lifestyle is imminently under threat, they won’t do anything that calls for iron will and discipline.

Setting goals and really going for our goals often means changing habits, sacrificing time spent hanging out with friends. This is why people make half-hearted attempts. As soon as their new path impinges on their old habits, they withdraw.

Remember, there are no shortcuts to success in life. Therefore, always be prepared to make what appears to be sacrifices and, if you do, the rewards will be there waiting for you.

5. Setting Goals Don’t Work

How many of you have tried to set goals, but they didn’t work? Is it true that it did not work? Or it is you that did not work? Remember, setting goals in isolation will not get you what you want. However, they are they first and major key to the Ultimate Success Formula. If you don’t follow up with your goals by developing a strategy, taking action and changing your strategy from feedback, you will not be successful.

Remember, it is not setting goal not working, it is by merely setting goal, you will not get what you want. Goal setting is just something that make you focus in your life, in your direction. You will still need other ingredients like commitment, action, never give up, etc to make your goals come true.

I hope that you are clear now why most people don’t dare to set goals. If you have finally made up your mind and decided to set crazy goals, these are the criteria that your goals must have, The #2 Ingredient For Success.

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Posted on May 4th, 2008 by Shawn
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