Recognizing the Biggest Obstacle to Reaching Your Goals – You

Throughout the course of a blogging career, there will be numerous obstacles to your potential success. Some will be technical in nature while others will lie within you and must be addressed in order to move forward in a positive way. Yes, YOU may be the biggest obstacle of all.

Some will choose to ignore the warning signs and continue to operate under a cloud of denial, but sooner or later, you’ll have to get to the recognition phase of your life and finally admit that serious reflection and change must come about.

You see, we’re all creatures of habit and many of those habits become second nature and are carried out without as much as a thought about them. But the fact of the matter is this, some of those habits are bad for your own progress and until such time that this is recognized and addressed, the behavior continues.

We are experts at finding excuses and not many of those excuses will lead back to our own doorsteps, but if we are honest with ourselves the list of obstacles will be easy to recognize. Otherwise, we don’t know that we don’t know. 

Failing to recognize our own obstacles and constraints places a ceiling on our overall performance in life. Traits like stubbornness will always be there to block any potential progress.

Let’s face it, you must stop and do a self-examination, make some adjustments and tune-up your natural ability to fall into the trap of thinking that all is well. We’ll surmise that everything is okay because, “I’m doing what I always do”, and that may well be the problem.

We all know that doing the same thing over and over will never produce a different result, so why do we expect that someday things will be different?

If you drive the long way to work every day, your gasoline mileage will never increase, that’s a fact. You must change your route or change the vehicle, but there must be a change of some sort to realize a move toward the positive.

Now let’s return to that self-examination for a moment. Find yourself some “me” time and quietly reflect upon the following questions;

• Do you have a plan for success?
• Does the plan include a system for measuring progress?
• Do you have clarity on your purpose?
• Do you have the skill level required to accomplish your goal?
• Are you managing your time properly?
• Do you have the level of motivation required to see this through?
• Are you so focused on the end game that you’ve overlooked the plan?
• Have you identified some things that you can do better or differently?
• Have you learned anything about reaching your goals besides the fact that you want to get there?
• Have you taken action on what you’ve learned about reaching your goals?
• Have you really been honest in your assessment of yourself?
• What will you do now, the same thing?

These can be tough to answer for many, as everyone is different and has a different outlook on where they are and where they want to be. But most of these questions will fit into any circumstance and be thought provoking in their nature.

Now I don’t want to come off like some expert with regards to personal development, because I am not, but where do you think these questions have come from?

I’ve made my share of blunders along the road of life and had to ask myself many of these on more than one occasion. Life is all about recognizing what’s going on within you and making the necessary adjustments to better position yourself for tomorrow.

Have you taken time to reflect upon your situation and if so, what tips might you offer to advance one’s progress toward their goals?

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