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8 Reasons Holding you Back from Success

8 Excuses That is Holding your Success

By Jagruti WaghelaPublished 2 years ago 5 min read
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There goes a lot of work and dedication to any attainable goals, but sometimes your constraints come to dead stop your success.

Everyone dreams of accomplishing something in life. And in haste to achieve goals, without considering, people set themselves on the path to success.

It set off a string of disappointments and a lack of required mindset. Success has never condoned any uncompliant behaviour that people couldn't be bothered to change.

When people get hung up on the explanation of their limitation, it holds back desired outcome. To carry through this, you need to overcome all the excuses that somehow drag you backward and make success possible.

1. Leaving Things to the Last Minute

We all have delayed work in our daily life. But the cause of it doesn't always come as laziness. Sometimes people procrastinate for other reasons.

When it comes to achieving our desired goals that need a long-term vision, people often tend to start losing interest halfway through. As the process of completing those tasks is lengthened and needs more of your attention, people lose interest in the vision.

sometimes your aversion to a particular task leads to holding back that task till the last minute.

A study conducted by psychologists at the Carleton University in Ottawa found that procrastination is related to short-term mood repair and emotional regulation. Negative emotions such as fear, frustration, anxiety, and stress can increase procrastination to a certain extent.

Low self-confidence makes people unable to complete required tasks, and it becomes difficult to motivate themself to continue.

2. Indecisiveness

One of the main barriers to your path to success is your indecisiveness.

It is apparent that making decisions for your future is difficult, given your life's structure depends on the choices you make. But, this starts the fear and self-doubt in many individuals.

There are many reasons for indecisive behavior in individuals. It can be the fear of the result. Worrying how your decision might affect or change your current life.

Sometimes, people are uncertain about what they want or have insecure feelings attached to it. Your emotions could cloud your judgment and rational choice-making part.

Most common is the fear of making the wrong decision and suffering the consequences. It is the biggest roadblock, and these reasons slow down your success process till the last moment.

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3. Fragile Self-Esteem

We all fear rejection. It's a part of being a human to fear the unknown.

But the main culprit here is, lacking the right mindset.

Many individuals fail to try to avoid the backlash and negative experiences. They have already made this low self-esteem about themselves, that they are not the right fit, or they are lacking the significant key to steer success.

They conclude by themselves that it isn't for them and quit too soon. Sometimes the fear of rejection is so acute and driven by self-sabotage that individuals start overworking to please everyone and hit burnout.

People undermine their self-value for the evaluation, and negative feedback halts them in their tracks.

4. Doing Things Timidly

When your motives are weak, it doesn't give you the desired strength to drive success.

Laying half-hearted actions and efforts will not give you the wholesome result you desire. Your eagerness to achieve things in a hurry makes your attention control waver and makes your performance poor to some degree.

Lackluster efforts are ushered by a lack of interest and need the intensity of motivation. Also, the control of laziness and lack of concentration over your measures dulls your momentum.

In this, your actions are held responsible, and as a consequence, it always leads to regret.

5. Always Looking for Excuses

People's habit of always looking for excuses has been a long-standing concern, and it is the very reason that keeps you further away from reaching your life goal.

Your lacking commitment to your goals and avoiding responsibility results in failure. Those who make excuses always find circumstances accountable. Their self-limiting beliefs make them turn their back on reality.

Making justification when an opportunity occurs, you will end up losing it, along with the growth and progress that opportunity brings. What's more? This leads to massive regret.

For every opportunity you miss, you will miss the growth and progress that will build skills and talent that contribute to those goals.

6. Refusing to Learn

Successful people always opt for educating themselves when it comes to seeking knowledge.

Knowledge helps you grow problem-solving skills that help you in your process and decision-making.

Any progress you make will be inefficacious when skill and knowledge are missing. You will have restricted room for growth and opportunity. There Is a limit to where your current knowledge will take you before becoming obsolete. To grow continuously, you need to keep learning.

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7. Hate Being Uncomfortable

Success demands unrelenting and ceaseless diligence from individuals.

Sure, being all comfortable and following a regular and unbending course of daily activities is blissful to someone.

Things are predictable to them and don't bring any mental distress. But it does no good to secure your success.

All the long hours of work and late-nighters put people off. And the sense of familiarity and security always draws people into their safe zone and reinforces them to stay.

For success seekers being in their comfort zone is like being stuck in the same spot and never moving forward. Reaching new goals requires new strategies and actions, not the ones you had turn comfortable with.

To pave your road to success, you need to come out of your safe zone and open yourself up to new challenges.

8. Half-Mesures

Most of the world's failures stem from half-measures.

At the start-up state, partial and half-hearted measures can alter your perception of success. Actions taken with overlooked potential and weak measures result in disappointment.

Your passion does not fuel you for longer. With your three-minute enthusiasm for rushing things and achieving goals fast, you run a risk of missing the possible opportunities.

Without gauging everything and measuring possibilities accurately, taking your action into the trade pushes your goal further away.

Last Few Words

Your unrelenting and unwavering dedication to your goal is what makes success possible, but without proper measures, all your consideration is wasted. Learning and implementing the right course of action is a way to continuous growth. So, take the right strategies and map to drive feasible success.

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