Here are some observations of why I believe some people fail at reaching their full potential and how to strategize better at how to succeed in life.
A lot of people make excuses for why they aren’t where they want to be in life today.
I see some common personality traits that hold these people back.
Here are some common problems and fixes that I believe will help to accomplish your goals.
Reasons You May Not Be Succeeding
This is not meant to point the finger at you, but to point out some possible mistakes.
I have personally made many of these mistakes myself.
- You don’t have a long-term plan for success.
- If you have a plan you are not constantly working at it.
- You give up too easily or keep changing your plan.
- Your plan is bad and needs to be changed.
- Your plan doesn’t have milestones to accomplish to get to your end goal.
- You aren’t tracking progress to see how good or bad you are doing at your goal.
- Your plan isn’t realistic time-wise.
- You’re afraid to fail, so you continue make to excuses on why you haven’t reached your goal.
How to Succeed in Life…
Do the OPPOSITE of everything listed above:
- Have a plan for success. Success does not happen by accident. You must know what you want, and create a plan to reach your goal.
- Work at it constantly. Consistency is a must.
- Don’t give up. You only truly fail when you give up.
- Constantly improve your plan so it evolves. Don’t repeat mistakes, learn and improve.
- Set tons of tiny goals to accomplish the overall goal. Nothing great happens overnight.
- Track your progress, and feel great as you accomplish more and more.
- Dream big, but have a realistic timeline.
- Don’t be afraid of failing. Be afraid of not reaching your best potential because you gave up.
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Do you have your own tips on how to succeed in life?
I produce & record & upload new music everyday. I feel sometime that I fail everyday.
Just because I am not being played as much as drake, rick ross,diddy & the other top artist.
I feel that on any given song I am so much better in many ways.
“however” it is almost impossible to compete on their level being a poor unsigned music artist.
I no I have the skills. So I do it for my love of music. And that brings me much joy.
Maybe one day it will happen. But if not I still do what my talent is.
I love post like this. They usually reach me at the times in my life when I need to read them to most. Thanks for posting this.
@TBagg! I’m happy you like the article. I want to do way more like this.
Mark,
Thank you so much for sending this. I have it saved on my bookmark for some time now and listen to this almost every to help me keep moving. I hope you’re doing well.
Again Thank you and hope you have a great day.
Nelson