10 Reasons You Aren’t As Successful As You Should Be

You are not as successful as you should really be. You have the full potential to make it. If you are breathing today and in good health, give thanks and know that you can make it. You can turn your dreams into reality. You should do away with things that push you away from your dreams if you really want to make it in life.
Sometimes, you may wonder why you are not succeeding in your missions in life despite having given your best in your area of operation. There is a lot that you should do for you to succeed, which you might not be doing at all or the right way. I have compiled 10 real reasons that prevent you from being as successful as you should really be. It is quite a long article but really helpful. Addressing these issues ASAP will definitely and immediately lead your way to success.

1) Lack of proper planning

This is the first thing that prevents many people from attaining their full success. In any work or activity, you should have a good plan which clearly defines what you intend do when, how, with what materials or machinery as well as your outcome expectations. This helps you to organize your daily time and minimize time wastage.

Making sure you follow your plan helps you achieve your daily goals that are parts of your future dream, and thereby higher possibility of great success.

2) Laziness

You might also find out that you have been lazy either/both in field work and thinking. Laziness prevents you from following your plan. It hinders you from meeting your daily goals and as a result, you fail to attain your long-term goals. This makes you to be less successful than you really should.

You should try to avoid laziness by making sure you are in good health. Constantly search for motivations and inspirations to boost your mood when you feel blue. Do the best you can in everything you do. Work hard and you will make it.

3) Fear

May be you fear change or fear addressing an issue thinking that you can’t succeed. There is nothing to fear in this world. Most people have made it, and you should be one of them. Those who make it do a lot of sacrifice and take numerous risks when solving issues affecting them and have courage to make the change they want.

You should never fear change; fear being in the same position you are now coming next year. Eliminate fear, and you will have made a great step towards our goals.

4) No self-belief

Another thing, you probably don’t believe in yourself. You don’t believe that you can make it. You want change but don’t believe that you can bring the change you want. You fail to believe that you have what it takes to reach your dreams. This should not be you!

You should always believe in yourself, have faith that you have what it takes, and utilize your full potential energy and mind. Because for sure, you have the ability to do whatever any other person can do, and you can do even better. Believe in yourself, dedicate your all and you will succeed in life.

5) No goals

Also, you may be lacking well defined goals that you intend to reach. This means that you have no goals and/or objectives to meet and therefore, you will have to remain in the same position in your whole life.
My advice here is, make sure you set clear goals both short-term and long-term. Set long-term goals up to 5 years or even more, and then break them into yearly goals, semi-year, quarterly, monthly, weekly, down to daily goals. All are important to give you daily missions that should never go unaccomplished. They all constitute to your future life goals and dreams.

If u can achieve the goals you’ve set, then you can be successful. Remember to set no limit for your goals!

6) More distractions

As you do your daily activities, there may be more distractions that hinder your productivity. Continuous phone calls from friends and family, unnecessary noise around your working area, unnecessary movements, addictive drugs and alcohol (that require you to use them more often even when working), among other things may distract you from effectively doing what you were supposed to.

You should put your phone silent or off when working and get back to those who tried to call you later after completing your work. Get a conducive working environment and stop using the addictive drugs (they also deteriorate your health- Quit them, it’s never too late).

If you can avoid distractions and concentrate on your work, you will absolutely witness success in life.

7) Thinking small

Why do you limit your thinking? Don’t you know that you can never use up your mind? Your mind is so strong to think, imagine and visualize great things in life. Never limit your thinking. Note: your only limitation is your imagination.

Use your meditation wisely; think big things and work to make them real. Think wisely when approaching every problem along your way. You may find yourself in a place no one has ever been and you will succeed in life.

8) Insufficient knowledge

At the same time, you may be lacking sufficient knowledge on your dream topic. You might be using outdated techniques at work, which may lower your productivity, efficiency and effectiveness. What should you do?

Do a thorough research on your dream topic to see how other people with similar dream are doing. Associate yourself with those who have similar goals as yours. Learn what they have done and analyze it. You can do this by reading books, novels, magazines, blog posts, watching movies, among other ways. But make sure you constantly search for new knowledge and information regarding your dream concerns.
Then, identify whether there is something that has not been done and base your work on filling this gap. This raises your probability of achieving the life goals and dreams.

9) Thinking it’s impossible

At one point, you might think that whatever your mind conceived is not possible. Such thoughts come to corrupt your mind and hinder you from taking the necessary activities headed at attaining your dreams.
However, you should have great faith in yourself and believe that everything is possible when done at the right time, with the right materials, in the right techniques and for the right purpose. Do whatever you can and success will find its way in your life.

10) Less focus

FOCUS means – Follow One Course Until Success. May be you are not putting all your focus towards achieving your set goals. For you to succeed, you should make sure that you direct all your dedication, concentration and focus towards attaining your dream.

Do those activities that only lead you to accomplish your missions and reaching your goals. Make sure you Follow One Course Until Success and you will make it.

Having looked at the things that prevent you from succeeding as you should be, now it’s upon you. Take the necessary steps, give your best and work hard. Never give up in whatever you do. Waste no time, believe in yourself and you will definitely make it. You will succeed the way you were meant to and will live a happy life in this world.

That’s it!

What happened to prevent you from succeeding as you should be? How did you address it? Share your opinion on the comment form below. Thanks a lot!

13 Scientifically-Proven Ways to Achieve Life Success & Desires

In life, everyone needs to success and thus directs all their energy towards achieving their success. Success simply means achieving the set goals. However, most people do not know what to do and how to do it for them to have a successful life. Here are thirteen simple ways that you can use to achieve success in life.

Best tips for success in life

1) Have a positive attitude.

When you have a positive attitude, you will look at all situations as positive. Even the negative ones, you’ll see some positivity in it and take the situation to your advantage. This helps you address the issue on board in a positive way and thus, positive results will be witnessed. Do not look at life situations in a negative way. Instead, take them as stepping stones to lead you towards your success.

2) Set your goals.

Setting your goals is the first step that gives you a direction as they give you a predetermined destiny of where you want to reach. It’s much wise to set goals that are achievable and realistic, so that they won’t make you give up when you are just half-way. At the same time, your goals should have a time limit set. Set goals with reasonable time limit for example monthly, quarterly, half-year, full year for short-term goals and long-term goals may be set up to more than five years. When you have your goals set, you will be able to direct your energy, time and resources towards achieving those goals. Goals give you a mission.

3) Make a plan for your activities.

Your plan will include the activities you wish to do that are directed by your goals. Dedicate enough time to every single task and ensure you finish it within the allocated time. If you strictly follow your plan, you will always be finishing your activities in time. This will help you to achieve your set goals within the time set for each goal and thus, you are most likely to succeed in your mission and life.

4) Do one task at a time.

Mixing many tasks at a time will lead to ineffectiveness in all the tasks involved. This will waste a lot of your precious time that you would be using to accomplish your mission, which is to achieve your goals. Concentrate on doing one task at a time and be sure to do it as perfectly as you can. Then do the next task on your task-list. This will help you minimize time wastage and therefore, you will witness more productivity and success in due course.

5) Always be highly motivated.

Don’t give up so soon.

Being motivated means your interest is stimulated towards a given direction. Self-motivation assists you to do everything you have to in order to achieve your success. It helps you do the tasks you have identified in the plan in a happier way and with no wastage of time. Be motivated towards achieving your set goals and never give up in whatever you do. Remember, behind every successful person there are lots of unsuccessful years. Search for motivations and inspirations from everywhere; books, quotes, internet, etc.

6) Develop a positive stress for your future goals.

This will always keep your mind and concentration directed towards achieving your set goals. It will make you gather all relevant information and ideas related to your goals. In addition, it will help you ensure proper time management with less or no wastage. With the ideas & information you have gathered plus proper time management, you will end up stepping closer to your goals and hence success.

7) Take risks.

Always be prepared to take risks in activities and ideas that can positively affect your life. Never let fear of risk overtake you, rather, take the risk and you might find yourself up the ladder. Fearing risks will make you fear implementing any idea and therefore, fewer opportunities for success. Take risks, even if you fail, you will have learnt one way not to do it again. So you will try other methods different from the one that failed. And it is not always that you fail on something positive you risked on.

8) Read many books.

Keep reading and searching for new knowledge!

There are many books, magazines and novels out there, which contain stories of successful people in the world. Reading these resources will inspire and motivate you towards achieving your dream. At the same time, you can borrow some ideas or techniques that you can apply in life and end up increasing and improving your performance. This will eventually lead you to success in life.

9) Ensure regular exercise.

Regular body exercise helps your body cells to be active. Even a simple 10-15 minutes exercise adds a lot in life as it helps you relax your mind and body. With a fresh mind and body, you will be active in your activities and your productivity & effectiveness will be high. At the same time, you will be able to make right decisions with your fresh mind and this can lead you to succeed in your life goals. You can do some simple press-ups, jogging, or even football.

10) Have Self-belief.

Always believe in yourself. Believe that you have the ability reach your goals and never lose hope. Believe that you will make it and for sure, you will. As long as you believe in yourself and in achievement of your goals, you will input all your effort towards achieving them. Add your expertise in doing your tasks and this will help you to produce more and more leading you to success.

11) Be open-minded and up-to-date.

Let your mind be open to new information and ideas as you ensure you are updated with the current trends in your field of concern. If there is a new product in the market of your interest, be the first to know and take it as an opportunity. You create a new product similar to the one you saw, or if you are a businessperson, you can get some for your shop and avail them to your customers. In case of new methods of work, you will be among the firsts to know and can implement if found it good. This can lead you to success. Otherwise, you will be outdated in the market and make fewer sales and hence, failure and losses will be your results.

12) Celebrate your success.

When you have succeeded in one goal, it is wise to set some time apart and celebrate whether alone or with some friends or family. After all, why are you working so hard to succeed? It’s because you want to enjoy life in the future and future starts from next minute. You see even in employments when some goals are achieved, there is a small celebration with the employees to appreciate and motivate them. Appreciating yourself keeps you motivated to proceed to the next goals.

13) Put your Creator first.

In all you do, remember to give thanks to your creator (God) for all He has done for you. Pray Him to help you and guide your thinking & activities towards achieving the goals you have set. Try to do good always so that the Most High can hear and answer your prayers. With Him leading you, you will definitely end up achieving your goals and succeeding in this life.
With those several points above, I believe that you and I will do the necessary to achieve our goals and succeed in this life. We will make it in the power of the Most High. And once we make it, we shall remember to share with our brothers and sisters who are in need.
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A step-by-step guide to Help You Excel in Your Career

Many people do not know what exactly to do to succeed in their career. It’s not an easy task to climb up the ladder, but it all starts with you. You start by evaluating yourself, and then set goals with strategies to meet them. It takes self-determination and dedication to meet your goals.
Growth and success is a result of hard work (in activities) and there is no development physically or intellectually without effort; and effort means work. So the greatest role to play in order to succeed in everything you do is inputting the greatest effort in your area of concern and soon you will realize the progress.
There are five steps which foster the process of career success. Following these steps is a wise decision that will lead you to what you’ve been looking for, which is success.

 1) Evaluate your Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats (SWOTs).

This is the very first step to take in order to succeed. It means assessing yourself to realize what you have and what you don’t have. It is examining your Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats (SWOTs) that surround you. By this, you get to know what you can do and your dis-functionalities which may slow down your progress.
You could find out that you have not been planning the right way, or you have been wasting a lot of time doing less-meaningful things away from your vision. This calls you to sharpen and fully utilize your strengths as you improve your weaknesses.
At the same time, you need to be aware of the opportunities around you and see if you can be able to create one for yourself. Keep searching for available opportunities as you brainstorm and think outside the box to come up with new activities to engage in, that can possibly lead you to success.
Additionally, awareness of the potential threats present in your area of interest helps you to think and plan on methods to face or neutralize them in case they occur. This way, you increase your focus and objectivity. When you have fully evaluated your SWOTs, you can then proceed to the next step, which is goal-setting.

 2) Set your goals.

This is the time for setting your desired results for your activities. Setting goals and objectives helps you to direct all (or most of) your efforts and resources towards achieving the goal. Whether you work in affiliate marketing, a business person or any other industry, your target should be achievable and realistic.
At the same time, you should set them as high as you can imagine so that if you don’t reach them, at least you will be near and will have achieved something good. As they say, ‘land to the stars if you don’t reach the sun and moon’.
As you do this, you need to consider all possible pre-defined social, political and economic issues which may pull you back or hinder you from achieving your goals, either directly or indirectly. Also, you need to set the time schedule required to achieve your goals. This helps you to remain focused and determined as you perform your activities because you won’t want to be caught by time. You can set short-time goals such as weekly, monthly, quarterly, half or one full year goals, or long-term goals that might go for several years.
Goal-setting is a very crucial step in every development which creates basis for the activities for the activities required in order to succeed. Then, proceed to the next step.

3) Strategize (Plan).

Now, you need to plan on the methods that you require to use in order to achieve your set goals and objectives. It’s wise to identify several methods or activities which could possibly lead you to succeed in your area of concern. Consider their availability and cost, and then go for the cheapest and one that you think you are more convenient with.
Set plans on each activity with the time required to accomplish it. Plan your work and work your plans. Strategize on how your activities follow each other and also come up with ways to improve them as you proceed.
Also, consider the potential threats that may arise as you progress and plan on how to face them in case they happen.  When you have chosen the method best suitable for you, then you can go ahead and identify the resources you need in the fourth step.

4) Identify the resources.

This starts with identifying the resources needed to achieve the set goal, as well as those available to you. Get to know all materials that you may require for you to achieve the goals that you’ve set. Examine their cost and the availability or sources from which you can get them. Again, go for the ones that you can afford. But do not stress yourself for lacking the reach of these resources. Use the ones that are available and those that will not leave you hungry.
Take this note;- you could get assistance from family, friends or any other source, but do not go for a loan when you have not fully analyzed or evaluated your project and have enough confidence that it will be a success. Loans can make you bankrupt in several hours. When you are done with all these, now align the resources with the plan in the next step.

5) Alignment.

This is the last step that will lead you to achieving what you ought to. Implement the strategies you’ve set in step 3 above using the resources that you identified in the previous step. This is the actual work now.
Engage in the activities you identified previously being keener on time management which happens to be the major cause of failure of a well-planned project. Make sure you do not harm anyone through whatever you might be doing. Stay focused and determined to achieve your set goals. Neglect those activities that push you against your vision.
In case of pessimistic friends, never pay attention to them as you may end up wasting a lot of precious time and this would possibly lead you to failure. Alignment of the strategies and resources with a great focus on the set goals and objectives will definitely impart great success to you.
And when you have achieved what you wished/planned for, do not be selfish; remember you can’t live in this world alone. So, share with those who need it the most. Do not let someone suffer when you know you can help. This makes your life more meaningful as a human and impresses our creator, who in turn blesses you more and more. Be happy with what you have achieved and share with those who do not have- even if it’s an idea.

 In Conclusion, 

The one and only addition to the above is putting your creator first. God is our creator and praying, worshiping and praising Him are great ways to say thank you to Him. He sees us and knows what we are composing in our minds. And I suppose that He is the source of the positive ideas in our minds. He helps us to cope with problems and overcome threats surrounding us. I found it very wise to give thanks, glory and praise Him always and I believe He is always with me even in difficult times. Only He has the capability of blessing who do positive things and curse/punish those who do not obey His commands. So, stay positive and never harm others with your actions.
This way, you will find yourself in places you never even dreamt of. You will succeed in whatever you do. Remember, what your mind can conceive, you can achieve it. Stay determined, focused, hardworking and positive. You will never regret in life.
I like to see you succeed in life as you inspire and awaken those around you. Sharing this post is a way of inspiring our beloved brothers and sisters, for a better tomorrow. Also, your comments and/or queries are warmly welcomed.
Thank you and May God bless you as you apply this in your lives.
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