3 Possible Things Stand Between You and Achieving Your Goals

Skill
👉 You know what you want to achieve and how to achieve it, but you lack a particular skill required to get there.

Knowledge
😃 You know what you want to achieve but you’re unclear on the ingredients required to produce the outcome.

Consistency
🤷🏼‍♂️ You know exactly what to do, and sometimes you even do it, but not consistently enough to create lasting results.

Usually it’s an overlap of these three. But stripped back, this is what’s happening.

It looks terrifyingly simple when you map it out like this, doesn’t it?

So what’s stopping you?

You might say “nothing” — and that’s cool 😎 — but if you’re not effortlessly cruising towards your goals in every area of life, then something in your brain 🧠 is putting on the brakes.

It might be slowing you down.
It might be demanding huge amounts of effort and energy.
Or it might be stopping you altogether.

The Brakes Look Like This:

Feelings → Too tired, cravings, low energy.
Emotions → Anxiety, overwhelm, anger, frustration, boredom, depression.
Thoughts → “This is too much effort.” “I’m not good enough.” “What if I fail?” “It can’t be this simple.” “It’s different for me.” “They’re the problem.”

In more precise terms:

Your brain has spent your whole life extracting meaning from the environment to help you survive. Some of those meanings were useful at the time. Others were just the clumsy interpretations of a younger version of you who didn’t feel safe.

Those meanings are still running in the background — causing the feelings, emotions, and thoughts that hit the brakes whenever you approach the actions you need to take to reach your goals.

This is all of us. Me included.

If you’re not rapidly moving towards your goals — practising the skill, acquiring the knowledge, or showing up with consistency — the brakes are on.

And honestly… what else could it be? 🤷🏻