3 Possible Things Stand Between You and Achieving Your Goals

Skill

Knowledge

Consistency

👉 You know what you want to achieve, and how to achieve it but you lack the particular skill required to achieve it.

😃 You know what you want to achieve but you are unclear on the ingredients required to produce the desired outcome.

🤷🏼‍♂️ You know exactly what to do and you are sometimes able to do it but you are unable to carry it out consistently enough to produce the desired outcome.

Usually it’s an overlap of these but objectively this is what’s happening.

It looks terrifyingly simple mapped out like this doesn’t it?

So what’s stopping you?

You might say nothing of course which is cool 😎 but if you’re not effortless cruising towards your goals in all areas of life then something in your brain 🧠 is putting on the brakes.

Either significantly slowing you down, causing you to require huge amounts of effort and energy to progress or stopping you all together.

In a wildly abstract (and infuriating) way the things that are in our way are our:

FEELINGS (diverting us away from where we need to go). Too tired, cravings, low energy.

EMOTIONS (too anxious, worried, overwhelm, angry, frustrated, bored, depressed)

THOUGHTS (too much effort, you aren’t good enough, this won’t work, what if you fail, this is too hard, it’s can’t be this simple, it’s different for me, THEY are the problem)

In a more precise way,

across your life your brain has taken meaning from the environment in order to survive.

Some of those meanings might have been useful at the time, some of them just the unskillful interpretations of someone who didn’t feel safe)

Those meanings are still running in the background CAUSING the feelings, emotions and thoughts that causes the brakes to go on when you approach the things you need to in order to achieve your goals.

This is all of us, me included.

If we aren’t rapidly moving in the direction of our goals, practising the skill, acquiring the knowledge or being consistent, then the brakes are on.

What else could it be right? 🤷🏻