Brain Training For Success – Lesson 5.5 – Identify Potential Obstacles

Welcome to Lesson #29 of the Brain Training for Success course!

In the last lesson, we looked at the importance of gathering resources. Without any available resources, you can’t change anything. Though, sometimes, time is the only resource you need.

Obstacles can require additional resources. This is one of the reasons they’re important to identify.

Without any obstacles, achieving your goals and living the best year of your life would be easy. All you’d have to do is make a few decisions.

But it’s not that easy.

Life is full of obstacles that will derail your efforts if you’re not prepared.

And unsuccessful people are easily dissuaded by obstacles.

That’s why you need to identify the obstacles that can stand in your way:

People

Interestingly, the people in your life can be the biggest obstacles you’ll face – because there are very few people in your life that will be 100% supportive of your efforts.

The remainder can directly or indirectly sabotage your efforts.

• Some people will try to help, but do the opposite.
• Some of the people in your life will have the best of intentions, but hinder your efforts. They may caution you to be realistic or remind you of past failures.
• Your overweight spouse might be threatened by your efforts to lose weight.
• Your brother might be upset if you make more money than he does.

Keep your eyes open and pay attention – most people want to see you do well, just not better than they’re doing themselves.

Yourself

We all sabotage ourselves on a regular basis. We do so with our thoughts, habits, beliefs, and fears.

It’s easy to determine if you’re getting in your own way: when you think about your goal, do you feel anything other than excited and enthusiastic?

If so, you’re in danger of being your own worst enemy.

Monitor yourself daily by reviewing your goals and noticing your emotional response.

Any negative feelings about achieving your goal must be managed if you want to be successful.

Your beliefs about yourself can be highly limiting. For example, the belief, “I’m bad with money” will be an obstacle to financial success.

If you identify with being a shy person, your social life will have challenges.

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