10 factors Holding You Back from Achieving Success

There are so many factors that can hold you back from achieving success. Many of them are simple things that people just don’t seem to be doing, but some are a lot more complex.

Here are 10 things that could potentially be holding you back from achieving success.

1. You Fear What People Think

One major thing holding people back from achieving success is fear. You are getting anywhere with what you truly want to do because you are worried what others will have to say about it. Maybe you have friends who would think you are mad to do something so different to they are used to. Yes, there will be people who don’t support you and who think your ideas are beyond possible; but it’s not in their place to say and neither is it yours to listen. You are capable of whatever you believe you are capable of, and if you listen to others and let it get to you, that is when your dreams will crumble.

2. You Have No Discipline

If you do not have the discipline to push through all the boring moments that are guaranteed to arrive at your feet at one point or the other, then you would not make it very far.

3. You Are Afraid of Change

Some people hate change. They get scared by it. They decide that they don’t want to push themselves hard to then end up with something they are unable to handle. With this mentality, you are committing suicide before you even start. Change is good. Change is growth and that is incredibly important if you want to make a success of your life.

4. You Have Great Ideas that You Don’t Put to Action

Having great ideas in your head is excellent, and if you have a big picture of where you want to be then you know what you want to work towards. However, as each day goes by, more ideas in themselves won’t get you any further than you already are. Daily action is what brings you closer, so just get to it NOW.

5. You Are Easily Distracted

This one holds so many people back from achieving success. There won’t be any work being produced if every 30 seconds you decide to check your texts and scroll on social media. Some people like distractions because like I mentioned above, they have no discipline. Eliminate all distractions from around you, so that you can actually get through some solid hard work without continuously stopping.

6. You Lack Creativity

Creativity doesn’t exactly come as easily to some people as it does to others, so what you need to do is improve your creativity, instead of just making do with what you have got. The truth is that anything can spark creativity. Your brain is capable of creativity, you just need to work out how to unlock this creativity of yours. A lot of people will agree that taking your mind off the thing that you need creativity for, and just doing something else different entirely can spark great creativity. Your mind is not doing as much thinking, because you are not making yourself do so, which frees up any thoughts you may have had deep down.

7. You Are Not an Early Bird

Just getting up an hour earlier makes such a difference. That’s one whole hour extra of work that you are putting in and it is definitely needed. It’s not an easy thing at first, waking up an hour earlier but after a while, your body and mind will be used to it, so take the first steps. It’s just habit, you can get out of the old one and into the new one.

8. You Let Failure Cripple You

There’s a reason why so many people that fail first time never try again. It’s absolutely demoralizing to put all your hard work in a project and then witness it fail right in front of your eyes. Failure is not easy to take, but it is what separates the losers from the winners, because the losers will give up completely and the winners will learn from their mistakes and be able to try again implementing what they have learnt.

9. You Are too Impatient

Success takes time. Sometimes impatience can be a good thing, if you can control it. It can force you to work incredibly hard and get things done that others may take quite a while to do. So if you are impatient, be sure to use this wisely with what you do, and not let it get the better of you when it comes to things like the quality of your work, or giving up.

10. You Are Motivated too Much by Money and Not by Passion

Another thing that’s probably holding a lot of people back from achieving success is the fact that their motivated way too much by money, rather than passion and what they actually love. Your struggle towards success will be hardened if there is no love for what you do. Money is only there when you start to become successful.