These 3 Things Are Holding You Back From Success

“Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.” — Kierkegaard

A year can pass by so fast. If you reflect on the past 12 months, have you made the progress you were hoping you’d make? What’s different about your life now compared to a year ago?

Some might respond with: “I feel happy with my progress.” But if you listen, you’ll hear in their voice that they’ve grown to accept their life — it is what it is.

Other people might respond with frustration and express that they aren’t where they want to be. They want more for their life but can’t seem to get traction.

If you resonate with this then you might lack these three crucial ingredients:

In five years, what do you want your life to look like? Where do you want to be in your career, your finances, your relationships, and your personal growth?

Too many people pursue power, money, and fame and end up in a rehab facility 10–20 years later; a successful executive who is unfulfilled; or a wantrepreneur who can’t pay their bills and is at home in their parents’ basement at 33 years old.

I like the word trajectory. In this case, it is not a linear path between point A and point B. We need to place bumpers up in our lives to keep funneling us toward a life of purpose and meaning.

The most important thing we could do is get clear on our vision of what we want our lives to look like. You and I have to remember that hope is not a strategy for achievement.

For us to achieve what we want, we have to focus on the process that will lead to the results we desire.

Brendon Burchard in his book High Performance Habits, says this about high performers:

The question they ask is less often “Who am I and what am I good at?” and more often “What is required to be of service here, and how can I grow into that or lead others to deliver that?”

In other words, spend your time and energy toward what will move you forward. To accomplish your goals, what skills and abilities must you develop and what actions will lead to the results you want?

The goal is to become obsessed with prolific production.

Prolific production depends on our abilities to learn where we get the most return for our time and effort.

It’s a formula of subtraction where only the most critical to our success remains and that is what we dedicate our focus toward.

We all have limited time. Yes, I know, we all get 24 hours in our day. This self-help maxim, however, can be taken too far.

Some of us have families, young children, demanding careers, and long-term passions we want to pursue. We also need to sleep and maintain a healthy lifestyle.

Be careful how you define success as there are a lot of areas at stake. This is why we have to start with a vision of what is most important.

This is also why it becomes all the more critical to get clear on a process of prolific production.

This one thing will be hard work and uncomfortable. You won’t “feel” like doing it. But if you can learn to stay at this one thing for a period of time you have the greatest shot at setting yourself up for success.

Stay focused on this one thing until it is complete. Don’t start anything else until you’ve accomplished your immediate next step.

This is hard because it’s only a matter of time before fear, doubt, and discomfort causes you to second guess what you are doing.

If there is one thing that will slow you down and keep you from finishing its fear and doubt.

We are afraid of missing out, of what others will think of us, and of failing. We doubt our abilities. We see ourselves as an imposter and we talk ourselves out of the process we set out to follow.

Accomplishing anything great requires commitment and focus. But when we are afraid that there might be something better out there, we never really commit to what we set out to do. Therefore, we fail.

We worry so much of meeting other people’s expectations that we don’t live from our values and instead adhere to what we think we are supposed to value.

Failure is the scariest of them all. What then? Will we be able to recover, or does it define us as once a failure always a failure?

They are all lies we tell ourselves that prevent us from making progress toward what we want.

If you are struggling to make progress in your life evaluate how you are doing in these three areas.

Are you clear on your values, your purpose, and what you want success to look like?

Have you decided on a process of prolific production where you are putting your time and energy toward what creates the results you are looking for?

What about fear and doubt? How are the voices in your head talking you out of these things?

Take a hard look at your life. Are you where you want to be? Have you made the progress this past year? If so, then keep going. If not, take time to evaluate and change that which is holding you back.

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