What's holding you back?

Hi Nic. My personal roadblocks have been shiny object syndrome and procrastination.

I've been working hard to overcome them lately, and things are DEFINITELY looking up.

Thanks for taking the time to create a product that meets people's needs!

~Darren

It seems like I never have enough time.
Whatever I do, I'm always left with that feeling of "I haven't done enough today".
I guess I wish things were going faster than they are right now... But as long as I'm moving, it's still something, right?

Not having the proper strategy is holding me back.

Hi, Nic: I would say that one of my roadblocks to greater success is a lack of focused focus. I think I try to be too many things and do too many things and as a result, instead of making big progress in one area, I make only small progress in several areas.

I believe this is a stage that many aspiring entrepreneurs go through. We first need to get educated, then experienced, then competent and then focused (if we haven't been focused from the beginning).

For some of us, before we can fine tune our focus, we need to find out what's out there and how to do it. Then we can chose what we most want to do and achieve.

GT

Nic - great question. IMHO you are always your only obstacle!

Nic,

Love your idea....would love to be involved in something like this as this is my area of expertise - mindset. If you haven't launched your WSO yet and would be interested in some help please contact me via Skype or Facebook via the links in my profile. Anyway all the best with your WSO....

For me, I lack confidence to follow through on projects. I usually come up with detailed plans and ideas yet get half-way through them and end up quitting because I see the competition as "better" than me when in fact some are better and others are not.

self discipline and the post above me summarizes it

Every time I sit at my computer to begin to work I get so overwhelmed by the many things I could do but don't completely understand I end up browsing the internet and wasting my time away. Its really frustrating to even type that out.

Great question, for me its the time. I believe strongly in exercising and meditating everyday. Then there are so many shiny objects out there with a million other marketers telling you they have the best method. So I am only studying a few areas of IM now but need to put forth more action.

Negative thinking has hindered alot of my progress, I feel there is nothing more detrimental to success than thinking that you can't even make it

Hi Nic,

For me it's trying to do too many things and not achieving any thing.

I look forward to your WSO :-)

Best Regards,

Coral.

So, summarising the above:

Self-Confidence
Procrastination
Focus (and avoiding bright shiny thing syndrome)/self-dscipline
Time management/Goal Setting
Positive mental attitude

Seem to be the themes to emerge - apologies if I've left anything out, let me know!

Procrastination, distraction and self discipline for me but I'm doing my best to overcome.

Fear of the unknown, financial security

Normally it is just the person itself. All these excuses are just a thing about your confident level.

Time. I still have to work a 9-5 and the 1+ hour drives going to work and home make me lose 11 hours of my workdays.

I have 2 IM businesses I need to focus on (niche websites and comedy videos) and it's tough to decide on which one to work on when I get home.

Nic,

I would add a lack of vision and a burning desire "Why". This often is the underlying cause for many of the other "issues" people have raised in this thread. You see it on the WF, sports, arts, spiritiuality and in all others areas of our lives. It is rarely the brightest, strongest, most attractive or most gifted people who end up achieving success in the endeavours they pursue. It is often everyday people who have created a burning vision or passion so strong for what it is they wanted to achieve in their personal lives and the lives of those they impact with their products or services. Whether we accept it or not, all successful people experience the same challenges raised by WF Forum in your thread. Do you possibly think Richard Branson or Warren Buffet suffer from self doubt, lack of focus and procrastination from time to time. However, the tools and strategies that these people have developed over time allow to mitigate and destroy these obstacles quickly and easily and this separates them for the non-acheivers. Find out the hidden secrets to success and you will open a "pandoras box" to wealth....and it is amazing how simple, quick and easy some of these tools and strategies are to implement.

I thought about it more. I think that a lack of monetary capital is also holding me back.

For me, it's being a perfectionist. I want to make sure that I have all the bases covered. I'm scared of facing something that I don't have an answer to.

Hi Nic,

Not understanding how outsourcing works.

I've always had a hard time just doing. I learn and move forward best when I have someone successful show me step by step how to do what they are doing! Otherwise nothing gets done.

Both confidence and procrastination played parts in the beginning of my career. A little bit of both played havoc on me in the beginning. But as soon as success came my way then everything that was a problem disappeared. The confidence factor that comes into play is a powerful force that will carry anyone through. We can all get the skill set if we work at it long enough and hard enough. But the confidence issue is big and getting that confidence level up is key.

ballmi - sounds like there's some procrastination in there too!

Reading this thread and not working on my business. :p

There's a hell of a lot of truth in that - I have to ration myself with a set time per day I come into WF otherwise time goes by and I've done nothing with my business!

Yeah, it's a good time here, but unless your business is WF, you're kind of wasting it after a while.