Top 10 Reasons People Fail?

14 years ago

Here are a few that come to mind:
- Lack of motivation
- Lack of proper knowledge
- Lack of genuine, consistent effort/work
- Giving up after the first (inevitable) failure
- Shotgun approach (e.g. trying to do several things at once without investing enough time with each approach to get any decent results)

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Pauline Bennett

14 years ago

Wrong mindset
Lack of knowledge
Lack of motivation
just a couple that come to mind

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MattOwen

14 years ago

Fear of failure is a big one. It crippled me for a while without even presenting its self as a conscious problem. I wouldn't act (lack of actual work) because I was scared it had to be perfect, or else it would get rejected. Its absurd looking back on it but I can assure you it effects a large amount of people even without their knowledge.

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Traffic Master

Banned 14 years ago

Because every body thinks the same thing. Like when theres a Hot Chick, out of the 100 guys thinking "I'd never get her" only 1 has the confidence yet the 99% would look better than that 1 person its all about risking rejection. You can relate this to SEO.

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megawarrior

14 years ago

- Lack of knowledge
- Fear of failure itself, which prevents them from investing time/money to get started

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Simon Ashari

14 years ago

One is looking at the past.

Your past has nothing to do with how you act now. Some people use bad experiences of the past to justify inaction or wrong action.

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FaisalReza

14 years ago

My idea is :-

1) Lack Of Knowledge - don't have any initiative to get knowledge. Think they know everything.

2) Knowledge Overload - too many knowledge, so didn't focus with the main knowledge to make money.

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Daystar11

14 years ago

Lack of originality
fear of trying new things
stuck in the past
following the crowd
lack of innovation
inability to let go when its needed
poor judgment
inability to discriminate between the useful and the useless

I know there is some overlap here; just wanted to present
a few different ways of looking at it.

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Banned 14 years ago

Shortsightedness
Jack of all trades
Master of nothing

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psufootball

14 years ago

I think the biggest factor is giving up after not seeing immediate results. If you want serious income in any kind of business you've got to stick with it through thick and thin. Everyone wants to put 4 hours of work into a project and give up after it yields nothing. It's only setting yourself up for failure when you do that.

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value added 14 years ago

Doing what all the others do. It's okay to copy successful people but you have to put in your own twist.
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Hardcoremarketing

14 years ago

failure to visualize, with as many sense as possible, the outcome they truly want. How good would you be at soccer if you didn't know scoring goals was THE goal?

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Hardcoremarketing

14 years ago

failure to deeply visualize the outcome you want.

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14 years ago

because you lack of many things...

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Austin357

14 years ago

Thinking short term or instant results mindset. Giving up after not succeeding after a handful of times.

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Nic Oliver

14 years ago

The two main ones I see are fear of failure and fear of success.

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bnsuccessful

14 years ago

no patience

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  If you do not invest yourself fully - you will fail. For me that is not an option.
  
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mervyngoh

14 years ago

Choose the right association, be with the liked minded

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johnes4th

14 years ago

Inaction is the biggest reason people fail... everyone has dreams and aspirations, but very few even try to take a course of action to achieve them.

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sriram rajan

14 years ago

With regards to any business or IM there will be 3 - 7 skills ...

In IM my pick would be
1) List Building
2) Web site creation / Word press
3) Product creation
4) Affiliate Marketing
5) Membership sites
6) Traffic
7) Sales funnels / upsells etc

not in that particlular order of importnace as these are the foundational pillars ..

People look to make $$ before setting their foundations rights and hence there is a Lack Of Patience to see results in one method and jump to the next before really mastering the key skills..

If you pick start mastering tese skills then can use any of the latest and greatest software , plugin , FB marketing to make $$$.... the problem is when some one does not spend time to ste the foundations right is what leads to lots of confusions and bad results...

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Michael Ten

14 years ago

Here is my list of why individuals fail.

1. They give up.
2. They stop trying.
3. They have the wrong strategy.
4. They do not change their strategy when appropriate.
5. They listen to bad advice.
6. They do not seek the right advice.
7. They are dishonest in their endeavors.
8. They break the law in their in their endeavors.
9. They are unethical in their endeavors.
10. They do not care if they succeed.

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mark4kumar

14 years ago

Hi Harvey,

Here are the top 10 reasons I have found why people fail.

10) They don’t spend enough time around positive people who will help them succeed.

9) They refuse to invest in continuing education.

8 ) They don’t treat their home based business as a real business.

7) They don’t invest the necessary time and money to make the business work.

6) They don’t practice Attraction Marketing principles.

5) They don’t develop and stick to a good marketing plan.

4) They don’t test different marketing strategies.

3) They don’t follow up with their leads and prospects.

2) They don’t keep the end in mind.

1) They quit.

I hope this helps you.

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richim1

14 years ago

Do not action (procrastination)

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SamuraiKat

14 years ago

This is what I would say.

1)Not knowing what they are trying to sell.
2)Getting distracted
3)Lack of focus
4)Lack of understanding marketing
5)Fear of taking action
6)Not having a strong support system
7)Lack of being able to evaluate where stage of business they are in.

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Fallen_Angel

14 years ago

Lack of Focus

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Simon Ashari

14 years ago

@Harvey

Hows the book coming along?

Plenty of good suggestions here. Look forward to hearing about it.

-Simon

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Harvey M 14 years ago

Originally Posted by Simon Ashari

@Harvey

Hows the book coming along?

Plenty of good suggestions here. Look forward to hearing about it.

-Simon

Hey Simon,

It's coming along nicely. Just under 8.5 thousand words and 26 pages. I've only covered 11 of the 63 topics, so I've got a fair way to go yet. Been working on it for the past 4 hours.
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Annie15

14 years ago

Lack of self confidence is what I think a reason for failure

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DesignDevelopment

14 years ago

My Life experience tells me that
1. WRONG PRIORITIES
2. Week Foresightedness
3. POOR MANAGEMENT/ Execution
4. NO BACK UP PLAN
5. GIVING UP
are the major reasons why people Ordinary or Famous, fail and Ones who dont accept this FAIL AGAIN and AGAIN...

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Harvey M

14 years ago

Originally Posted by DesignDevelopment

My Life experience tells me that
1. WRONG PRIORITIES
2. Week Foresightedness
3. POOR MANAGEMENT/ Execution
4. NO BACK UP PLAN
5. GIVING UP
are the major reasons why people Ordinary or Famous, fail and Ones who dont accept this FAIL AGAIN and AGAIN...

No back up plan? Check out my signature. :p

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DesignDevelopment 14 years ago

Originally Posted by Harvey M

No back up plan? Check out my signature. :p

hhahahah... cool
and now i am really looking forward to read your book
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  hhahahah... cool
  and now i am really looking forward to read your book
  
  It's completely unrelated to IM, but thanks anyway! :p
  
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GT

14 years ago

hello, Harvey:

Sounds like your book is coming along quite well. I really appreciate this discussion thread. One key to making progress is understanding what is holding us back and our fellow WF members are giving us some great insight into areas to keep an eye on.

A few have mentioned "lack of confidence" as being one of the reasons people fail. I would emphasize this point.

I think that a lack of confidence, or low self-confidence or self-esteem is a major obstacle. I am sure that tips and insight on dealing with this will be appreciated by your eventual readers.

Brian Tracy suggests that before going into a situation, you visualize yourself functioning at your best in that kind of situation. Recall past experiences in that situation where you have performed well or have been successful.

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14 years ago

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

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Krisz Rokk

14 years ago

* Not believing
* Lack of confidence/ self-confidence
* Lacking the right mindset + attitude
* Lack of desire
* No passion
* Not being committet
* Not being persistent
* Not being consistent
* Fear of failure / fear of success
* Lack of determination
* Lack of knowledge
* Lack of skills
* No team
* Not knowing what the client really wants
* Lacking sales-skills / being afraid to sell+market themselves and the product/ service they are offering
* Being afraid of difficult clients
* Not willing to work hard for what they truly want

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phpPro

14 years ago

a good amount of businesses fail online:
1. low investment,
2. unplanned approach,
3. lack of planning big.
4. lack of good tech support.
5. accepting a hatchback when u told the tech specifically for a ferrari [ wrt your website]
6. making do and trying to do business with a hatchback, coz u think ur stuck with it!
7. waisting too much money repairing the hatchback, rather than hiring another firm / programmer to build u a ferrari

.... i can go on and on.....

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darrenchow

14 years ago

I believe people fail ultimately because:
1) They afraid of failures & give up after they fail. Success very often comes after failureS.
2) And when they fail, they blame, they do not learn.

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laurahogue

14 years ago

i agree with johnes4th

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M Thompson 14 years ago

Mostly Fear of failure or fear of success (yes it does exist!)

funnily just finished a blog post about it
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elf25

14 years ago

It's totally action. Less than 3% of nearly any seminar attendees act on the info that they receive at the seminar! I'm sure it's similar with buying eBooks and WSO's!! I'm so guilty of this also.

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triobacklinkbuilder

14 years ago

Maybe I am wrong
but
I want to add one point

Do over-trust to anyone

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PriceMaster

14 years ago

It can be a never ending list but the most important point IMO is:

1. Stay Patient and don't give up on IM.

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SallyBHT

14 years ago

Dealing with too much things at the same times... This is my personnal killer, always running many rabbits at once...

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SallyBHT

14 years ago

mailbox is a big time killer for me too

Close your facebook, gmail etc. and you'll be more efficient

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hireava

14 years ago

Here are some reasons why people fail...

-Limiting beliefs based on external opinions.
-Lack of focus.
-Lack of positive influences.
-Failure to follow-up.
-Failure to persist through difficult times.
-Operating from a mindset of scarcity.
-Lack of gratitude.
-Lack of faith.

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wordcatcher

14 years ago

Not knowing what they want and giving up are the most important reasons why people fail in life and are unsucessful and unhappy.

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Allentcl82

14 years ago

Reason 1 - No Action,
Reason 2 - No Action,
Reason 3 - No Action,
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Reason 10 - No Action....

Well, at least the above is my top 10 reason why i'm not successful yet.. :p

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kavitapore

14 years ago

1.negative thinking
2.wrong mindset
3.not enough Knowledge
4.fear from failure
5.less motivation
6.less confidence
7.low morel
8.low management
9.less Patient
10.wrong leadership

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Duecks

14 years ago

Here is my list of why individuals fail.

1. give up.
2. stop trying.
3. have the wrong strategy.
4. do not change their strategy when appropriate.
5. listen to bad advice.
6. do not seek the right advice.
7. are dishonest in their endeavors.
8. break the law in their in their endeavors.
9. Do over-trust to anyone

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H.Miller

14 years ago

Procrastination, fear and lack of focus were the big reasons for me when I first started.

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fpdeziner

14 years ago

I think People do not focus on things. They are keep on learning new things without focusing on the other things they already know.. I can only point out this point as I think its the biggest reason of any fail. You must focus if you want success...

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onlinesolutions1985

13 years ago

i believe.. no action and cant move on with the past..

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articlesarthors

13 years ago

That shotgun approach has gotten me many times. I just had to learn to sit back and try one or two things at a time and let them run their course.

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softproducts

13 years ago

Those who fail simply doesn't have the Power. Power to take action in every moment whether right or wrong...

TAKE ACTION WITHOUT DELAY AND FEAR ITSELF WILL FAIL.

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ronrule

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Harvey M

Can anyone list a few for me? I'm writing about this in an eBook on my niche, but I think failure is global and can be converted from IM to whatever.

Short term thinking.

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joesfortune

13 years ago

I've read a lot of threads and surprisingly, among the various suggestions, one thing is sorely lacking - attitude. With the right attitude, you can reach the stars. With the wrong attitude, a worm can do better.

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Brad Hodge

13 years ago

I think there are some factors which cause failure. These factors according to my thoughts are as follows:
lack of decision making skill
lack of sharing
lack of patience
no self confidence
working irregular
no proper guidelines etc.

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ronrule

13 years ago

How about simply "being unqualified"?

No one ever says that, but it's probably the #1 reason.

When I was 20 I thought I knew how to run a business. It wasn't until I was 30 that I truly understood how little I knew back then. At 34, I'm still learning.

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Jeff Schuman

13 years ago

There are a lot of good answers here. As it pertains to making money I would say the main reason people fail is a lack of Internet marketing skills.

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CathyAnn

13 years ago

Great answers!

My contribution:

Don't know the real "why". What will their success really get them… not just money… what does money bring… power, pride, security, fame. It's different for everyone.

Not keeping the "why" in front of them. This is the motivation.

Not learning from someone who is successful at what they are teaching.

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natebunger

13 years ago

A lot of people fail because they accept defeat even before trying out something. They make up a lot of problems in their minds that weren't there in the first place.

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12 years ago

Not working on their mindset by listening and reading personal development books and audios. Change your thinking about yourself, you change your life--almost immediately!

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