Overcoming Obstacles to Your Goals
You won’t achieve your professional and personal goals unless you learn how to overcome obstacles! These tips for success will keep you focused and motivated.
Before the tips, a quip from Henry Ford:
“Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.”
To reach your goals, stay focused — and expect to encounter problems! These tips for overcoming obstacles to your goals are from the co-author of Invisible No More: The Secret Lives of Women Over 50 (click the book cover for more info!).
“We all have goals we’d like to reach,” says Renee Fisher, co-author of Invisible No More. “But often, we never reach our goals because of obstacles that we believe stop us. We see these obstacles as insurmountable. The truth is that there is no obstacle that can stop us, but we must first be willing to see ourselves and others in a completely new way.“
Overcoming Obstacles to Your Goals
1. Be 100% responsible for yourself. That means no excuses. Ever. At first you’ll hate this, because life is so much easier when we are the victims of our fate (“I was late because traffic was bad/I would go back to school but I have no money/My marriage fell apart because he was a jerk!”). Being 100% responsible for yourself can seem overwhelming, but when you accept responsibility for achieving your personal goals, you’ll experience an incredible sense of empowerment. If you truly believe that everything in your life is your creation (the good, the bad, the ugly), then how could anything stop you from reaching your goals?
2. Live from your vision, not your circumstances. Creating a vision is difficult, but once you know what you want for your life, it sets a framework for everything you do. Your circumstances will never get you closer to your goal. Only your vision can guide you to get what you want. If your goal is to lose weight and be healthy, then act like someone who is already fit (and put down that second piece of cake!). If your goal is to make money, act like someone who is already financially successful and responsible (and don’t run amok with your credit card). This tip for overcoming obstacles to reaching your goals requires you to focus on what you want — not where you are.
3. Hold people, including yourself, in the highest possibility. If you react to someone as though they are incompetent or negative or unloving, they will be so. If, instead, you see them as entirely capable and hold them to that, they will often live into your belief of who they are. Hold them (and yourself) there and accept no less. Start with yourself. Make yourself the example, and always ask yourself “What is my highest possibility in this situation?” This tip for overcoming obstacles to reaching your goals will release you to do and be the best you can.
If you have any questions or thoughts on these tips for overcoming obstacles to your goals, please comment below…
Renee Fisher is the co-creator of two workshops that provide women with an opportunity to identify and achieve their visions.
