Overcoming Obstacles to Your Goals Contest
If you are a reader of this blog, you more than likely have a goal. You took the time to carefully plan it out. You made sure it was meaningful to you, specific, measurable, had a due date, the right size, written down and reviewed. But now that you are halfway through the year you realize you haven’t made the progress you were hoping for.
Some obstacles may have come up, aka roadblocks to your success. They might have been big or small, you may or may not have had control over them, but one thing is clear. To reach your goal you must overcome them.
So for this month’s contest, we want to know:
What is your biggest obstacle towards hitting your goals and how do you overcome it?
To enter, type your name, email and website (if you have one) below with the obstacle to your goal and how you overcame it or plan to.
Winners will be selected by myself and members of the Freedom Team and based on how well the obstacle was described and the quality of the plan to overcome it.
Prizes:
First Place – The New Dynamics of Goal Setting CD set by Dennis Waitley
Second Place – Expect Success Book
Third Place – Freedom Personal Development Water Bottle
All winners will also get a Blue Light-Up Pen and Be Free Sticker
The deadline for submissions is Friday, August 28, 2009. Winners will be emailed and announced on our blog Tuesday, September 1.
Be Free!
David Denis
Staying focused all day
Comment by Karl Kulp — August 6, 2009 @ 10:25 am
Lack of Action – Procrastination
What to do – be accountable to someone who has an emotional stake in your goals (wife, partner)
Comment by John — August 6, 2009 @ 11:00 am
My goal was to set aside time to work on my photography (digital camera pictures). It
seemed that after work (6:30 to 4:30 – wealth advisor) I just came home, grabbed a
glass of wine and watched TV. On the weekends I was having too much fun with my
husband and resented the time that I would sit down to the computer to organize and
send pictures to friends/family.
Overcoming the obstical: After almost a year I figured out that it wasn’t the TV that
relaxed me….it was the “sound” of something in the room. So, two weeks ago, I started
to come home and turn on soft music. Of course I still had my Chardonnay, but I would
go to the computer, read my mail (which I only did on weekends), and spent an hour
playing with my pictures before my husband came home. I feel so..o..o good now!!
Comment by jan demont — August 6, 2009 @ 11:10 am
Yourself is the biggest obstacle when trying to reach your goals.
Comment by David Knox — August 6, 2009 @ 11:28 am
The toughest obstacle for me is me. Self doubt is a problem I deal with from time to time. It is the hardest obstacle for me to overcome because it is inside me and it’s hard to control what you say to yourself not to mention the fact that I must listen. Here is how I have dealt with it in the past.
1. I try to surround myself with positive thinkers. Hang out with, talk with and watch those people that emmulate a positive and confident attitude ie: Deliver Freedom website and seminars among others.
2. I review the things I have achieved in my life and the fact that self doubt was wrong about those as well
3. I try not associate time with failure. Sometimes I just need more time.
Comment by Geoff Veit — August 6, 2009 @ 12:48 pm
To overcome the obstacales that stop us from reaching our goals you must first become concious of the fact that there is a negitive spirit in our mind and a positive spirit, also we have to choose the positive spirit in every action we take to reach self actualization. When we decide to act on a negitive thought thats what sets us back in our quest to reach a positve goal.
Comment by loren — August 6, 2009 @ 12:50 pm
Goals don’t work for me. The best way to achieve failure in some area is to set a gooal for it. Thats an obstacle.
Comment by Glen Sorensen — August 6, 2009 @ 1:31 pm
The biggest obstacle to making any of my goals is….. ME!
To overcome, I must master ME!
I started to eat this “elephant” one bite at a time. I started by making myself go to the gym each morning, even if only for a 30 minute cardio workout, for at least 5 days. Next, I decided to carry a small notebook with a pen to record everything I did for the day. Everything I ate, everywhere I went, and why.
I heard I needed to “Eat that Frog” first each morning, so I’ve put the hardest things I had to do on the top of my list, so they would get done. Otherwise I would avoid them and put them off. I purchased the book, “Eat that Frog” and have put reading it into my daily “To Do” list. I also purchased “Happy For No Reason” and I’m reading that as well.
Mostly, I’ve quit looking for external obstacles and concentrated on the internal ones, as I realized the internal obstacles, once overcome, would make me feel invincible! Well, almost!
Comment by Lynne Cagle — August 6, 2009 @ 5:45 pm
If I know my obstacle I’m halfway to solving it.
My biggest obstacle is when I don’t know what or why?
I overcome an unknown obstacle by surrendering my resistance to what is happening so I can have clarity.
Comment by Meredith Hopper — August 6, 2009 @ 9:42 pm
My biggest obstacle is getting caught up in the details and busyness of the goal and forgetting the meaning behind the goal. I try to prevent myself from doing that by taking vacation, forcing myself to NOT work on the goal for a while. That rejuvenates me and reminds me why I set the goal in the first place.
Comment by David — August 6, 2009 @ 10:44 pm
I have found the more expansive the goal, the more challenging the obstacles.
This causes me to procrastinate,and of course the obstacles loom even larger.
In the past, I slowly and reluctantly attacked the problem with a half-hearted focus.Now,I am more attentive.
For example,I devour self-help books, and as a result,I am familiar with many of the leaders in the field.
I find out what they did when faced with a gigantic problem,and when feasible, I mimic their actions.
The most effective action I have used,however, is the journaling process that involves the following steps and requires me to:
1. Identify the problem as accurately as possible;
2. Write the problem or obstacle using many details;
3. Ask:What is “the ideal” solution to this obstacle/problem?
4. Write the ideal solution;
5. Ask: How can I best obtain the ideal or perfect solution to this challenge?
6. Write all of the posssible ways (legal,moral,etc.)I think I can achieve the desired results;
7. I share with selected family members and friends the problem, ideal solution,and ways I have identified to overcome the obstacle,and if they have ideas which I have not considered,those ideas are included;
8. I (we)pray and meditate specifically about the problem;
9. I move quickly to implement actions that are revealed to me,family member(s) or friend(s).
Granted,this process takes time,and it is primarily used for the “doozies” those real complicated obstacles with many sub-issues and side ones too.
I have received phenomenal results,and using this process has taken much of the worry out of the obstacles I face.
It should work for anyone who follows it diligently.
Comment by Barbara J — August 7, 2009 @ 12:59 pm
To over come an Obstical you have to KEEP THE MAIN THING THE AMIN THING!!! To often we let our selves get distracted from the true thing we need or plan to over come. So if you attack an Obstical with the mind set of eliminate any thing that doesn’t get me to the desired out come. You are KEEPING THE MAIN THEING THE MAIN THING!!! Obstical beaten!!!
Comment by Drew Lamoureux — August 11, 2009 @ 2:05 pm
In my opinion I/most people dont accomplish goals due to lack of planning.Every week I and my managers write what I call a flight plan. This is an outline of activities that I need to accomplish that week. If I dont, they carrie over to the following week until there completed. Small acts of planning lead to big results, we’re finding that we’re more organanized and get much more accomplished by doing so, we are in control whereas before “busy” would get in the way of what we wanted/needed to get done.
PS….
When are you coming back to the twin cities?
Reg Proulx
Saturn of St. Paul
Fixed Operations
651-204-4587
Comment by Reg — August 12, 2009 @ 11:10 am
Accountability. being held accountable to what you said you would do (your goal). I have a business coach who helps keep me accountable to my weekly 411’s. Though it is a work in progress!
Comment by Peggy Dursthoff — August 13, 2009 @ 11:41 am
My greatest obstacle in hitting my goal is that I sometimes go too far outside the box in doing so
Comment by Alan Gyorffy — August 13, 2009 @ 11:50 am
lack of self confidence
Comment by Lynn — August 18, 2009 @ 8:25 am
Hello,
Everything dynamic and very positively!
Thank you
Comment by Eremeeff — September 2, 2009 @ 6:02 pm