Often while working towards your goal, you see an obstacle that blocks your progress. The unfortunate part about obstacles is that they come without warning. If we do nothing about them we are bound to come face to face with one of the following conditions:

- You Loose Energy
- Lack of Motivation
- Lack of Time Management
- Lack of Enthusiasm

These are all signs of weaknesses and come when you fear that you might fail, you doubt your skills or it may even be some kind of other social pressure that you have started facing again. Each of these factors is a potential barrier and could well and potentially prevent your ability to reach your goals. There are ways for removing these, or at least for minimizing their impact.  Let us consider two of the most common problems:

1. Fear that you might fail
2. Doubt about your skills

Considering each of the above mentioned obstacles let us find ways to remove them.

1. Fear that you might fail:
This is a most common problem. We all experience a fear that we may lose. I often reframe this feeling in a very different manner. Losing is not bad…. Shocked ? You shouldn’t be, take it instead in a very different way : You have simply not reached your goal yet…….. nothing else.

Nobody likes to fail, it is however sometime important to do so. Failure teaches us many things, most importantly, “hope to do better”..

So, do not worry about failure, just continue to do your very best to achieve what you desire.

I always learned from my mentors that one should always take Failures as the opportunity to move forward. So i always learn from my failures and feel proud to share them even.

2. Doubt about your skills:
How strong is your determination to reach your goals?  

Doubts lead to a lack of commitment and have the potential to weaken your confidence in your own skills and abilities.

You may start thinking: I do not posses the skills necessary to reach my goals, or , I cannot achieve this because I do not posses certain skills & abilities…

Some ways through which you can overcome these doubts:

1. Think positively about your skills and abilities
2. Concentrate on the skills which work  best for you
3. Do not ask others about you skills, answer this question yourself, you yourself know better.
4. Be positive and work hard at the skill you choose

These are some of  the most common problems we normally face, I hope I have covered both of them well and provided you with a solution. Please look into both of them and if you have any problems related to achieving your goal. You can surely contact me at admin@theideallab.com

In continuation to the Self improvement posts. This is one of the most important post/point out of the Four Steps to success. This is also a point where many of us often loose focus.

“A definite difference between those who are successful and those who are not.”

Today we will discuss how can we focus towards our goal.

If you search over the internet, you will find numerous ways on How to stay focused towards your goal. More or less all of them are right & are good to follow even. But let me share with you my secret.

Since last 8 years, i have been following this and i have no doubt in saying this that i never ended up being unsuccessful. I believe the best way to achieve your goal is to have a “Short Term Plans” rather than single “Long Term Plan”. I personally find them easy to achieve and they help me stay focused.

Let’s  take an example:

Let say you want to be a successful Entrepreneur. Now if you see, this is a LONG TERM PLAN. You cannot achieve this in 1 day. By just staring at this and have no short term plans you can not remain focused.

Try to see the hidden questions which are present over here, which we need to ask ourselves.

1. Its ok, that i want to be a successful Entrepreneur but in what field?

2. What’s the methodology that i need to follow in order to get this?

3. Am i going to be building a product or consulting a business?

4. If its a Product then what should be the product model?

5. What should be the MVP of it?

Above are just few examples of the hidden questions that we never see or if see, don’t want to answer them. I say these are very important questions to answer, reason they lead you towards the SHORT TERM PLAN.

Just to give you an example a few SHORT TERM PLANS from the above list:

1. Getting intouch with the right sort of the people who are successful Entrepreneurs, knowing their failures and success stories

2. Getting the right Idea

3. Doing the Market Research

All of these if you see needs a specific spell (some time). I call them SHORT TERM PLANS.

I personally think this is the best way of moving forward. By setting down clear and specific short term plans, you will be able to stay focused towards what you want and hence be in a better position to take action accordingly.