Chapter 1 - Identification of the Possible Roadblocks to Success of the YES! BELIEVE

As narrated previously, every one of us can feel stuck at one time or another. The reason is due to there may exist some varying situations that make us feel so. It can be either the bad relationship, the wrong selection of the business, and the wrong job, etc. Regardless of the situation and the circumstances that give rise to these outcomes, feeling stuck would not make us feel good about ourselves. In fact, in case if we do not feel good about ourselves, then we might lose control over the things and deviate from the track. Hence, it can lead to disappointments, frustrations, anger, as well as depression.

At this point, it is quite important for us to know all the details related to the roadblocks that might appear in our life such as, how they tend to influence the daily-based activities by making us feel disappointed, helpless, hopeless, and finally, give up.

Five Key Questions to Identify the Roadblocks to Success

The first essential thing that we need to do now is identifying the roadblocks to success. Why? The reason is obvious, if we could understand and identify all those roadblocks, then it would be much easier for us to tackle all of them down. For this, there are five key questions that we need to ask ourselves, in order to identify those roadblocks.

1. Does the roadblock inspire you to take any applicable action?
2. Does the roadblock help you out to meet your needs and positive ambitions of yourself?
3. Does the roadblock empower and fasten you in the context of fear and conflict?
4. Does the roadblock move you forward or drag you down?
5. Does the roadblock push you to empowerment and improvement, or support you to dawdle?

One essential thing that we all should know is, some of the roadblocks that appear in our paths might actually have its own role as a special tool to help us grow. That's why, make sure to ask this final challenging question to yourself as well:

Will conquering this roadblock help you to grow?

One thing for you to always keep in mind is, ‘never run from the challenges.’ Be aware and ready since many times in our lives, there would be some situations that you might think that it is extremely difficult to overcome. Additionally, you might also feel that we are all alone, that the people we love, the places, and all that surround you are not supporting or giving any help for you to through these hard times. Worst, you might even feel that everyone is against you, everyone wants to drag you down, and no one is really on your side. However, you should not be that quick enough to reject or eject things in your life. In fact, you also must not hate people for not helping us in these difficult times. In its place, these whole messy things might be more likely to turn out as a discomfort itself that you disagree with, whatever the reason you have. This is actually the time for you to dig more, take out that courage and bravery inside yourself, be your own hero and tackle all these challenges. Remember, difficult could be different for each of us, some might think that relationships are difficult, others think that school is difficult, or else, professional improvement is difficult.

So the point here is that, you need to try to identify and understand why you are trying to avoid these challenges, roadblocks, hurdles, and difficulties. Make sure you get yourself to the root and figure out the core of it, then you would able to find out how to remove them all.

Some Common Roadblocks to Success

Every one of us wants to achieve success in our life. Yes, definitely, not a single person in this world would ever set up any goal to be failed. However, sometimes we will find the roadblocks get in our way. Now, the main thing to plant out in our mind is, all of those roadblocks are only will slow our progress, and they would never mean to drag us to failure.

Now, here are the most common roadblocks that we might get in our way to achieve success, and how we should tackle down all of them.

Lack of Focus of the YES! BELIEVE

About more than 90% of people in this globe have identified this lack of focus as the biggest roadblock that slowing down their road to success. Question yourself if you are one of those people. Do you switch around a project to another? Do you have many unfinished projects waiting? Do you often feel confuse and wonder why you seem to distance away from success? Then, soon you would give up and starting to believe that your goal was actually unrealistic right since the first place when we placed it.

To overcome this, the first thing that you need to do is deciding what exactly your goal. Then you will have to clear out all those uncompleted projects since they will only become your hassles to achieve your goal. Yes, try to prioritize all your tasks and complete one before moving forward to another different task. Once you have noticed yourself drifting, then you need to just take some time and remind yourself of what you are trying to achieve and what your main reasons are to achieve them in your life.

Now you need to focus on the project and make some time, maybe just one or two hours per day to tackle down those uncompleted tasks. Distinguish some tasks that you found the most complicated ones, and try to complete them first. Once you have completed the difficult ones, then, surely, it would be quite easier for you to move on to the easier tasks and complete them as well. Keep in mind that each successful person has succeeded to build up self-discipline and focus as one of their habits. In the end, you would able to see that by giving your focus on one project and complete it before  moving one to another, then it will be just a matter of time for you to wait for success to reach you.

Perfectionism of the YES! BELIEVE

Have you ever noticed that you are a perfectionist person? Have you ever completed your project but still not getting any satisfaction from it? Then you would begin to tweak it a bit, and also start to wonder what could be not right. In fact, you would keep on searching for the imperfections until you can be assured that everything is perfect. 

To overcome this type of roadblock, you need to learn to challenge yourself and take a risk. Place this one essential point in your mind ‘nothing is perfect in this world.’ You just need to remember that there will always be a pace for improvement in life. However, you would never have any idea which improvements are required until you could place it out there for others to observe. If you have made it to release yourself from that perfectionism and just place that imperfection out there, then start work on your next project ahead.

Fear of the YES! BELIEVE

What type of things that you are really afraid of?

‘Fear of Success’ this term might have crossed around you. There is typically an underlying motive that makes you feel this way. Try to ask these questions to yourself:

-          Do you ever feel that you would turn out to become worthless of success?

-          Do you ever think that once you can achieve success, then you would have much more responsibility that beyond your limit to handle?

-          Do you have a fear that people will not see you the same way if you achieve your success?

-          Do you have a fear of any criticism if you might get fail?

The first thing that you must do is definitely, you have to be able to figure out what exactly makes your fear come up.  Every so often, once you could realize what your fear exactly is, then that fear will drive away by itself. You have to learn to build up that confidence in every single decision that you will make. Realize and accept that no one in this world is perfect, nor are you. But there is something that you have, your value to offer, show the rest of the world that you are, indeed, worthy to become a successful person. Try to visualize how your life would be once you can achieve that success.

Time of the YES! BELIEVE

Every one of us has assigned the same time amount; we all have 24 hours per day and 365 days in a year. Now it all depends on you on how you would spend the time that you have. ‘Sometimes I do not have enough time’ is considered as an excuse for anyone not to do any worth things that they might not really want. In fact, each of us turns out to always making time to do things that we really enjoy.

Why don’t you try now to dedicate even only an hour from your 24 hours to achieve your goals? Believe it or not, by doing this, you would eventually achieve your goals since you try to make time and focus on something that is quite essential for you. Yes, you need to make some priorities on what you have to do, you need to clear out all the mental and physical confusions, delegate whenever you think is possible, and also, you have to learn how to say NO. Remind yourself not to waste your valuable time to do something that you do not want to do, with the sake of tolerance and do not want others to get hurt by your rejection.

Lack of Money of the YES! BELIEVE

            There is a quote saying that, “It takes money to make money.” Well, even though this might be a quite rational thing to one scope, while you might have not noticed that it is actually a roadblock that you could easily overcome. The reason is due to, if you really want something, then you would always figure out to find the money for it.

            While some people are able to search some amount of money then spend it on what they want, some of them do not really know how to spend their money wisely, and some are never satisfied with the amount of money they have earned. Now, you need to question yourself what you really want more. If you have loaded of great ideas and you need more money than you already earned, then you could try to search and get a loan. Or you could also search out for any investor to support your project.

Conflicts of the YES! BELIEVE

The context of conflict as one the roadblock on your way to success could be an inner conflict inside yourself, or maybe a conflict with your partner. To be noted, most of the successful persons follow their passion. Hence, you need to arrange your personal goals. Your goals should be something that your heart really desire, something that you have inside your mind and soul. In addition to this, try to understand that you would never able to give proper effort on something that basically against your personal morals and ethics. If you do so, then you might find yourself in consistent distress and there would be a big chance that you would lack of motivation to do anything.

So, if you have found out that your vision appears to become a conflict with your partner, family, or other important people, then you might should reconsider it again.

Distractions of the YES! BELIEVE

You should never allow this type of roadblock to get in the way and slowing you down in achieving your goals. Plant a perception that distractions are only a shape of postponement. Distractions could appear in lots of ways such as getting up late and still taking too much time in having a cup of coffee, watching TV while completing your project, or browsing on things that are irrelevant to your project on the Internet.

Once these distractions ascend, then you would need to remind yourself of the goals that you are trying to achieve, and then try always to be FOCUS.

Now that you have acknowledged some common roadblocks that might come on your way to achieve success, there is one fundamental point for you to understand, roadblocks are unpredictable. Roadblocks could even appear out of sudden, or they might shape up over time. No matter they would appear as small or big things, but these roadblocks will definitely show up to challenge you. In fact, these roadblocks are going to be scared out of your wits and asking you to overcome them if you really want to achieve your success. Never give up and motivate yourself that you would able to conquer them. Just view these roadblocks as the world is testing you to figure out how badly you want that success to come. If you would able to do so, then there would be nothing which able to stop you from getting what you want to achieve.