Thinking up a goal is the easy part. Pinpointing the specifics of a goal, developing a plan of action, and then following through with that plan of action and pushing past the inevitable obstacles that will arise is a different story altogether. As you can see, there are many reasons why we fail to achieve our goals (and our new year’s resolutions every year).
Former U.S. President Teddy Roosevelt is famous for having said: “Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty.”
It would be easy to blame people’s avoidance of pain and difficulty for the fact that a great majority of goals fail to be met, but there has to be more to it than that, right? Well, there most certainly is. So, why do we fail to achieve our goals?
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