10 Reasons Why You Are Not Getting What You Want Out of Life

Do you often wonder what you have achieved in life? Are you frustrated because your goals seem to be beyond your reach? There are many reasons why you are not getting what you want in life. Here are the top ten reasons:


1. No goals: Just like driving a car without knowing your destination, the worst thing in life is that you do not know what you want. So you do not know where to go and how to get there.

2. Wrong goals: As an example, you do not go for further study by following what your friends are doing. You do a SWOT analysis to find out your strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats to decide the subject of your choice. It is based on what you are interested in and what you are good at. You also need to find out the opportunities in the future for the skills and knowledge that you want to acquire. Will your expertise be obsolete very quickly?

3. No SMART (specific, measurable, attainable, realistic, and time-limited) goals: Are your goals realistic and achievable? Do you know precisely what you want? Have you given yourself a deadline to accomplish your goals? Are you able to measure your progress? Here is an example of a SMART goal: I want the Traffic Rank of my blog to be in the top one million by December 31, 2010. My Traffic Rank at the moment is around 1,900.000.

4. Too many goals: Simplify your life and just concentrate on one very important one. There is a focus on 100% energy. As soon as one goal is reached go to the next one.

5. No plan: Have you put done your goals in writing. Can you see clearly the successive stages to reach your objectives? Do you know your daily, weekly, and monthly and yearly tasks?

6. Procrastinate: Do not allow inertia to get the better of you. Spring into action and start work right away by following the daily to-do list. Do it every day and soon it will be a good habit.

7. Not following your plan: When you don’t work your plan, you don’t get what you want. Think of the benefits of realizing your goals to motivate you to act.

8. Lack of consistency: Like following a weight loss program, you stick to your plan faithfully every day in order to see results

9. Lack of persistence: Can you continue to work on your plan for a long period of time? Goals are for the long term.

10. No positive mental attitude: Are you easily discouraged by obstacles along the way? Be confident that problems can be and will be solved. Life is not a bed of roses. Expect failures but bounce back and be wiser.


Do the things you believe in and are passionate about, you will get what you want out of life.