AMY HANSEN

When you don’t have all the answers to make a decision, the future outcome becomes very uncertain.  You worry about making the wrong decision and this causes you to avoid taking any action at all.  The fear of not knowing the answer can leave you paralyzed in your current comfort zone.  However, if you want to achieve big goals and dreams in your life, you’re going to have to learn to be okay with not having all the answers.

School

Recall being back in school when you were called upon to answer a question in front of the class and you weren’t sure if you knew the answer.  Que the anxiety sweat and massive fear building up inside of you.  If you provided the wrong answer you’d have to live with that embarrassment for what seems like forever.  If you got it right you’d look smart and be a hero.  However, this judgement from yourself and others does not determine your true worthiness or your ability to achieve...

A lot of times, you hold yourself back from going after your goals and dreams in life.  Maybe it’s fear, worry, or simply self doubt that stops you in your tracks.  Whatever it may be, it’s preventing you from living life to your full potential.  You need to give yourself permission to fail.  That’s the only way you’ll grow and fully experience life.  It’s not about all the things you got right.  It’s about the journey and the experience along the way.  Achieving your goal requires a lot of failure before you finally reach success.  It’s time to learn how to embrace failure and give yourself permission to fail in life.  Success is ultimately achieved through failure.

Trying New Things

Your mind is like a trap.  Its job is to keep you safe within your comfort zone of what’s familiar.  Anything outside of that is scary and unknown.  Yet, that’s where life truly...

Choosing the wrong direction to achieve your goal can cause you to struggle and slow down your progress towards your goal.  However, no one has all the answers or knows the perfect path to take that will have the least resistance to quickly achieve your goal.  You’re going to have to do the best you can with the information you currently have.  No one has a crystal ball to predict the future so you can pick a direction that minimizes mistakes and errors.  You just have to wing it, choose a direction, and go!

Get Into Action

You might want to take time to research and plan out the perfect path to achieve your goal.  But, even the most calculated decisions don’t always go as planned.  There is no amount of research and planning that can add up to the knowledge and experience you gain by actually taking action.  Consider learning how to ride a bike.  Reading books, watching videos, and learning tutorials cannot compare to...

There are times when you feel down, out, and don’t want to work towards your goal.  You’d rather stay in bed, curled up under the warm covers.  Getting up and working on your goal can be extremely tough and tiring.  It’s easier just to pull the blanket over your head and close your eyes to go back to sleep.  But, this doesn’t help you to achieve your goals.  You’re not doing anything but hiding and hoping that some how you’ll muster up the willpower to get yourself into motion.  Here is what to do when you don’t want to work on your goal and feel like giving up.

Giving Up

There are many reasons why you may not want to work on your goal.  But, it usually boils down to the fact that things got challenging so you stopped taking action and you’re just not where you’d like to be.  You feel like you should be further along and you begin to think that maybe you’re just not cut out...

Getting started to achieve your goal is easy when you’re excited and enthusiastic.  The toughest part is keeping that momentum going.  It’s getting up and completing a task each day that moves the needle.  You can quickly find excuses to not work towards your goal.  There are so many other things that sound like more fun or are less daunting than the necessary tasks to achieve your goal.  You’re going to have to eliminate as many of these barriers as possible if you want to make progress and ultimately achieve your goal.

Create A Plan

Begin by eliminating the barrier of not knowing what you need to working on to achieve your goal.  Do some preplanning to set yourself up for success each day.  Choose outfits, meals, workouts, tasks, etc. ahead of time so you don’t waste time procrastinating by trying to figure out what you should be doing.  Have an action plan to work towards your goal.  Know what...

There are many distractions that try and tempt you away from working on achieving your goals.  These are usually the easier, more mundane tasks that don’t move the needle.  In fact, these tasks most likely have nothing to do with helping you to achieve your goals.  Rather, these tasks take you further away.  Learn how you can begin avoiding distractions from your goals.

Challenges

Distractions are ultimately challenges that you must overcome if you want to achieve your goals.  Each challenge tests your resolve, determination, and perseverance.  It’s a way to see how badly you really want to achieve your goal.  It’s up to you to pass the test and avoid these distractions.  However, you can’t always avoid distractions.  An emergency or something important can pop up out of nowhere.  Your challenge is to decide if the distraction is necessary and crucial enough to take priority over your goal.

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Your intuition is your inner knowing.  It’s that gut feeling you have where you’re not quite sure how you know, but you just know.  However, that doesn’t always happen.  Sometimes you’re faced with a difficult decision and you’re just unsure what to do.  You find yourself overthinking and getting wrapped up in all the different possible outcomes.  Yet, this doesn’t help you, it only hurts you.  Find out what you can do when you find yourself overthinking.

Overthinking

Often when you’re faced with a difficult decision, you get into overthinking.  You think about all the worst case scenarios that could maybe happen.  Your attention is on the what if’s which aren’t usually the most positive outcomes.  This creates a bunch of anxiety for you because these different scenarios are outside of your control.  The noise in your mind increases in intensity and volume as you...

There are three archetypes that are holding you back from achieving your goal.  See if you recognize yourself in any of the following three archetypes.  Once you identify one or all that are culprits for you, your newfound awareness will help you remedy these self-sabotaging archetypes so that you can take action and achieve your goal.

Procrastinator

The first archetype is procrastination.  Underneath procrastination is this belief that you can’t actually achieve what you truly want.  Therefore, you procrastinate.  You put off working on existing action items that you know you should be completing.  You leave unfinished tasks on your to do list until another day when you might feel like it.  Although, you never feel like completing it.  You’re self-sabotaging by procrastinating.  This only creates more stress, worry, and sadness within you as your goal remains unachieved.  Take notice of when you’re...

You’re either still making progress towards your goals and going full steam ahead or you’ve already fallen off track.  There are many reasons why you give up on your goals.  But, you might be self sabotaging your success and you don’t even know it.  Self sabotage happens when you’re unclear of your goal, you’re not taking action, you’re comparing yourself to others, or you’re easily distracted by new shiny objects.  None of these things will help you get to where you want to go.  Let’s take a look at how you are self sabotaging your success.

Clear Vision

The first thing you need to do is to make sure you are completely clear on your vision.  Know where you’re headed and what you’re working to achieve.  Get really specific about the goal you want to achieve.  If you don’t know where you’re going then it’s going to be difficult to figure out how to get there.

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Your lack of clarity is holding you back from achieving your goals.  If you don’t know what you want, then you won’t know where you’re headed.  This blurry vision for your future is only keeping you stuck.  You may have a bit of an idea of what you want your future to look like, but you’re not entirely clear on what you want to achieve.  This creates confusion and chaos as you waste time jumping from one idea to the next.  It’s time to get specific about what exactly it is that you want to achieve.  Here is how to create clarity on your goals.

Dream

First, give yourself permission to dream big for a moment.  Think about what you want to achieve, experience, and feel in the future.  There is no limit to what you can achieve in your dreams.  Allow yourself to explore the possibilities.  Take time to really visualize your future either one month, one year, or even five years from now.  Envision...