Are you looking at your revenue for the year realizing you won’t make the goals you set for this year?

Maybe you started out excited in the beginning of the year, with a vision and a goal to make a certain amount, to leap to the next level in your business.

Maybe your goal was to make enough to replace your corporate income so you could finally quit your other job or take your business to 6 or 7 figures. Whatever your goals were, if you are not where you want to be right now why do you think that is?

These are some common reasons why you may be falling behind on your goals:

1) You don’t have a realistic plan for how you are going to make the money you want to make. I often speak with people who have certain goals but when I ask them about their goals, I realize that they have a math problem.

What they are intending to do is not adding up. They say they want to make 6 figures, but when I look at what they charge, how long time it takes for them to do deliver the work, how many clients they need to serve, how much time it takes to acquire each client, there is not enough time in the day for them to actually be able to achieve their goals.

In other words, their math is not adding up and their plan or lack of a plan is setting them up for failure before they even begin.

Is a math problem keeping you from reaching your goals?

2) You are not fully committed and you don’t have a sense of urgency. You are hoping that you will reach your goals for the next year, but you haven’t fully committed. The bottom line is, if you’re not fully committed, you’re going to let a lot of excuses get in your way.

If you want to be successful, you need to make a commitment to succeed.

When it gets down to doing the work, you may stop yourself short of your goals, decide that what you set out to do is too difficult and give up on yourself. In order to reach your goals ask yourself what you are committed to doing. What are you willing to do? What are you willing to give up? And finally what would stop you from moving forward?

If you want to be successful, you need to make a decision to succeed and make a commitment to yourself so you can get out of your own way when things get tough. Because there will be some tough days.

3) You lack the skills, confidence or mindset to achieve the results you want and you are not taking the necessary steps to improve it.

It may be a blind spot or it may be that you don’t know what you don’t know, so you think you know 🙂 You may realize that there are areas you are not mastering, but instead of taking action to learn it, you come up with the reasons why now is not a good time, you don’t have the time, or you don’t have the money.

Many business owners let fear stop them from doing what they know in their heart that they need to do. Knowing what to do and doing it are two very different things. Not taking action to learn the right skills that will help you move forward usually makes you stay right where you are.

If you want to learn how to get out of self-sabotage, this article goes deeper into how the subconscious mind will try to stop you from creating what you want and how to change it.

What do you think you need to learn/understand in order to consistently meet your goals? It could be marketing, sales, planning, strategies or very possibly your mindset? Make a list right now, and start taking action now. Here’s a hint. You want to make decisions not based on where you are, but based on where you want to be.

If your goals don’t scare you, you are not growing.

If you want to super-charge your vision and step into living your dreams faster, I invite you to get a copy of my Success-soul®Living Starter Kit. In it you will get tools and exercises to help you tap into your vision and remove some of the internal blocks that are holding you back. You can get a copy here.