Top Ten Enemies Of Success

The road or path to success is not as easy and smooth as most people think.. Almost everyone want to be successful in whatever they do but very few people are willing to pay the price. Many are too scared of failure, forgetting that failure is the pathway to success. Listed and discussed below are the top 10 enemies of success..

• Lack of interpersonal skills

• Indiscipline

• Lack of motivation and enthusiasm

• Failure in accepting responsibility

• Lack of planning

• Laziness

• Failure to learn from other peoples mistakes

• Lack of vision

• Lack of clear goals

• Lack of focus

Lack of Interpersonal Skills

According to research, lack of interpersonal skill is the major reason why so many people oe executives in position do not meet performance expectation. They lack skills such as ability to build relationships, collaborate and influence people.

Indiscipline

No matter the skill you might have acquired, without self discipline it's impossible to achieve a lasting success. Self discipline is the ability to what you know you should do even when you don't feel like doing it. With the application of self discipline, the achievement of goals becomes a reality.

Lack of Motivation and Enthusiasm

Motivation and enthusiasm are the driving force that pushes you to pursue your goals. it occurs when you have strong desire to achieve a specific goal. But when motivation is not in place, the individual finds no interest in putting the required effort to achieve those goals. This is a very frustrating situation when you want to do certain things but you cannot get enough inner strength and motivation to act. 

Some of the reasons for lack of motivation are:

• Lack of self esteem and confidence
• Fear of failure due to past failure
• Laziness
• The habit of procrastination
• Nervousness
• Fear of what others might say

If you want to improve on your life, these are the things you need to overcome and awaken your motivation.

Failure In Accepting Responsibility

We all as humans like to feel important and want to others to have a high opinion of us. Some people more than others develop an over inflated view of themselves. These tendencies to wrap us is what many people call "denial", which creates a false perception of self and inability to accept the truth about us. As such it becomes painful to accept mistakes leading to failure in accepting responsibilities.

Lack Of Planning

A wise man once said that failing to plan is planning to fail. Planning is a necessary skill in life if success is to be achieved by any individual or organization.

Laziness

Laziness can be defined not willing to work or be energetic. It can also be defined as conducive to indolence or inactivity.

A person is being lazy if he or she is being able to carry out an activity but refuses to do so because of the effort involved. This is an enemy of success and if not conquered can lead to failure in life.

Learning From The Mistakes Of Others

They say we learn from our mistakes but it has been discovered that we can be more successful and even get more when we learn from the failures of others. 

A study conducted at Bristol University led by the Faculty's Dr Paul Howard-Jones and Dr Rafal Bogacz, used brain imaging to look at how people and animals learn from failures and success.

The researchers scanned the brain of human that battled against an artificial opponent in a computer game. The scanned brain showed that while players learned from their own successes, they had very little reaction to the opponents win but when the computer failed the task, the brain actively jumped back up. When opponents messed up, players experienced responses in both rewards and learning signals in the brain, which suggests that we take notice of our competitors failures and also learn from the action that caused it, to avoid making similar mistakes in the future.

Lack Of Clear Goals

Setting clear goals gives your life direction, boost your motivation and self confidence. Whoever wants to succeed in life must learn to set clear and achievable goals. Goal setting not only allows you to take control of your life's direction, it also provides you a benchmark for determining whether you are actually succeeding.

To accomplish your goals, you must learn how to set clear goals. Goal setting is a process

that start with careful consideration of what you want to achieve and ends with a lot of hard work to actually achieve it.

Seven rules in goal setting

1. Set goals that are attainable
2. Set goals that motivate you
3. Set specific goals
4. Set goals in writing
5. Set smart goals
6. Make an action plan
7. Stick with it

Lack Of Focus

Focus can be described as the main or central part of something especially of interest or attention. It's a thinking skill that allows people to begin a task without procrastination and then maintain their attention and effort until the task is completed. Focus helps us pay attention in the midst of several distractions and set back and sustain effort and energy needed to reach a goal.

Lack of focus can be very disastrous as any individual/organisation without focus will find it almost impossible to achieve any meaningful success.