Psychology of Success - 3 Overlooked Reasons Why People Fail

I find it quite amazing that we are a society of failures. This is because I would equate being contented to already surrendering to failure. We are a population of ‘make do’ individuals who are happy to sit on our laurels and watch the world go by. There are fewer grains on the Sahara than opportunities for you to genetically and evolutionarily not be here at all. Life is precious and I think we have been given hands for a reason - to reach out and grab opportunity and bend it to our will, use to our advantage and rest only when we are at the top. This is the psychology of success - and I will discuss 3 overlooked reasons why people fail.

Confidence in marching on where others have stopped. A lot of us go into the daily warzone of war with no belief in our abilities, thinking that we have been given a chance by some employer who is there because they are better than us. Yeah, right. This is just the sort of attitude that separates your boss from you and keeps that fence there. How else can you break through the barriers of life when the most effective of them all are the ones that you have created for yourself? You must believe in yourself and everything you do. You must believe in yourself and know that one day you will succeed. Be arrogant - because that is the sort of mental position that drives ambition and fuels the fire you need. In some cases you are not here to make friends and be the nice guy/girl that bends over backwards for everyone you see.

Failure is the first step to paradise. That is a mantra I want you to keep locked in the back of your mind. Failure is the only way you can improve yourself - but only if you look at it from this perspective. Don’t slouch your shoulders, don’t look back in anger and immediately search for a way out. I want you to grab failure with both of those hands that nature has given you and look it full in the face and tell yourself you will never ever ever make the same mistake ever again. Keep in your heart as a reminder to push yourself to be better and stronger like never before. Everyone makes mistakes and perfectionists are just failing narcissists in grand robes that will always fall away. Mistake is the card you carry in your back pocket at all times and don’t be afraid to flaunt it around - it builds character and weeds out the weak from the strong.

There are no disabilities, only opportunities. Think you can’t type very well - turn that lack of skill and be a master orator. Physically unfit? Then use your mind to bend steel. Whatever happens to you in life, it could be even an accident that leaves you hurt and breaks your confidence - don’t let it take over your mind and your body. The only true injury is in your mind - when you have accepted your fate and surrender your life to a storm of oncoming failures. I guarantee you that your mind is the most powerful object in your body, it can transform lives and it has granted people with a wealth of riches that is unimaginable.

The only yardstick of success is yourself. Be happy with your life and keep that engine of ambition always fuelled. You will be amazed with the results.