Why People Fail – The Top 3 Reasons – DumbLittleMan

Posted: 31 Oct 2009 02:37 PM PDT

I constantly ponder success and failure. Why does one person skyrocket to success, while another person is never discovered?

What are the underlying factors; why do some people struggle to succeed their entire lives…only to fail?

How can someone guarantee success?

Today I want to talk about the three reasons people fail, these reasons are:
Ignorance
Little Passion, and
No Faith
Ignorance

“I believe all suffering is caused by ignorance.” -Dalai Lama

Most people want to succeed, they just don’t know how. They’ve tried this, and that, but nothing seems to work. They eventually give up, resigning to live a life of mediocrity.

To be ignorant means you don’t know how to succeed. It means you haven’t discovered the system that guarantees your success.

In other words, you’ve not identified the two or three daily task that guarantee you will succeed. When you’re ignorant, you know where you want to go, you just don’t know how to get there.

Why Don’t You Know How to Succeed

When you don’t know how to succeed, it’s typically a sign that you haven’t yet discovered the right mentors to show you the way.

It’s important that you find mentors who’ve done what you’re trying to do, so you can mimic their success strategies to get where you’re trying to go.

Don’t just follow one mentor; the proverb says, in the multitude of counselors there’s safety.

You need to follow several mentors, and discover the commonalities in their path. Pay attention to what they do (more than to what they say).

Robert Kiyosaki and Jack Canfield are both great authors. If you want to be a great author, find out what they did, what common decisions and daily habits caused their books to sell. Success is duplicative; the challenge is identifying the system that guarantees your success.

Once you discover the right system, it’s just a matter of repeating that system on a daily basis until you arrive at your intended destination. If you wanted to lose 20 pounds, you’d first have to discover the system that allowed you to lose 1 pound a week. Then you could follow that system for 20 weeks to achieve your goal.

If you want to become a bestselling author, discover the system that allows you to sell 10,000 books a week, then repeat that system until you arrive at your goal (you may need to do 3 radio or television interviews a day); the key is to discover the system that guarantees your success.

If you never discover the right system, you will never have clear directions on your journey to success; you will fail.

Ignorance = Undiscovered System for Success

Solution: Study multiple individuals who have succeeded, what are the common denominators associated with these individuals. Duplicate their similarities (e.g. If you want to be a great athlete, and you discover that all great athletes practice everyday, then you should practice everyday, etc.). Determine the “system” that caused their success, and duplicate that system.

You have to develop a system (or plan) that allows you to execute (daily) the critical steps that will take you to your desired destination.

Little Passion

“Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.” -Hebbel

Everyone is capable of greatness, but before that greatness can be unlocked, passion has to be unlocked.

Passion drives you to do the impossible; it drives you to work harder and longer than you thought you could. Passion gives you the inspiration to develop creative ideas and concepts; ideas and concepts that have never been conceived before.

Passion gives you the power to overcome the barriers which appear to block success. Passion is the light that guides you at night; passion births your motivation to succeed.

What we call laziness oftentimes is just a lack of passion. You may look at someone who’s outworking you and consider yourself lazy in comparison. But the truth is, you’re probably not lazy at all, you’re just not inspired. You haven’t yet unlocked the passion that drives you to accomplish your goals, the passion that gives you the consistency and determination to succeed.

The more passion you have, the more power you have to fulfill your desires. Your passion will guide you to the fulfillment of your goals.

Lack of Passion = Undiscovered Purpose

Solution: Study yourself to discover your purpose! What are you good at, what do you love to do, what would you do for free, what would you do if you knew you couldn’t fail, what do people compliment you on, what books do you have in your library, what do you love to talk about, what puts a smile on your face, what do you do in your free time; in other words, discover your purpose. Your purpose unlocks your passion; your passion unlocks your desire, discipline, and determination.

No Faith

For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith. -Jesus

“You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith.” -Mary Manin Morrissey

The third reason people fail is a lack of faith. In other words, in their heart of hearts, they don’t believe they will succeed. They are not successful on the inside; they have not yet won the inner game of success.

To have success you must see it, and you must be it, you must be convinced of it. Faith is not wishing, hoping, admiring, loving the idea of; faith is KNOWING that you will succeed! Faith is a knowing, its being fully convinced of something, it’s not hype, it’s not trying to convince others, it’s being convinced yourself!

You have to have success on the inside, before you can have it on the outside; you have to see it and be it; you have to have faith.

One Sign That You Have Faith

People with faith don’t marvel at the success of others. They respect what others have accomplished, but they are not awestruck by their success. People without faith have a grasshopper’s mentality; they see others as bigger than they are.

People with faith recognize successful people as leaders.

People without faith recognize successful people as super heroes. A super hero is someone who is unusually powerful and unique; there ways are beyond duplication.

When you don’t believe you will succeed, you will see successful people as super heroes, as giants.

BUT, when you have faith, you cease to see successful people as gods. You see them for what they are, which is leaders.

And to be frank, there’s nothing special about leaders, leaders don’t glow in the dark, or where a halo. A leader is just a person who’s a little further along on the path that you’re traveling. You respect leaders because they’ve been where you’re trying to get.

Seeing leaders as super heroes is a sign that you have NO FAITH in your ability to achieve the same.

There’s no need to marvel at a leader’s accomplishments, when you can duplicate the same. I’m not talking about “faking like you’re not marveling;” I’m talking about not marveling because you can produce the same results.

If I go outside my home right now, and if I look around, I will see lots of large beautiful homes, but I don’t marvel at these homes, I’m not impressed by them, because I live in one too. We only marvel when we see things as out of our reach, when our mind tells us that it’s unattainable.

But the truth is, nothing is unattainable when you know what you want, understand how to get there, and have the faith to believe that you will arrive at your intended destination.

You have to believe it, you must have faith…many folks have lived with the chickens for so long, they can’t imagine soaring with the eagles. You must have faith in your possibilities!

No Faith = You’re not convinced that you will succeed

Solution: You need to see yourself in your mind’s eye as a “success.”

In your time of daily meditation, visualize yourself succeeding, talk to yourself, encourage yourself; if you’re a Jazz Singer, tell yourself you’re the greatest Jazz Singer of all time; refuse to lose, prophecy to yourself!

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