Lance Wallnau

THE NUMBER #1 REASON people do not succeed.

10629872_10153039016279936_2408602750833971622_nTHE NUMBER #1 REASON people do not succeed.
Strange as it seems, most people do pretty good at knowing what they want. They may even have a good plan to get it. The problem occurs in the moment they need to take that one critical step that puts them over the top. What happens? Consistently, the focus and energy SHIFTS from moving TOWARD the vision and instead the energy refocuses on AVOIDING what they FEAR.
Not surprisingly the thing feared most is failure! Soooo some sort of procrastination or other self sabotaging antic shows up to make sure failure or embarrassment never occurs. Ironically, this pattern guarantees that SUCCESS in the manifestation of the vision never occurs either.
This cycle breaks the moment you discover that 90% of humanity will put more effort into avoiding what they fear than they will in perusing what they really want.
Singles stay single trying to avoid rejection. Employees stay under compensated avoiding the rejection of a raise or negative feedback on their performance. And even Pastors drive away the very people who can build their church out of fear of competition and comparison.
The remedy? SEE THE PATTERN and push past the fear. Everything you want is on the other side of a courageous choice!
What do you think?
Lance
 

71 thoughts on “THE NUMBER #1 REASON people do not succeed.”

  1. Yes, this has happened to me repeatedly. Thanks for pointing it out. In the dozen days since I first read this, I’ve seen my procrastination mostly evaporate. Why fear failure when it can be such a valuable sign post on the road to success?

  2. Lance,
    This is a timely post for me.
    Recently I discovered that what had been masquerading in my life as a fear of failure was actually a fear of success; because to excel was to be prideful. Better to maintain a level of mediocrity than risk standing out as exceptional. This led to a number of lies about myself that I had been choosing to believe. That I wasn’t good enough. That I had nothing of value to anyone. That nobody even noticed me. These false beliefs formed the box in which I lived my life.
    I think to follow up with what you were saying about focus, too much energy is spent trying to expand the box we live in. Instead, we should be focused on LIVING OUTSIDE THE BOX ENTIRELY. The box will always be there, but outside the box is the person created you to be.
    Because outside my box I am a bold, confident, victorious man.

  3. Wow, I totally disagree. The problem is not fear but a post modern world view, specifically on what is defined as success. The world will say that relationships, money, status, appearance etc define success, but scripture disagrees. Fear is not a factor when you have a Biblical perspective on what is important and what is success.

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