3 Mental Blocks That Keep You From Achieving Your Goals, According to Psychology

It’s a fundamental truth that sometimes the greatest barrier to your success is yourself. Not that you don’t try, aren’t talented, or don’t have the resources to succeed, you do. It’s just that a self-limiting mindset can creep into your worldview without you realizing it, keeping achievement of your goals forever on an unreachable horizon.

Science can help.

Specifically, cognitive psychologist Amanda Crowell, with awareness of what she calls “defensive failure”, which is what happens when you want to achieve something, think about it constantly, but you just don’t do it. It’s not just because you’re lazy or lack willpower, but is often instead from, as Crowell says “three powerful mindset blocks keeping you locked in a cycle of defensive failure.”

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