How to Succeed in Life: 12 Reasons People Fail and are Less Successful
Breakaway and I started Niche Titans to help people make money online and become successful niche marketers. In order to become successful in niche marketing we think it’s critical that you understand how to succeed in life.
Here are 12 reasons why people people fail and understanding them will help you become successful not only in niche marketing but in every aspect of your life.
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1. They never define what wealthy means to them.
- How much money do you need you live the lifestyle you desire?
2. Their goals aren’t really goals but a moving target they’ll never hit.
- This is what I need to do, this too, this too, oh and this too. Too many goals.
3. Set goals they’ll never hit or impossible to achieve.
- When someone says, “The Sky is the Limit!”, they mean it. The more the better and they’ll never be satisfied.
4. Don’t believe it can be done and never start.
- There is too much competition already. It’ll be too hard to do and I don’t have enough time. I wish I could but I can’t.
5. Don’t make it a must.
- Making it a must is more than just making it a priority. You have to do it and it becomes essential to your survival. Just like food and water.
6. They don’t create a realistic plan.
- They think or assume they can be successful but do no real research or planning. They just start and “wing it” hoping everything works out.
7. Don’t follow through with the plan.
- Why even create a plan for success if you’re not going to follow it? It’s like making a grocery list and not bringing it with you — you’ll probably forget something.
8. Give others responsibility to make things work.
- If you give someone responsibility you need to make sure they’re taking care of things. If they fail – you fail.
9. Give up when facing a difficult challenge.
- When facing a difficult challenge it’s easy to quit. Don’t quit until you achieve your goal.
10. They fail to conduct their life like a business.
- You should be conducting your life like a business. At the end of the year you need to show profit and not debt. A successful business is showing profits at the end of the year and not increased debt.
11. They allow others optimism or pessimism to effect or control their decisions.
- If someone tells you that it’s too late to make money on the internet are you going to believe them? How about if they tell you that you can make $1,000 a day without doing anything and just a little money using the Forex Autopilot software that sells for only $400?
Do your research and make your own decision.
12. No quality coaching.
- In order to effectively realize your own goals and stay motivated, the help of a quality coach or influence is essential to your success. Raising a well mannered child requires great parenting. In this analogy you are the child and your coach is the parent.
Something else to remember:
“The purpose of a goal is not the goal itself but what it makes of you along the way.”
- Tony Robbins.
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Nice list. Sometimes I’ve shocked that I’ve “made it” insofar as I make a nice living from my little internet publishing business. It seems simple but just having a goal and working a little bit each day toward that goal has really worked for me.
Now if I wanted to make a million dollars a year, I’d have to work a lot harder I suppose, but I’ve found that–for me–”wealth” is more about having the free time to pursue my passions than earning any set dollar amount.
Planning and setting up realistic, reachable goals is very important when building a business or creating a blueprint. i like how you said that goals aren’t really goals but a moving target, that’s so true and I’m one of the people that started out like that as well. through trials and mistakes, we all learn from them and eventually will get things right at the end. it’s a learning process i would say, but those who sit there and say that it could be done and don’t start is only limiting themselves to what they can achieve and have.
Good post Ryan, one of the best yet that I’ve read on NT.
Thanks guys.
Sac, when I worked at Ferguson Enterprises years ago we actually had to watch a video on Pikes Fish Market in Seattle. It was all about enjoying your job and part of the customer loyalty training we all went through. Definitely a great example.
My fav part of the training was this btw:
Q. If a customer calls you pissed off how do you console them?
A. “Oh I’m sorry sir let me try and fix that for you.”
“Yea whatever idiot” – EHHH WRONG ANSWER
A. “Wow, I apologize. This is ridiculous and if that happened to me I’d be mad too.”
“Yea – I knew I wasn’t the only one. What can you do to fix it?”
“I’d be mad too” is a great way to disarm someone.
=P
Good article….I like the book “Fish” (a marketing book, only 100 pages long): it used the analogy of the Pike’s Place Fish Market in Seattle WA……Fish distills success in your career to 4 traits:
1) Choose your attitude: you can be like Eeyore (a Debbie Downer) or an optimist with a smile!
2) Be attentive to customer needs: listen to their desires, be able to act instantly.
3) Make Their Day: in the case of weddings, a once-in-a-lifetime event: self-explanatory
4) Turn work into PLAY
#4 is the most important, because building links is like slinging smelly Fish in the Fish Market.
Those grimy fish mongers were able to turn their humdrum existence into a game…….where they made the Market into a Tourist Attraction where they sing songs, and involve the crowd in audience participation.
Similarly, I have turned the Link Building effort into a form of Game….where I make the process fun and try to make it RELEVANT to my business.
For example, writing an article about something I’m passionate about, or participating on a forum where I have a good contribution to make.
The key is not to spend TOO MUCH TIME on the internet, or waste time on frivolous games or You Tube videos.
I spread myself around to several DO FOLLOW forums that match my KW.
Love the post Ryan.
The challenge that I’ve found with me and many of my clients is that taking great advice like this and being accountable to the actions it implies is more work than people are willing to engage in. A rule of thumb for me and my clients. If you can’t plan it in a page go back and rework it! Another key point is that you can’t improve what you are not measuring. Don’t just establish goals, give yourself a measurement that allows ongoing evaluation and, more importantly, celebration when you achieve something that was predesigned.
Lots of great tools for this level of planning – take a look at m one-page plan for Small and Medium Business http://www.dynamera.com/OnePageStratPlan.html
Its so true, I progressed once I analysed what my
principles & ethics were and worked with those.
Then I moved forward and created a better business.
These are quite enough reasons why people fail in Internet Marketing. May I add one? Selfish is also another reason, all you do are just for you, no helping hand to others. And in social media sites, selfish guy is always alone and he never touches the power of social media.
I agree… there are many selfish people out there. On the flip side though, internet marketers, ESPECIALLY newbie internet marketers, want everything for free. When someone releases something on Digital Point, there’s a million and one people asking for a free review copy. It’s an epidemic. I suspect it’s because most people find out about internet marketing through blogs… a free resource that helps them. But, when that blogger wants to make money himself by promoting a product he’s considered a “sell out.” But, on the flip side of that, there’s those like John Chow who promote crap quite often on their blog, and are indeed making money, but are doing so selfishly because he knows what he’s promoting is crap, but the blind followers who do actually pay for whatever the product is, really don’t end up making more money because they either don’t apply themselves, or likeI said, the product is crap, just out there to make Chow (and the others) some extra money off of their blind followers.
Another problem is, even when you try to help people, share exact tips that have worked for you, show proof that stuff has worked, even offer to help out here and there with stuff they don’t quite have a grasp of….. they just give up, or sometimes never even start.
So where do I stand? I don’t know…. but yah, selfishness is a hindrance, but at some point, selfishness is necessary. But then again, internet marketing newbies wanting continuous freebies annoy me too, ya know? (None of my readers so far have exhibited this ridiculous behavior, as to my knowledge, but just spend a little bit of time in the internet marketing community, and you’ll see the freebie crowd quite often)
Speaking of freebies (this being an offered one)… have you signed up to our newsletter to be entered to win a free niche site?
What make a post like this one so good, is the fact that you start to read it, and suddenly realize you are reading it from the opposite perspective to what the writer intended. For the most part i would imagine a post like this is suppose to be read as wow people do this and make these mistakes. But then for me i started reading it and thinking check that is me. It really does wake you up to some of the mistakes that you are making.
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Good points. I think I slightly disagree with 2,3 and 5 or maybe the way they’re phrased isn’t clear enough for me. Sorry if that’s the case.
@2: I don’t think the problem is setting too many goals, but rather not prioritizing them. If you focus on accomplishing one at a time, it will automatically lead you to the next. But I guess that’s what you meant with not treating them like a moving target, huh?
@3: I don’t see anything wrong with “The sky is the limit”. I found that to be pretty true in my life experience. I think it more comes down to saying it and adopting the proper, coherent attitude for also living it.
@5: Strongly disagree. I believe thinking of doing things as a must can often be a big obstacle. It can become too much pressure and stress – until you collapse. I’m more along the lines of what Sacramento Wedding said: Turn work into play. I believe one reason why people fail is because they don’t see or make their job FUN. How can you enjoy something when its a “must”?
I pretty much agree with the rest. I guess the key – as usual – is to strike a balance. Now having said all that, consider that I’m a newbie.
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