This seeks to help people towards achieving their goals - whatever those goals may be. It raises 10 crucial questions which one should endeavour to examine and answer.

Everyday, you, and about everyone else on the planet are working towards achieving a goal to improve on your present situation. Our goals are as various as our differing needs and aspirations. Your goal may be to acquire expertise in a certain endeavour; it may be to lose weight or it may be to be the next odd guy in the Guiness Book of Records.

Whatever goal it is you have, you are not achieving it and that is the reason why you sought out this article out of the million web pages on the internet. Worried by your obesity, you had a state-of-the-art "gymnasium" installed in your house. In a desperate attempt to achieve better grades you embarked on a strenuous regime of cramming and coffee. But yet it is all not working. You either seem to lack that will power to do what is necessary or you seem to be working so hard at it, yet miraculously are not achieving any meaningful result.

This article would attempt to proffer solution for your problem and would raise crucial questions which you should endeavour to examine and answer. I have painted ten different reasons of why you are not achieving your goals. We are not going treat any problem in particular like: Why you are still overweight after ten years of fasting; Why you are still unable to make your O'levels after five resits or Why you are still unable to volunteer a 5-minute speech before a very small informal audience of five people. Maybe someday I would pick up an individual problem, but presently we would be exploring why people are not achieving their goals, whatever the goals may be. Alright then, let's get started…

You Are in Love With Your Present Situation

Come to think of it! You do not actually want to change! You may make several solemn proclamations but deep within you, you are enjoying the convenience of your present situation! You've only made this goal because it is noble and it is the ideal but truth be told you are not ready for the disciplined lifestyle, the rigid routine and the sacrifices and abstentions that it all entails?

Many of our predicaments seem to have been born and are thriving on a pleasurable indulgence. If you are planning on losing weight (a very common worry nowadays), then your plight is probably being promoted by an indulgent and easy-going sedentary lifestyle that you can't rid yourself off. Likewise if you wish to make better grades and are not achieving them then you probably still have a deep attachment to the carefree lifestyle and the "focus-less" drifting that so much characterises your present routine!

Change is very difficult to achieve. It is not easy to adopt a new lifestyle overnight. People seem to always prefer the easier, more pleasurable and less-tasking path. It is difficult to find that energy to do what is necessary and so you are pulled in two different directions by two different forces that just can not live together. One - a desire to improve your present situation and the other a desire to lie back till someone pulls you up or till the medical examination report throws you into panic and alarm. And so as always the stronger force prevails. You are not achieving your goal not because you do not think it is worthwhile but because there is another equally strong or stronger force pulling you from behind. If you can stamp a firm foot down and answer the question of which of the two forces is more important you would be greatly helping your cause.

You Want To Start Tomorrow

Sometimes you hardly realise that you are procrastinating! You want to start work at your goal but work wouldn't start now but tomorrow, where tomorrow could extend into eternity. You keep postponing the D-day finding one alibi or the other to spend one more thrilling day in your present situation. And you never get started. Most people actually conceived of their present goal 10 years ago, but one way or the other they are still on the same stair 10 years hence. Somedays they actually start and somedays they abandon or forget the goal altogether. And sadly, the goal that could have taken 5 years to achieve is taking 10 years of preparation! If you have a goal, but want to start tomorrow, then you have to start asking yourself some serious questions. Start Now! Ten years from now you may still be in the same position.

You Do Not Have an Action Plan

A question: If you were driving your car heading to some place but have no idea where "some place" is on the map would you ever get there? Perhaps you would, by accident that is or by some rare stroke of good luck!