Reasons for a Success Tool NOT to Work

To be a success, takes more than a familiarity with the ideas – a recognition that we have heard something like this before – it takes ACTION!

I suppose over confidence comes from a familiarity with certain ideas. As I’ve mentioned, there is a lot of popular psychology out there, and techniques are bandied around like confetti.

Sometimes a student on a confidence building course, or assertiveness training will say they have tried such-n-such a technique and it didn’t work for them. Why might this be?
It might have been the wrong technique for the result they wanted, or the timing wasn’t right for it to work. It may have been they needed the help of an experienced therapist to make it work (i.e. in the case of EFT, NLP or Hypnotherapy), or the tape/CD didn’t hit the right button or was made by an inferior therapist. It might have been that they didn’t get shown how to do it accurately so a vital ingredient was missing. There are many reasons for a technique not to work the first time it is used.

Two of the most common reasons for a success tool NOT to work are because we didn’t build the foundation of the baby steps and/or we didn’t put the effort in to build the muscle of the new behaviour/attitude.
Someone on one of my personal development training courses was absolutely adamant that goal setting and affirmations do NOT work and action is the key. What they missed was the fact that goal setting and affirmations ARE actions, and if we dismiss them – or any of the other success tools I’m going to share with you – then we may be missing a crucial ingredient to our self-fulfilment and well-being.