Block Stopping Goals and Acheivement

I has been trying to establish a new website called sicic.org for some time.
If you have been to this website over the past few months, you may have seen reference to it.

The truth is, although I had these plans and goals - and I completely believe goals are a hugely beneficial personal development tool - I also had to learn a few things about being unable to work on them. At first, it seemed I was just being lazy and not putting enough effort into it. Then it became harder and harder to focus, or find the energy to go forward with my plans, and at every corner there were blocks to progress - within me and in the outside world. Even the simplest things seemed to take enormous amounts of effort and still didn't work out the way I wanted, if at all.

So the website still is not ready - it isn't even fully functional, never mind the content.... But maybe we are coming to the end of this saga, as I have learned lots about what stops some people from being motivated and also been finding what works - and what doesn't - when it comes to overcoming huge obstacles to attaining our goals.

You might not recognize what I am talking about in this paragraph if you have never experienced it - but if you do, please be assured that you are not alone - and there IS a way through. You may have to check to see if your symptoms are similar to this:

• Physiological reactions to looking into the future (such as flinching).
• Unable to see anything of the future or a reaction to trying to look (such as flinching).
• A compulsion to look away, or do anything other than look at, your future, goals, or plans.
• Whenever you try to be positive, or optimistic, your mind immediately shows you a lot of negative things from the past.
• When you think of the past, your mind quickly remembers a lot of bad times and situations.

The end result of your mind doing all this to you, in collaboration with your body, is you feel terrible whenever you think of tomorrow or yesterday so you are stuck with reacting in the moment, but without a plan or any way of getting things accomplished (even if you can think of things you would like to accomplish, fleetingly). Part of the problem is, you CAN think of the things you would like to do, accomplish and have. So you CAN set a goal - up to the part where you need to set a deadline (which necessitates you looking into the future) which is when the unpleasant feeling arise in your body and your mind goes blank.

The good news is, the past six months has not been pleasant but it has also NOT been in vain. I am now at the stage of learning how to overcome it.

If you are interested in finding out how to avercome the symptoms I've listed above, it would really help if you could let me know. You can contact me via my website at www.self-improvement.org.uk or leave a comment here.