Top 5 Reasons Why Your Life Will Remain Stagnant

by Samuel · 28 comments

Have you being wondering why no good changes have being happening in your life? Everybody wants to live a fun and fulfilled life but not everybody will live that kind of life. Why? Only the people who are ready for a change and people who are smart can live a great life.

Life is too short to bother ourselves about it, but as long as we are still living, we must try to live our life to the fullest by living a stunningly great life. Besides it’s not a crime to live a great life, it’s a thing of joy. If you have always wanted a change in your life, and yet you are still rocking the back seat instead of you to move forward, below are the reasons why you are not moving forward:

  • Listening To Chicken Mindset:

How do you expect your life to move forward when you share your feelings with and pay attention to people with the chicken mindset? These are the kinds of people who will never for once give you the right mindset or confidence to do things you feel like doing.

When you listen to these kinds of people, there is no way your life can get promoted. The fact is, for you to live a great life; you have to pay no mind to the chicken mindset people. People who will not add value to your life. Detecting the people with the chicken mindset is very easy; by their word of mouth and behavior you shall know them. If you notice that the person who you think he or she will help make your life a better one is not helping you to yield good results, then you have to leave the person and look for a better person who you can hang out with.

  • Your Friends:

Don’t be surprise to hear that your friends are part of the things that’s pulling you backward. That’s why it’s always advisable to choose your friends carefully. Your friends are people who will make you and break you. Like they do say “Tell me who your friends are, and I will tell you who you are”. That’s the fact.

Friends who you think are the people who will stand by you and give you their best are people who might stab you on the back. So never trust anybody. Even if true friends are rare but that doesn’t mean you can’t live a great life. All you have to do is to exhibit good behavior and try to make friends with people who can help you make positive changes in life. If you should notice that your friends are not worth to be called friends, then you have to stay away from them.

This doesn’t mean you should ignore them just like that; you will be doing it gradually until you are able to get yourself out of the chain you are being tied down with. For instance, if they ask you to hang out with them try to avoid hanging out with them and if they want to do other things and they call you to join them, try to avoid it. As times goes on, you will be cut off from that bondage.

  • Your Fears Are Always Large:

It’s a good thing to have the fear in you but it’s a bad thing to make your fear a large one. When your fears are larger than your confidence how will you move to greater heights? I doubt if you will. Always try to fight back the little voice that is trying to impose the fear in you so as to avoid putting you in a mess.

Everybody do feel the spirit of fear but successful people who really understand it knows that, it’s a bad thing to make their fear larger than their confidence. Always try to look for a way to calm yourself down when you are trying to do something’s, because it will bring out the braveness in you. So never let your fear hit you down! Try to challenge yourself by doing things you are afraid of.

  • Impossibility Is In Your Dictionary:

When will you believe that nothing is impossible?  Many people have a great idea but when they share it with somebody and the person, who they share it with told them that it’s impossible to execute that big idea, so they decided embrace the act of impossibilities and forget about the idea.

If you can follow your gut and believe in yourself, you will never listen to external forces that don’t want you to get the best. If Mark Zuckerberg had embraced the act of impossibility, do you think there will be any thing like Facebook? I doubt if there will. Don’t be scared to execute the great idea you have in you. If at all something didn’t go right, you will learn from it and through that process you will get to know how things can work well for you.

“Impossibilities is a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools”- Napoleon Bonaparte.

In this world, anything is possible, that’s if you believe but if you don’t believe then you can never win big.  Stay away from the impossible mindset or people.

  • You Never Get Social:

How do you expect to move forward in life when you don’t get social with people who can add value to your life? Let me tell you one thing, to make it big in this life, you must be ready to rock with people who will change your life.

You don’t just sit down there and start expecting the person to come and meet you; I bet the person will never come. There is nothing like manner from above. You have to look for the right people who can help add value to your life and not the kind of people who will make you hate your life like they hate theirs. So my advice for you is to get social with good people and stay away from the bad people.

Speak Your Mind:

What steps are you taking in order to live a great life? Feel free to share your opinion by commenting below. Thanks so much.

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Bryan Thompson February 9, 2011 at 7:38 pm

Samuel, great post, man. I have been guilty on relying on many of these in my life. And I’m embarrassed to say I was probably on the chicken mindset – too afraid of what others would think of me, Always concerned I wouldn’t be accepted. Leadership isn’t about acceptance. It’s about deciding to lead.

On a different note, I had subscribed to your Email updates but for some reason, I haven’t been getting them. I’ll give it another shot!
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samuel February 12, 2011 at 1:35 pm

Hi Bryan,
Stay away from the chicken mindset so as ti break new grounds! Thanks so much for the comment.
P:S I’m so sorry for not sending the update. I will do that very soon. I’m preparing for my exams because I will be writing them this Monday. Thanks so much!
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William Tha Great February 9, 2011 at 7:45 pm

Hey Sam,

Thanks for another wonderful article!

I want to start off by saying great title for your article. You point outvexcatly when many peoples life remains at a stand still. For many including myself at first it was the people I was hanging out with. They were only pulling me down and like you said I really couldn’t trust any of them. You can tell of the top if a person only cares about themselves, because they will always be looking to benefit themselves.

Impossibility will kill your success, and that is why I always tell people the first thing you need to take a look at is the mindset you have. Your mindset is where it all starts with wouldn’t you agree?

Thanks again!

God bless,
William Veasley
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samuel February 12, 2011 at 1:38 pm

Hi William,
I’m glad you stay away from them. Sure, impossibility do kill success. Thanks so much bro. Have fun :)
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Peter J February 9, 2011 at 11:31 pm

Awesome post Sam,
In no way do people ever recognize just how amazing you are without you mentioning it. No point complaining about how your so good at something without telling the world about it; that’s the problem with what people do. So we develop huge fears and don’t get social.

Loved the post, keep it up! :)
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samuel February 12, 2011 at 1:39 pm

Hi Peter,
Love your comment bro. That’s why we must not let our fears kill us! Thanks so much for the comment. :)
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sem media February 10, 2011 at 11:35 am

read the post
keep posting
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Stuart February 10, 2011 at 11:50 am

I admit, I used to be a real bad chicken when I was younger. I used to run away from challenges instead of face them, I used to take the easy way out from work, cut corners, even skip college classes.

I’ve learned that if you want something, you’ve gotta work for it, no matter how hard it may seem. I put this philosophy to use now as often as I can. After all, “impossible” isn’t in my dictionary ;-)
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samuel February 12, 2011 at 1:40 pm

Hi Stu,
Glad to hear that. You just have to keep striving till you dwell on the mountain top. Thanks so much bro!
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Lakshmi Muralikrishnan February 11, 2011 at 6:33 am

Interesting post, actually we have the same life story. Seriously I very impressed for this post Friends topic because my parents and relatives lot of times advised choose your friends carefully. You said truth lines true friends are rare but that doesn’t mean you can’t live a great life. Great line.
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samuel February 12, 2011 at 1:44 pm

Hi Lakshimi,
Choose your friends carefully in order not to regret in the future! Glad you love the post. Thanks
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Adam Paudyal @ endeavor online February 11, 2011 at 6:49 am

Chicken mindset..haha Samuel I love it man!

You are so right about this. A lot of times people that are obstructing you from succeeding or have chicken mindset are people we are close to – you know friends relatives and so on.

Real eye opener here bro..Spot on about the saying; Tell me who your friends are and I will tell you who you are…

Good job out you..Keep it up!
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samuel February 12, 2011 at 1:45 pm

Hi Adam,
I’m glad you love the post! Thanks so much bro for the comment. Have fun :)
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Patricia@lavender February 11, 2011 at 7:02 am

Hi Samuel

Way to go :-) Choose your friends wisely cos we do become like the people we mix with! Also, to succeed with blogging and a business; social networking is a necessity. Being social and approaching others will show we care.

I have made some amazing connections through commenting on blogs, emailing those who are struggling and those whose efforts I have really appreciated. I have been rewarded with encouragement, help and genuine friendships :-)

Patricia Perth Australia
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samuel February 12, 2011 at 1:47 pm

Hi Momma,
Keep hanging out with the nice people on earth :) Thanks so much for the comment!
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nazimwarriach February 11, 2011 at 5:29 pm

An Awesome post, Samuel.
Yes these 5 things are major hindrances in your way of triumph. We should be very careful while making friendship. Keep in mind that you should care for loyal friends and not for courteous ones.
You have well quoted the saying of Napoleon Bonaparte. Yes we should fear from impossibilities before starting our journey.
Nazam Warriach
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samuel February 12, 2011 at 1:50 pm

Hi Nazim,
I’m glad you love the post! Thanks so much for the comment. Have fun :)
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Hector Avellaneda February 12, 2011 at 6:16 pm

Hey Sam, interesting point you made about friends sometime being the reason why we may not able to make progress in out lives.

I’ve always said that in life there are only 5 types of people

The Refreshers – Those that strengthen your faith and energize you.
The Refiners – Those who sharpen you and clarify your vision.
The Reflectors – Those who mirror your energy, neither adding nor subtracting from it.
The Reducers – Those that try to diminish your goals and efforts to their own comfort level.
The Rejecters – Those who do not believe, understand or purposely try to look for a flaw in you plan; the one I like to call the “cynics”.

Our goal should be to surround ourselves with the Refiners and Reflectors and avoid the Reducers and Rejectors as much as possible. Reducers and Rejectors are like a bunch of crabs in a bucket (ever notice how they interact) – they pull down anyone who tries to get out!
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Eugene Farber February 12, 2011 at 7:35 pm

Hector,

As I was on my way to respond to this post I came across your comment. This is AWESOME.

I think people underestimate the effect of surrounding individuals. This is a great way to categorize the type of people you can have around you.
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Anne Sales | Coupon Codes February 14, 2011 at 1:00 pm

Sometimes people need to reach rock bottom failure before they spring up higher than ever. I’m one of them. I hope I will be springing up higher this time. Thanks, Sam, for the knock in my head.
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Walter February 16, 2011 at 12:42 am

I think you have hit me with the not being social aspect. Being an introvert myself it’s hard for me to really socialize. Perhaps I need to overcome this weakness. :-)
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Praveen@Techperk February 17, 2011 at 10:14 am

My life was stagnant in 2009 when i completed by engineering, the biggest thing that made is my fear to do things, now it is no more :)

Good post Sam
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Navya February 18, 2011 at 6:57 am

Hi Samuel,

The Top 5 reasons are really good and infact they are true..
I read some of your posts before and Glad to read this post too!

Thank You
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John February 18, 2011 at 10:34 pm

Hey Samuel,

I couldn’t agree more with you on your point about avoiding people with a chicken mindset. People that don’t add value to your life won’t help you experience the positive change in your life that you want.

That is why I have started to try and get more social only with people that I believe can add value to my life. Thanks for sharing the great advice.
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Elias February 19, 2011 at 9:38 am

Hi Samuel

Great post indeed, not being social is for sure a key reason you will remain stagnant. Althought, some people are more social than others by nature, those who are not need to keep trying.

Elias

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Jon February 26, 2011 at 5:29 am

I agree on having to be social. There are so many great opportunities and educational experiences involved with getting to know new people. Not only will you learn from them but by opening yourself up, you can enrich their lives so that they may grow.

Ah, and friends. The people you surround yourself with can have such a deep impact on your life. You’re right, Samuel, choose your inner circle wisely.

The step I took at the turn of this year was trimming some of the extra social fat I had in my life. There were some connections I had that drained me and never fed my soul. When you are constantly pouring yourself into people and they take (and expect more) it just isn’t healthy. Care flows both directions.

Parting ways with those who drain you can give you a clean slate and make room in your life for people that will reciprocate your level of attention and care.
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Maria Pavel April 14, 2011 at 2:16 am

I understand perfectly. When i first started a business, all my friends and family were saying i don’t have what it takes. I’m not motivated enough, i don’t have enough money, it’s too risky.
Well, i proved them wrong!
But it’s really easy to listen to these people and chicken out, most people do.
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daron April 27, 2012 at 8:25 am

Thanks for the post Samuel. No matter how many times I hear this I always seem to forget.

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