What’s holding most people back? What’s causing you to merely scratch the surface of your potential — Surviving vs. Thriving?

While many things sabotage success, there are four usual suspects that handcuff most people’s performance:

1. Fearing what others think
2. Laziness/Low Standards (Lack of Motivation & Urgency)
3. Don’t know what you Don’t Know (unaware of how messed up your subconscious thought patterns are)

…. and No. 4 is a biggie … : Buying into the Mythology of “You Can Be Anything You Want.”

Which is a … BIG. FAT. LIE.

Stay close to your GIFT. Stay close to what God, or a Higher Power, Your natural DNA, your environmental upbringing … gifted you with. Never stray far from your greatest strengths and gifts — although many people do because they are either A) blind to their gifts or B) too caught up with what society and their peers think is popular or will make them rich and famous.

Here is a solid article about identifying your passion, which speaks to Success Sabotager #4. Read and invest in you http://www.inc.com/the-muse/find-your-passion-today-with-these-14-questions.html

I’ve interviewed north of 20,000 people — and every single successful professional I’ve come across, if you examined their childhood and teenage years, you could always see the gifts that they later amplified. You could always see the signs that they would be good or great at the kind of thing they winded up thriving in.