Things that prevent success

1. Fear of failing - You want to win, but you're afraid you might fail, so you hold back.

2. Past hurt that blocks passion - You carry around old pain, and you cannot feel your energy to pursue something new.

3. Discouragement from the past - You've been put down or lost before, and you feel beaten before you start, so your whole heart is not available to you.

4. Mixed motives - You want the goal, but you want it for another reason besides the goal itself, so your heart is not really in the pursuit, but in it for the money, acclaim, status, or something else that is not pure.

5. Conflict over the goal itself - You want it, but you want something else too, or you want it and don't want it at the same time.

6. Shackled by someone else's control - You want your goal, but you are pulled away because someone else has control over your time and energy too.

7. Feelings of inadequacy - Your lack of confidence in yourself causes so much doubt that you cannot move forward wholeheartedly.

8. Incompatible wishes - You want two things at the same time that are incompatible, eg. You want to be married and have a family, and you want ultimate freedom and control over your time and life.

9. Undefined passions - You have never found your real passion that would cause you to work wholeheartedly for it.
The Secret things of God - Henry Cloud

I am in the stage of opening my mind and my heart to the many other possibilities in my life. A closed mind and heart would make me blind or oblivious to the happenings around me that I'm supposed to see.

I'm losing my fight to lose weight, well I wasn't even fighting...oh well...what matters is the heart right? WRONG, people now are so material, obviously they mind seeing overweight people, so when someone tell me I look ok I don't feel good at all cos I know I am not ok.

Oh I thought about a nice story.

You were once a girl without dreams, a girl that can only see whatever's right in front of you. I came along, I told you stories about the world, about how big it is and about my dreams, but you said you are unable to dream about them then.
A few months later, you start to work, you start to see how the world is. You start to be successful in the things you do, you start to have bigger dreams, you meet more people and your life becomes more and more interesting. When you finally reach that place of your dreams, you look back and see the sea of familiar faces you seen throughout your journey. You see them all and smile, not noticing that someone was missing. The person that gave you dreams went missing because he was forgotten, I was forgotten...

Ok a not sooo nice story, but not too bad nonetheless.