6 Stinging Truths To Consider If You Haven’t Found Success In Life

Mary Liga
ILLUMINATION
Published in
7 min readJan 17, 2022

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You could be in your own way

It feels hopeless. You set goals, work your ass off, buy into every theory about personal success from popular gurus, and still, nothing seems to work.

This is the plight of those seeking to make something of themselves and hoping to find the right person to show them the “roadmap”.

As if it were that simple.

In The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell contends that most people tend to give up just before they are about to experience their breakthrough.

Maddening isn’t it?

There are some very basic truths on why some people never quite get there.

It isn’t enough to want something, need it desperately, or think positively about how it is going to happen. It takes more.

It may even take an attitude adjustment and a hard look in the mirror.

You may be in your own way.

Here are a few success blockers that may help you determine if you’re the reason.

You have a negative bias

We are naturally inclined to remember the negative situations in our lives more than the positive ones.

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Mary Liga
ILLUMINATION

Margarita-loving copywriter, life coach, home design junkie, and host of The Badass Midlife Podcast. maryjoliga@gmail.com