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Remove Your Critical Constraints<br />
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keep you from reaching your career or personal goals<br />
(around 20 percent) exist outside of yourself. The lion’s<br />
share of these constraints—fully 80 percent—exist within<br />
you. The same is true for your business—80 percent of the<br />
constraints exist within your organization, not outside. If<br />
you have not reached your desired income level, found the<br />
time or motivation to exercise daily, or brought your business<br />
to desired revenue levels, ask yourself the hard questions.<br />
You will very likely find that the answers lie in your<br />
own habits, beliefs, attitudes, and opinions, as well as your<br />
range and level of skills and abilities—or lack thereof.<br />
Successful people identify obstacles within themselves before<br />
looking outside for answers. They ask, ‘‘What am I<br />
doing that is holding me back?’’ or ‘‘What are we doing inside<br />
our business organization that inhibits our progress?’’<br />
Once you set an important goal, your first step is to start<br />
with yourself and look outward from there. You are in control<br />
of your own time and your own actions and attitudes,<br />
and you must be in control of your own business. Your attitude<br />
and energy play a huge role in how far you go in life.<br />
Your ability to affect or control other people or external<br />
events is limited, so always begin with yourself. Examine<br />
each new challenge by asking, ‘‘What is it in me that is holding<br />
me back?’’<br />
Application Exercise<br />
1. What is your major career goal?<br />
2. What are the critical constraints to achieving your<br />
major career goal?
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