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4 Ways Your Brain Can Stop You From Achieving Your Goals
And how to fix it
Your brain is a powerful machine.
No, I don’t mean how it seamlessly coordinates all of your body’s functions and helps you think and remember things.
Your brain can determine whether you achieve your goals or not.
Did you know that procrastination, the desire for instant gratification, pleasure-seeking, and other behaviors that often hinder people from achieving their goals are the result of some highly complicated processes inside the brain?
Because of the way your brain is designed to respond to situations, it can sabotage or trick you into not doing things that will help you succeed.
Here are four such ways your brain can stand in your way.
1. Your brain hold you back when you visualize about outcomes instead of process
When done incorrectly, visualization is the most common ways your brain unwittingly prevents you from reaching your goals.
Visualization is a highly effective mental technique. However, psychologists say that imagining an outcome as already achieved is a form of self-sabotage.
