This seeks to help people towards achieving their goals - whatever those goals may be. It raises 10 crucial questions which one should endeavour to examine and answer.

Everyday, you, and about everyone else on the planet are working towards achieving a goal to improve on your present situation. Our goals are as various as our differing needs and aspirations. Your goal may be to acquire expertise in a certain endeavour; it may be to lose weight or it may be to be the next odd guy in the Guiness Book of Records.

Whatever goal it is you have, you are not achieving it and that is the reason why you sought out this article out of the million web pages on the internet. Worried by your obesity, you had a state-of-the-art "gymnasium" installed in your house. In a desperate attempt to achieve better grades you embarked on a strenuous regime of cramming and coffee. But yet it is all not working. You either seem to lack that will power to do what is necessary or you seem to be working so hard at it, yet miraculously are not achieving any meaningful result.

This article would attempt to proffer solution for your problem and would raise crucial questions which you should endeavour to examine and answer. I have painted ten different reasons of why you are not achieving your goals. We are not going treat any problem in particular like: Why you are still overweight after ten years of fasting; Why you are still unable to make your O'levels after five resits or Why you are still unable to volunteer a 5-minute speech before a very small informal audience of five people. Maybe someday I would pick up an individual problem, but presently we would be exploring why people are not achieving their goals, whatever the goals may be. Alright then, let's get started…

You Are in Love With Your Present Situation
Come to think of it! You do not actually want to change! You may make several solemn proclamations but deep within you, you are enjoying the convenience of your present situation! You've only made this goal because it is noble and it is the ideal but truth be told you are not ready for the disciplined lifestyle, the rigid routine and the sacrifices and abstentions that it all entails?

Many of our predicaments seem to have been born and are thriving on a pleasurable indulgence. If you are planning on losing weight (a very common worry nowadays), then your plight is probably being promoted by an indulgent and easy-going sedentary lifestyle that you can't rid yourself off. Likewise if you wish to make better grades and are not achieving them then you probably still have a deep attachment to the carefree lifestyle and the "focus-less" drifting that so much characterises your present routine!

Change is very difficult to achieve. It is not easy to adopt a new lifestyle overnight. People seem to always prefer the easier, more pleasurable and less-tasking path. It is difficult to find that energy to do what is necessary and so you are pulled in two different directions by two different forces that just can not live together. One - a desire to improve your present situation and the other a desire to lie back till someone pulls you up or till the medical examination report throws you into panic and alarm. And so as always the stronger force prevails. You are not achieving your goal not because you do not think it is worthwhile but because there is another equally strong or stronger force pulling you from behind. If you can stamp a firm foot down and answer the question of which of the two forces is more important you would be greatly helping your cause.

You Want To Start Tomorrow
Sometimes you hardly realise that you are procrastinating! You want to start work at your goal but work wouldn't start now but tomorrow, where tomorrow could extend into eternity. You keep postponing the D-day finding one alibi or the other to spend one more thrilling day in your present situation. And you never get started. Most people actually conceived of their present goal 10 years ago, but one way or the other they are still on the same stair 10 years hence. Somedays they actually start and somedays they abandon or forget the goal altogether. And sadly, the goal that could have taken 5 years to achieve is taking 10 years of preparation! If you have a goal, but want to start tomorrow, then you have to start asking yourself some serious questions. Start Now! Ten years from now you may still be in the same position.

You Do Not Have an Action Plan
A question: If you were driving your car heading to some place but have no idea where "some place" is on the map would you ever get there? Perhaps you would, by accident that is or by some rare stroke of good luck!

 本文旨在幫助人們實現他們的目標---不管什么目標。我們這里提出10個關鍵問題，需要你去認真思考這些問題的答案。

我們每個人天天都在朝一個目標努力，這個目標都是改善現狀。因為我們有不同的期望和抱負,所以我們的目標也不盡相同。你的目標可能是在努力取得一技之長，或者是減肥成功，或者是成為進入吉尼斯世界紀錄的一員。

不管你有什么目標，你現在還沒有達到，所以你會從眾多網頁中選中了這篇文章。你可能一直為肥胖困擾，在家里安裝了最新的健身器材。你夢想能夠取得好成績，所以嚴格要求自己，書本加咖啡來挑燈夜戰。但是這樣也不是特別見效。你可能缺少意志力沒有盡全力；或者你已經很努力了，但還是沒有成功。

這篇文章會盡力解決你的問題，我們會提一些關鍵性的問題，你要認真思考這些問題的答案。我發現了十個人們實現不了目標的原因。我們并不是專門針對以下這些問題：為什么十年后仍然超重，為什么五次重修后還是不能通過O級考試，為什么依然無法在五個聽眾面前自如地作五分鐘的講話。可能以后我會針對某個比較個人化的問題，但是現在我們討論為什么人們達不到目標，不管這個目標是什么。好吧，現在就開始。

·你很喜歡現在的狀況。

想想吧。其實你并不是真的想改變現狀。你可能嘴上說你一些崇高的理想，但是從心底來講，你認為現在的狀況比較好。你制定目標只是因為它很崇高，它是一個理想，但是說實話，你并不打算為這個目標過度約束自己，遵循嚴格的計劃，作一些必要的犧牲和節制。

我們所處的許多困境好象已經存在,而且在我們快樂的縱容中日漸鞏固。如果你在計劃減肥（超重是現在一種很普遍的擔憂），那么你的麻煩可能就是由于你不能擺脫久坐的習慣，這處習慣很容易形成。同樣，如果你希望取得好成績但是沒有如愿，可能是由于你仍然很依戀現在無憂無慮的,沒有明確目標的生活方式。

改變是很難的。一夜之間調整到另一種新的生活方式不是那么容易的。人們似乎總想找到一個更容易，更愉快，不用太費力的捷徑。很難動力去做那些必須做的事情，所以你被兩種相反的力量拉向兩個相反的方向，這兩種力量是截然對立的。一種力量是渴望改善現狀，另一種力量是渴望回到原來的位置，除非有人將你從目前狀態中拉出來或者醫院檢查的結果讓你給你敲響警鐘。哪一種力量更強些，哪一種力量就會占上風。你沒有達到目標不是因為你認為這個目標不值得你去努力，而是因為有另一種同樣強甚至更強的力量將你拉回來。如果你堅決反對并答出這兩個力量中哪一個更重要，這會給你很大幫助。

·總想從明天開始

有時你沒有意識到你在拖延時間。總想開始為目標努力但不是從現在，而是從明天開始，這個明天會延續到永遠。你不停地為拖延找借口，讓每一個有希望改變你生活的日子都停滯不前。你從不開始。實際上多數人十年前就在想他們現在的目標，但是這樣或那樣的原因他們仍然在十年前的相同的位置。今天開始了，明天又放棄或者忘記了目標。十分可惜，花五年就可以達到的目標得花十年去準備。如果你有一個目標，但是想要從明天開始的話，你就得開始嚴肅地問一下你自己。現在就開始！否則十年后你可能仍然還在今天的位置原地踏步。

·沒有具體的行動計劃

問題：如果你要開車去一個地方，可是你對于這個地方在地圖上什么位置絲毫沒有概念，你怎么可能到達那兒呢？可能你會到達，但純屬偶然或者你極度幸運。