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Every day we make thousands of choices. Some are conscious desions but most are subconscious habits we have formed over the years that are either helping us move forward or holding us back. The hidden cost is real. You just have to look closer.

I have investigated my own hidden costs and came to realise there are some eye-opening hidden costs that I make each day without relising. It comes from many different areas of your life. It can be eating that sugary sweet pudding or watching that extra episode of your favourite show. The hidden cost is there from health to time focussing more meaningful projects.

Now eating a chocolate bar or watching Netflix now and then isn’t going to cost you much. But you overeat and or binge-watch on a daily basis then you are going to see hidden costs of this action start to affect your health and growth.

How you can find yourself in this position for example overeating is because at the moment you are not seeing the consequences of your actions just the feeling you getting in that moment. As the weight piles on it can take an outside voice to notice how much you have changed for you to realise the cost of you eating unhealthy for so long.

That’s why it’s important to be conscious and self -aware of your desions your making each day and what hidden cost your happy to accept and which ones you have to avoid at all cost.

The Iceberg Factor

You are probably very familiar with the iceberg picture where underneath you see all the choices someone has to make to reach the top that no one sees. Then at the top is all the success that everyone sees. This applies to your life. underneath the iceberg is all the decisions you have ever made and at the top is what everyone sees.

Your life is either in a place you want and is happy or you are in a place you don’t want to be and are unhappy. The reality is this is based on the choices you make each day and every choice you make will have a cost.

I too have looked at my life and on reflection have not been happy with the outcome. This has come down to two things, comfort and fear.

Making Decisions From A Place Of Comfort And Fear

When we make decisions from a place of comfort and fear we are more likely to get outcomes we won’t like.

If we always choose the easy road out of comfort we will always receive nothing of value back. The hidden cost will be regret of time wasted, financial scarcity and unhappiness in the long term by the short term decisions at the moment that are made.

The seconds desions making tool people will find a huge hidden cost is making choices out of fear. A fear that I need to take this job or I won’t get another chance, a fear I have to make this investment or I will miss out. Too many people think that there is not enough to go around. This mentality got its claws into me and it’s actually not true. You will go on Instagram, want a job at Google or join a competitive market and think there is no space for me to join. Where in fact there is always room. There are many examples of this is just take hard work and better choices to unlock the hidden costs of more improved actions to attain the goal.

That’s why when analysing your own hidden costs. Eliminating comfort and fear-based habits and choices from your life will clear the way for the life you want.

Be Clear On What You Want

Before you find out what hidden costs in your own life is holding you back. First, you have to create a clear picture of the future you want to have. If it’s open up a bar on a beachfront compared to creating the next Tesla or Amazon it’s going to take completely different strategies and more rigorous discipline for the latter.

So spend time creating your vision. Then you can get to work on what you need to do. In order to reap the benefits from choices, you will have to make.

Steps To Analysing Your Own Hidden Costs

Step 1 – Review your Hidden Cost

Alongside your vision and goals, you have set yourself. Start to analyse all the choices you make in your life that would stop you from achieving your goals.

For example, if you want a six-pack body, eliminating excess sugar from your diet is a hidden cost you will have to eliminate.

I would go for the big ones first when looking at your hidden costs. The habits in your life that would make a huge difference in your life if you eliminate them.

Step 2 – Keep And Create Winning Habits

After finding all the hidden costs that will affect the attainment of your goals. Now it’s time for the exciting part of looking and creating new habits that will help you achieve your goals.

So first analyse the habits you have. If the goal is to become a millionaire by 40. You can see already you have a good habit of investing in an index fund. The drawback is this will make you a millionaire by 60. Creating a new habit of investing more each month will help you to retire at 40.

Finding already good habits and creating new ones is the dream ticket to attain the goals you have set for yourself.

To Conclude

Every choice you make will have a hidden cost. The trick is finding the cost that helps you reach your goals. Too many people go through life making bad decisions and wonder why there are not achieving their goals. Don’t be like them. Make the changes needed by getting rid of habits that hold you back. Then create new ones that will help you succeed.

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In today’s article, 5 things you must not do in life that stops success.

I will explain the preventive measures we need to apply to move our life forward. We should look at all the things we must stop that holds us back. Looking at it as anchors that weigh us down so much that it stops us from succeeding. Only then can you find solutions to move forward.

I hope this article opens your mind to self-awareness and a change you have been searching for.

What Prevents Success?

For me, this is a simple question to answer. The answer is YOU! There’s always obstacles and different challenges we all have to face in different ways. What gets in the way the most is ourselves. Whether it’s doubt, fear or a lack of self-confidence. It’s our own mind that needs to change to be a success.

I think we all deal with this. But the people who do succeed are the one’s who don’t let it control them and find ways to prevent it from surfacing or find ways to push through it.

The human brain will always let you know when it perceives something as being dangerous but you always have the choice to listen to it or ignore it and do it anyway. In some cases this is good but when it comes to overcoming our fears we silence that voice. For example, the brain can only see you jumping out of the plane as danger whereas your human part knows that you are skydiving.

Working together with your brain to understand your life by knowing the difference between danger and progress can help you achieve a lot more success.

To make sure our mind doesn’t hold us back. There are 5 things you must not do in life that stops success that I will discuss below. Once we get out of our own way. Then we can enjoy all the successes we have envisioned.

5 Things You Must Not Do In Life That Stops Success

1. Don’t Live With Regret

One of the most painful things the older generation say is they regret the things they didn’t do or regret not being happier. No one wants to get old and have major regrets. That’s why you have to look at it every day as if this was the last day on earth.

This thinking will unlock a feeling of urgency and purpose. Because when you don’t think like this you can use good old procrastination and say to yourself I will do it tomorrow. This mentality does not understand we only have a short time on Earth.

That’s why you should make it your life purpose to take more risks, to do the things you love to do, spend it with the people you love and travel to the places you have always wanted to visit.

Get out of your own way and make this happen. I promise you, you won’t regret it.

2. Don’t Live With Fear

Fear can affect us all in different ways. It can be great when sensing real danger like spider-sense but it’s not too good at switching off when we need to overcome our fears to progress.

That’s why we can’t always listen to fear, we must rationalise for the world we live in today not the one we lived in thousands of years ago. Living with fear holds people back so much from pursuing their goals and wants in life.

That’s why we need to chase our discomforts because on the other side of fear you experience a whole range of different emotions, like happiness and proudness.

So get out of your own head and do the things you want to do and when fear pops up again let it flow through you and do it anyway.

3. Don’t Live With Too Much Comfort

We live life these days like never before in human history. The kings and queens of the past might even be jealous. But one thing successes hates is comfort because nothing of progress comes from a mindset of comfort. Why? Because you will never push your self into a position where you might fail or make mistakes.

That’s why you should seek and chase discomfort as your life depends on it. Basic comfort needs are great but you need to find ways to condition yourself to not let this become everything you are. Just watch Rocky 4.

Comfort breeds complacency you just have to look at sports stars who let their comforts change them into different people. Whereas what got them to the top was the discomfort. Don’t let comfort suck you in or else you will be trapped and lead an unfulfilled life.

4. Don’t Live With A Mindset Of What Always Was

Living in the past can seriously hold you back if you let it. Just like the anchor analogy. Being anchored to the past stops any progress in the present and future. You have to learn to go to the past for good feelings.

The world changes, people change and the ability to adapt to the changing times is crucial to keeping ahead of the game of life. If you just keep doing what you did in the past then watch your business crumble.

We see it all the time with retail giants having to sell up because they didn’t go online. Instead of having a mindset, this has always been the way you should have what could be a new way.

5. Don’t People Please

Deep down we all know what we want to do with our life. But sometimes our attachment to our family’s wants can hold us back. If we people please too much we will surely affect our mental health and become unhappy with the person we are becoming that’s not who we are. So don’t people please. Look out for you and what you want from your life.

Over To You

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These are my 5 five don’ts. What are yours?

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Hi, I’m Adam

I’ve spent over 10 years coaching and mentoring people within sport and business. I have many life skills that I have developed and I want to pass these skills on so people can find their best self. I believe it all starts in the mind and I write about valuable tools and strategies to help people grow in this area.