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How are you doing on your goals of creating wealth? Are you making your plans and staying with them? Are you doing all you can to improve your chances of manifesting money?

If your answer is no, then it’s time for you to assess what it is that’s holding you back. One thing I see a lot of - and something I’m guilty of at times, too - is the lack of persistence. Are you stopping yourself on the path to money and success because you just can’t stick to your goals?

Napoleon Hill wrote about some of the weaknesses that tend to prevent people from being persistent in their goals. Let’s take a look at what Hill said are some signs of this self-defeating behavior.

1. Failure to recognize and to clearly define exactly what one wants.
2. Procrastination, with or without cause. (Usually backed up with a formidable array of alibis and excuses).
3. Lack of interest in acquiring specialized knowledge.
4. Indecision, the habit of “passing the buck” on all occasions, instead of facing issues squarely. (Also backed by alibis).
5. The habit of relying upon alibis instead of creating definite plans for the solution of problems.
6. Self-satisfaction. There is but little remedy for this affliction, and no hope for those who suffer from it.
7. Indifference, usually reflected in one’s readiness to compromise on all occasions, rather than meet opposition and fight it.
8. The habit of blaming others for one’s mistakes, and accepting unfavorable circumstances as being unavoidable.
9. Weakness of desire, due to neglect in the choice of motives that impel action.
10. Willingness, even eagerness, to quit at the first sign of defeat.
11. Lack of organized plans, placed in writing where they may be analyzed.
12. The habit of neglecting to move on ideas, or to grasp opportunity when it presents itself.
13. Wishing instead of willing.
14. The habit of compromising with poverty instead of aiming at riches. General absence of ambition to be, to do, and to own.
15. Searching for all the short-cuts to riches, trying to get without giving a fair equivalent, usually reflected in the habit of gambling, endeavoring to drive “sharp” bargains.
16. Fear of criticism, failure to create plans and to put them into action, because of what other people will think, do, or say. this enemy belongs at the head of the list, because it generally exists in one’s subconscious mind, where its presence is not recognized.

Number 15 is a biggie - one we see all the time especially where making money online is concerned. We’re constantly bombarded by get-rich-quick schemes in our email and at almost every website we visit. Maybe you can get rich quick by being one of the sleazy salesmen of these offers, but you’d be doing it at the expense of the people you sell to.

Maybe I’m out of touch, but I don’t want riches if it comes at the expense of people who are so desperate to escape their poverty that they spend the little money they have on products that do nothing more than take their money and run.

Anyway, take a good look at these pitfalls to persistence and see if you can step out of these patterns to begin thinking rich and becoming rich.

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