3 Mental Mazes That Prevent You From Achieving Your Goals

The more we understand ourselves, the more capable we will be of being in command of our lives

Our level of success in life is almost exclusively determined by our thinking. If a person’s way of thinking is lost, they are unlikely to find the success they want. For this reason, let’s explore the three different mental mazes we navigate to find success in life. 

How well we understand and navigate these mazes will largely dictate how we live, how much money we will earn, the relationships we develop, how happy we will be, how healthy we will be and so much more.
 

While there are many noble ways to measure success in one’s life, for the purpose of this article, we ought to narrow our scope. Surely, many people define their success by their health, happiness, or personal relationships, but these are hard to quantify. Consider how we might struggle to measure how good of a brother, friend, mother or neighbor we are. Money, on the other hand, can simply be counted. 

Let’s examine the mental mazes on the path to financial success with the understanding that this approach can apply to just about any measure of success. 

The outer maze is the physical maze. It consists of the real world within which we all live. 

There is no denying the existence of the outer maze. There is a material reality we must live and work within. There are laws we must follow, taxes we must pay, roads we travel on, nations we live in, illnesses to recover from, work we must complete, and so on. 

Yet, at the same time, we exist in the material world, we experience it within our mind. Finding our way to navigate the outer maze means having a better understanding of the things we cannot change. 

Put simply, the inner maze is the self-concept or paradigm we have accepted about ourselves in our subconscious mind. 

This inner maze determines fundamental beliefs about ourselves such as: 

•    How much money do I earn?
•    What kind of work do I do?
•    How much education do I need?
•    How wealthy should I be?
•    How much should I weigh?
•   Do I pay my child’s college tuition, or do they take loans?

We have a paradigmatic belief for every single area of our lives. We have thousands of such beliefs which define who we are as an individual.

This powerful inner maze instructs each of us as to how we interact with the material world. Who we will be in society and what kind of lifestyle we will live is almost exclusively dictated by our subconscious image of ourselves, our image of what we deserve, and our personal belief in what we can achieve. 

This is critically important to understand. 

When one truly understands how the mind works and how the mind dictates our actions and results, one becomes empowered to change when necessary and live the life they truly wish to live. 

So, when you look at your income and your net worth, are you satisfied? Be honest with yourself. Is it enough or would more money be helpful? 

The inner maze is strictly for you to decide. 

If you feel that a greater income and greater savings would be advantageous, the good news is that that is totally within your power and within your reach. You simply redirect your thinking in order to reprogram your subconscious beliefs and you will adopt new behaviors that will bring improved results.

Keep in mind, freedom and happiness is not achieved just because you have become “rich”; it is because you have started to take control of all of the various areas of your life which you felt needed improvement and began the journey to work on them. 

My favorite definition of success is, the progressive realization of a worthy goal. 

If you have worthy goals and are working toward accomplishing them, then you are a success. Hopefully, the ideas I have shared with you here will get you learning more about yourself and how you can take greater control of your thinking, actions, and results. 

The more we understand ourselves, the more capable we will be of being in command of our lives. This is a wonderful journey that lacks any destination. Wherever each of us is, we can always work to be a little better in one way or another.

Dr. John A. Chuback, M.D., is Board Certified in General Surgery and Cardiovascular Surgery. He received his MD from Rutgers University and has been in private practice in Paramus, New Jersey, for 16 years. Dr. Chuback is also a successful entrepreneur. He is the founder and Chief Medical Officer at Chuback Medical Group, founder and managing member of Elant Hill, LLC, and the nutraceutical company BiosupportMD. He is the recipient of the Patient’s Choice Award and Compassionate Doctor Recognition amongst many other honors. Dr. Chuback founded Chuback Education, LLC, which offers audio programs on subjects like weight management, smoking cessation, personal development, and academic achievement, and he is the author of Make Your Own Damn Cheese: Understanding, Navigating, and Mastering the 3 Mazes of Success and Kaboing! 50 Ideas That Will Springboard You To Academic Greatness. Connect Dr. John Chuback Follow @ChubackED