Breaking Through Barriers - How to Overcome Resistance and Achieve Your Goals
Breaking Through Barriers - How to Overcome Resistance and Achieve Your Goals
Your perception of change can be frightening
because it can take you into the ‘unknown.’ However, positive behavioural changes can bring healthy lifestyle benefits to you. Find out how you can take a transformative approach towards increasing your well-being.
Change is required for personal growth. However, it’s not always easy to identify and to make the necessary changes needed for you to grow. Many people struggle to overcome their barriers because their level of awareness doesn’t indicate that they need to create any sort of change for themselves and they get comfortable with their lifestyle, yet many times their health and happiness get compromised.
4 OBSTACLES TO CHANGE
Common obstacles to change that most people experience have to do with feeling accepted, competent and in control which are associated with our basic survival needs. *
Cognitive - growing up developing low self-esteem, perfectionist qualities and people pleasing traits.
Behavioural - creating self limiting habits that become engrained into your mind.
Emotional - resorting to feelings such as anger, frustration, guilt and shame when you fear change or have failed at something.
Environmental - surrounding yourself with people that are negative or unsupportive, being in environments that keep your in your comfort zone.
Often, people are unaware about their various limiting behaviours, and many types of influences can either strengthen or weaken one’s ability to change.
SELF-EFFICACY
To be able to identify a need for change and to effectively progress through changes, you need to develop self-efficacy which is the belief in your ability to succeed in any particular situation.
Motivation and self-regulation are intertwined with having high self-efficacy. When you develop high self-efficacy you become motivated to overcome your obstacles and you’re persistent in making the required changes in order to be more satisfied with your life’s endeavours. Self-efficacy also increases your self confidence, and renews your optimism.
