As important it is to feel that you have achieved a certain goal and to make you feel that way every day until it becomes second nature. You then need to let go and detach yourself from it. Often I only realise that I have achieved a goal long after I completed or even surpassed it.

Action is key. Concentrate on always taking the next step towards your goal, even if you don’t know how you will ultimately achieve the goal. Just take that first step with belief.

1) Motivation: You don’t really want to finish the goal,
2) Mental Block: You do want to finish the goal, but a life lesson from your past taught you that the goal you want to attain is wrong, evil or otherwise undesirable,
3) Maxed out: You just can’t find time anywhere to do the things you need to do.

Motivational problems require that you take a closer look at the reasons you have for attempting your goal. Let’s say your goal is creating a successful blog. If writing is not one of your core competencies, it’s going to be hard to accomplish it, but you can do it by focusing on the prize. The clearer you can visualize the prize, the easier it is to pay the price. Anyone who’s gone through medical school can probably relate.

Mental Block problems are harder to deal with. If your goal is to make a million dollars, but if there’s a part of you that believes that you are not worthy of that much money, or that money is morally wrong, then you are internally working against yourself and you will sabotage yourself on the way to your goal. Many of these beliefs and attitudes, let’s call them mindsets, are formed when we are young, and we are really not conscious of them. The long way to eliminating mental blocks is therapy, the short way is through affirmations. Simply by saying “I am worthy of making and having a million dollars,” you cause your subconscious to question and maybe even reject its old programming. In the meantime, being aware of how you feel and identifying where those feelings come from will bring your automatic assumptions up for review. Then your conscious self will work on a new mindset that agrees with your world as an adult, rather than your world as a child.

Maxed out: If you don’t have time for the things you love and want to do, you need to improve your life and achieve focus. I have two recommendations for you, a book by James Ray, called Harmonic Wealth: The Secret of Attracting the Life You Want, and a free audio called Your Million Dollar Desire, that’s available on my website.

Once you’ve figured out what it is that you truly want, I’d recommend a book by David Allen called Getting Things Done. He makes a science of the technical side of reaching goals.

Hope this all helps. Just asking the question about how to finish goals is really a great step in the right direction. Good luck.