What's the main reason why people fail to accomplish their goals??

[Tim]

There's no 'silver bullet' to explain why people fail to accomplish their goals, just like there's not one to fix that problem.

I'd say common reasons include setting goals that they don't really want, setting unrealistic targets with those goals, not fully understanding what it will take to achieve a goal, not sufficiently planning out how they will get to a goal, committing to too many goals at once, and self-sabotaging.

The reasons these all happen are incredibly complex, and you could base an entire blog around them. Here's a couple of articles just from PM that are relevant: http://postmasculine.com/implementation-intention and http://postmasculine.com/analysis-paralysis

And I guess the answer as to how to overcome those obstacles? Set goals you actually want, be realistic in how much you can achieve in those goals, fully understand what it will take you to reach a goal, sufficiently plan out how you will achieve it, commit to only a couple or one goal at once, and know how you sabotage yourself.

Gross oversimplification right? That's because if you're asking a question this broad, the answer is going to be equally broad. If you've got a specific goal you want help with, I suggest you start a thread about it specifically, or start posting in the official lifestyle goals thread.

Unless your question was purely academic?