Many people set goals in life and have dreams and things they want to achieve. However, not everyone gets to achieve their set goals in the long run, and this is because they couldn’t surmount certain factors that posed obstacles in their paths. It is a common saying that what you do every day should bring you closer to the actualization of your goals. No one in their right senses would discover a problem limiting them and not seek out a proportional solution. If in some way, you find out you are just not meeting your targets, then it’s time to lean back, find out the problems, and tackle them. This article will discuss how to overcome invisible barriers in your finance and business.

What is an Invisible barrier?

To better understand the phrase ‘Invisible barrier’, let us first look at what a barrier is.

According to Collins dictionary, a barrier is a rule, law, or policy that makes it difficult or impossible for something to happen or be achieved. The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines a barrier as a natural formation or structure that prevents or hinders movement or action.

With this knowledge, let us see what an Invisible barrier is.

In conceptual understanding, an Invisible barrier refers to the various non-physical factors capable of retarding or hindering the progress of an idea, activity, resolution, decision, action, and preventing the actual realization of one’s dreams or goals. Some of these barriers create our actions and decisions or indecision, which reinforces a particular pattern of behavior.

—How are invisible barriers created?

Through patterns of behavior, we allow barriers to form, and one interesting fact is that they pile up with subtlety until they become mountains that seem too overbearing. Some of these behaviors are:

• Ignorance and Fear:

Ignorance is a barrier that affects most people. When you have little or no knowledge about a particular field of investment, you might fear venturing into it to avoid a lot of mishaps. You try not to take risks and avoid making losses. This can also be referred to as the fear of the unknown. You create these invisible barriers for yourself when in your mind, you consider a venture too hard or too big and subconsciously tag it as something impossible, or something you cannot accomplish.

• Excuses: It gets tough to see through this barrier when you still use it as the reason you do it. You give excuses for why you’ve been giving excuses that might have landed you in poverty. When you always make ingenuine excuses to bypass certain principles that should guide you in actualizing your goals, you build a barrier that would keep you from coming closer to your much-desired achievements. For example, if you own a business, you are supposed to be responsible and diligent in your duties as a businessman. But suppose you start giving irrational excuses for why you procrastinate, taking specific steps, or implementing the ideas to make your business grow. In that case, you might not expand your business beyond the same level it is.
• Pride and Ego: Excessive pride prevents the growth of other virtues. It becomes too uncomfortable to recognize our shortcomings or mistakes. Pride blind one to alternative possibilities and options and thereby becomes a barrier to progress.
• Lackadaisicalness: This comes with laziness. When you take your life casually as if you have nothing you’re set on to achieve, or when you don’t focus or take your goals seriously, your carefree attitude and indecisiveness will make you think achieving anything is impossible and, by extension, keep you in the deception that you cannot do anything about that.
• Pessimism and Negativity: You can’t see that particular venture turning out something good. This could probably be as a result of what you heard about it. You might be concluding wrongly and setting a limitation on yourself if you always see the bad that could come out of every little thing.

—How do invisible barriers affect you?

Invisible barriers often leave one myopic in their judgment of things because their view is already biased. The most significant effect is that it limits you from unleashing your fullest potential and blinds you from seeing the real possibilities in different opportunities.

—How to break invisible barriers.

• Identify them: This is always the first step in the right direction in solving any challenge. Be blunt with yourself to pinpoint those things you’ve been doing consciously or subconsciously that don’t aid or favor you in your journey for what you want to achieve. It would help if you asked yourself the effects of your actions on your goals. This way, you stop them from layering up.
• Profer adequate solutions: Someone once said that it is insanity to do the same thing repeatedly and expect different results. You cannot want to change an outcome while still making the same failed approaches you made in the past. No! You have to consciously consider your goals and elicit appropriate steps and ways to see them materialize depending on how important you take them to be to you. For instance, probably because you’ve encountered a significant business failure in the past, you then find an underlying factor like fear of failure to be why you haven’t taken steps to expand your current business or find other legitimate means to increase your source of income, how do you go about overcoming that fear? It would be best if you decided to research those investments and put measures in place to see that you are sure of your moves and not frightened by every little thing you hear about.
• Be willing to be hardworking: You will need to put in hard work to anything you do to come out victorious. Success doesn’t just happen, it is planned and prepared for. You cannot be lazy and expect to find success in any aspect of your life.
• Consistency: The frustration of goals that seem to dangle but are beyond reach will usually set in. You have to be dogged and persevere. Follow through with your decisions because you are convinced that that path is what will lead you to the achievement of your goals. However, best you can ensure that you keep to the decisions you made, stick to it.
• Monitor your progress: Keep a journal if you have to or regularly introspect. Appreciate your gradual improvement when you notice them and stay on the path.

—What the Bible says about breaking invisible barriers.

 For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, love, and a sound mind. [2Ti 1:7 KJV]

• Study the word: When you always view from God’s perspective, you won’t fall into wrong habitual patterns that will create barriers for you. Always take corrections from the word. Learn when you should be humble enough to accept your shortcomings, then pray to overcome them with God’s help.
• Put your all trust and faith in God: Lean on God and follow his word and principles for your success. You should trust in God to lead you.

Conclusion.

As a believer, you have the tools you need to succeed. Work at replacing the unhelpful habits you’ve developed over time and identify the patterns of thinking and behavior preventing you from building the life of your dreams. It would be best if you did this as soon as possible because holding on to these habits or notions that are barriers to you might cost you the actual achievement of your goals. Failing doesn’t make you a failure – always remember that. Build resilience and forge ahead always. You could also seek external help from suitable consultation sources.