Causes of Personal Failure

1. Drifting through life without a Definite Goal

• Not knowing where you are going.
• Find out what God wants for you - one direction.
• Set Goals and keep those goals in front of you.
• As you reach your goal, set new goals.
• Aim at something or you will hit nothing.
• Think BIG!

2. Overlay Curious about another People's Affair

• don't worry about other's social standing.
• The size of their house.
• Their Income.
• Be concerned about that which you have control over.

3. Inadequate Education or Inadequate Information on Your Subject

• You can be uneducated formerly and still have information on a subject.
• Use available Information. Don't go out and build a car on your own.

4. Lack of Self Discipline, (1Corinthians 14;40) " Let all things be done decently and in order."

• Christians are LAX in this area.
• Will cause you to become lazy and good for nothing.  
• Make yourself do something that you don't want to do.
• Without it you won't be very spiritual.

5. Lack of Ambition to Aim High

• It cost no more to shoot at eagles than skunks.
• many people say, "Oh, I couldn't do that."

6. A Negative Mental Attitude in General

• I don't have what it takes
• my personality is not right.
• POSITIVE ATTITUDE
• I feel great
• I could fight a tiger.
• HENRY FORD said, " IF YOU THINK YOU CAN, YOU ARE RIGHT; IF YOU THINK YOU CAN'T, YOU ARE
• As man thinketh in his heart so is he. Proverbs 23:7

7. Lack of Emotional Control

• Lose temper.
• React too rapidly to a situation.

8. lack of Vision and Imagination

• Proverbs 29:18 "Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.
• The world is going to hell.
• Picture in your mind a blue print.