NLP | What Stops Change? Thoughts and Ideas

As a part of exploring change and success it's worth exploring what stops people changing. Some thoughts:

1) The change isn't in the individuals best interest (or the best interest of those closest to them)
2) The individual hasn't connected with the benefits of changing over time
3) The individual hasn't connected with the implication of 'not changing' over time
4) The individual doesn't have an effective internal strategy for changing (imagination, sensory strategy, internal dialogue, anchors etc etc)
5) The individual doesn't have an effective external strategy for changing (behavioural strategy)

In addition these may be compounded by:

6) Too many other priorities (no time)
7) Crises which take 100% of indivuals attention away from the change
8) They don't put the effort in to start and maintain the momentum that any change requires
9) They don't get external validation from others, and become demotivated
10) They celebrate too early and loose focus before the change habituates

Luckily good strategies in 4) and 5) can inoculate against 6) to 10) above,

All thoughts welcome,
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