Spiritual Blocks to Achieving Your Goals

When we set goals, we make plans on how to achieve the goal and add a timeline to when we should achieve it. Then we start taking action.

But we can run into issues with making progress at the pace we want. Or even making any progress at all!

This can make us feel impatient, frustrated and wondering if we are broken – not good enough to achieve it.

When our patience and frustration with the timeline kicks in it makes it harder to stick to the plan. We end up blocking ourselves because of attachment to the outcome and from negative thinking.

Before you give up let’s look at some spiritual reasons why you might not be seeing results, and what you can do about these possible blocks.

Spiritual Blocks to Goal Timing & Achievement

Incarnation Plan

Before you come to earth, you determine what your goals are for this lifetime.  In fact, we often plan multiple lifetimes at one time so we can make steady progress on our souls’ development. Look at this like your life’s to-do list.

If the goal that you are working on is in direct conflict with your incarnation plan or not leading you to one of your planned items then your guides might be blocking the progress of this goal.

So, what can you do about this?

Unfortunately, not a lot – I know this isn’t what you want to hear. I have been there and know that frustration. So, let’s talk about possibilities options.

First and foremost – you do have free will, so if you want this keep going. It simply means that your plans for this life will have to be completed in another lifetime. And you may not have the easiest path to achievement with what you are working on.

Second, work with your guides to understand if it is something you could do in addition to your other incarnation plans. Incarnation plans aren’t the only thing we are allowed to do, so there might be time for this goal.  Think about a vacation you may have planned. You book three activities ahead of time, but that doesn’t mean you don’t do anything else. You can add activities while on vacation.

That is how your incarnation plans are set up. The key to this is that depending on the goal, it might distract from the incarnation plans.

Third, if the goal is in direct conflict the best thing to do is probably to redirect yourself to a goal that is better aligned to your incarnation plans.

Not sure you can hear your guides correctly in regard to your incarnation plan, check out my mediumship and channeling services.

Life Purpose

The next spiritual block is your purpose. Your purpose is different than your incarnation plan. Your purpose is a broad category of what you want to came here to do.

A lot of times we think it is one specific thing, such as “I have to be an elementary school teacher.”  That isn’t the way that purpose from a soul perspective works.

Instead, it is something broader like I want to help children be their best, and that can be achieved in many different ways. You might be a teacher, or you could be a pediatrician or a performer who works for Disney.

There are many ways that your purpose can manifest in this life.

With that said, if what you’re working on doesn’t have anything to do with your purpose, then it might not be working because you’re supposed to be going in a different direction.

My Example

To help you better understand this here are my incarnation plans and purpose and how that has shown up in my life:

My incarnation plan was to focus on healing work with the goal of in the next few lifetimes I would be able to move into ascended master. There has been A LOT of healing I have had to do (and am still doing).  This included both emotional and spiritual healing. And it has been so much that I now have a standing monthly session with my mentor/healer.

My purpose is to help people see their own truth. (Truth being who they are and what they came here to do.)

I started life with a finance career. I LOVE investing and finance. But nothing I did career wise ever seemed to work the way that I wanted it to.

Around 2014 I started a dark night of the soul and spiritual awakening. This led me to the healing work I had planned to do for my incarnation plan. As I grew spiritually and healed, I was able to see my own truth. This truth made it clear why my finance career didn’t work. It wasn’t tied to purpose!

I did continue to work in finance while I began training in the spiritual tools I was personally using. And I did build in more spiritual aspects with the clients I worked with, making one of the “requirements” of working with me was they would do a life plan to start thinking about their life direction and purpose.

Finally, after training, I was able to fully pivot myself to the work I do today that aligns with my purpose.

I do want to point out you can adapt your purpose in just about any way, as I did with my wealth planning clients. I could have stayed in finance and added even more spiritual elements. However, I chose to go in a different direction. So, you may find that you can keep going with your goal, you just need to make some adjustments.

Curses or Oaths

Curses and oaths will directly impact how we achieve our goals. A curse can be set that you can’t do something or that you won’t be able to have a certain result. And that will stop your progress. An oath is a promise your soul makes that if not phrased the right way can be for all lifetimes and not just the current life.

Here are two examples of the above:

Curse: I had a client where we uncovered an old ancestral curse that blocked the industry, she was trying to work in. So, when she tried to take a side job in that area to get experience, she would get sick or it would be canceled. She could eek out some small wins if it was volunteering, but even that was difficult.

Oath: I had one that I wouldn’t make money healing people. It was from a time in history when the healer was taken care of by the community and didn’t need an exchange of money like we do today. So, even though I was working on what my purpose was, it was blocked because of the old oath.

After removing these, we both saw results much easier.

Life Contracts

We can make life contracts with other people before we come into this world or when we are here. As part of the incarnation and purpose planning, we will coordinate with other souls to help each other with different parts.

Depending on how those are set-up they can end up lasting many lifetimes. This can cause problems as they can stop you from achieving your dreams if they are directly in violation of the contract. They act like a curse, but with a bunch of spiritual law implications if not done.

We also make life contracts, often unknowingly, with others in this life. When you say something like “I promise to help you any way I can”, that spiritually becomes a contract. (Side note: always put a time limit on your commitments! You could say “I promise to help you any way I can in this lifetime or until we decide otherwise.” Or better yet set it to the specific thing. “I will help you emotionally through this divorce.”)

Over time the more contracts that are created the more problems they cause.

Luckily, they can typically be adjusted to be complete or adapted to not impact you as much. Keeping in mind that each one is different, so how it is handled will be different for everyone.

How can you tell if your struggle with a goal is because of a spiritual block?

If you have tried just about everything, and you find yourself saying “this makes no sense” – chances are you have a spiritual block.

For example, you may have a goal to become the first chair violinist in the symphony of your town.  You practice hard, work with teachers and mentors, get feedback from your conductor and apply every time the chair is open. You even have applied in other towns so you could gain experience elsewhere. You have been doing this for 10 years and nothing is working. There is a strong chance there is a spiritual block impacting you. It could be you are supposed to be working with nature for your purpose, or that your incarnation plan included you learning about struggle.

Another example: you are trying to lose weight, and nothing is working. You have changed your diet, your exercise, mastered your sleep and worked with your doctor to make sure there isn’t a medical cause. And nothing is working. It could be a curse from someone who was jealous of you.