What prevents you from reaching your goals?

I have some goals about my art and my writing. Last year I had an art exhibition at a cafe, it went pretty well and I sold more paintings than I expected. My next goal is to create a bigger exhibtion at another place. I guess that it is the fear of failure that prevents me from making that exhibition. I have to pay in order to rent the rooms at the art museum, it is pretty expensive and I am afraid that I won't sell enough paintings to cover the rent. In a way I just want to try it, but I am afraid that my exhibition won't be successful. I also have some goals about my writing and I would like to finish my collection og poems and my collection of short stories. What prevents me from reaching that goal? I think that I often try to convince myself that I have to do a lot of other things before I work on my poems and my stories. I keep procrestinating. I need to do the dishes, I need to clean the rabbit cages, I need to study for my exam, I need to write that letter etc. Somehow I just don't get around to writing my stories, and that is one of the things that I want to change.

hi untacat, If there is something that might stop me from reaching my goals, it is becoming selfless. There were some instances that I become selfless, I give for the good of others. However, I used to do my best to reach my goals, despite of this personality. I believe that there is nothing wrong from being selfless, but there are also times that being too selfless is not good enough. Therefore, I should be balance of it.. Be selfless if it is needed but don't make myself get far away from my ambition due of being selfless.