Why People Don’t Follow through on their Goals, and How to Kick your Butt into Gear EP168

80% of you will not follow through on your 2020 goals! FACTS!!!

This hard stat comes from US News and World Report.

The good news is 20% of you WILL achieve your 2020 goals, and I would like to help as many of you as possible be on this side of the equation.

From the well of over 1500 people I have coached and mentored, every single one of them has failed at achieving goals multiple times in their lives, ME INCLUDED. The fail-point actually occurs right from start. We unknowingly, subconsciously set ourselves up, by getting caught up in the yumminess of fantasy thinking.

It all usually starts around the end of November…mass media; social media, people surrounding us start talking about their plans for the New Year or “next year.” Then we start slowly placing our New Year plans, goals, and visions into our mental magical fantasy filing cabinet.

It goes something like this:

You are searching for your seventeenth pair of black yoga pants, (but they are your favorites when you feel bloated), and your closet is “sooooo unorganized” it takes you ten minutes to find them. You proclaim to yourself, I’m going to make a point of being more organized in the New Year and Marie Kondo my closet. Instant dopamine (the feel good brain chemical) is released and you feel a wave of relief, empowerment, and satisfaction that just solved the problem.

Then while waiting for yoga class to start you start scrolling Instagram, and you see Polly the Princess social media influencer telling you she makes six-figures blogging…now your brain says, ”I’m going to start a YouTube channel in the New Year, if she can do it I can too.” Once again instant dopamine is released and you walk into your class feeling excited, empowered, and full of hope.

These fantasy index cards keep stacking up over the days leading to the New Year, and all of a sudden it’s January First. The emotional pattern is typically excitement, motivated, determined to overwhelmed, discouraged, frustrated, disappointment, and then shame.

If this at all resonates with you, listen to this episode and learn how to regroup and regain traction on your real goals.

Welcome to ProjectME the Podcast with your host Tiffany Carter, who takes the mystery out of making BIG money. A former NBC and CBS TV journalist, turned multi-millionaire entrepreneur, teaching you all things wealth, health, worth, and business. You can follow Tiffany on Instagram @projectme_with_tiffany on Facebook @projectmewithtiffany and watch her TV episodes on ProjectME TV with Tiffany Carter on YouTube.

Recent Episodes

Ep 795 The Adrenaline Trap: Why you Keep Overthinking, Overgiving, and are Operating on Fumes w/ Psychologist Dr. David Bonnano

If you constantly feel mentally overloaded, emotionally exhausted, stuck in cycles of procrastination or self-sabotage, or like your brain will not shut off no matter how much mindset work, healing work, therapy, or personal development you’ve done… this episode is going to connect a lot of dots.

In this powerful conversation, Tiffany sits down with clinical psychologist and PTSD expert Dr. David Bonanno to unpack the hidden neurological role adrenaline plays in chronic stress, burnout, impulsive decisions, overwhelm, emotional reactivity, procrastination, inconsistency, and high-functioning anxiety.

This episode explores why so many entrepreneurs, creators, high achievers, and ambitious people unknowingly operate in chronic compounded stress states — and how that impacts your nervous system, decision-making, habits, emotional regulation, productivity, business growth, relationships, and overall well-being.

This conversation is deeply validating, eye-opening, and packed with practical insight around nervous system regulation, emotional resilience, trauma responses, stress management, mental overload, burnout recovery, entrepreneur mental health, emotional decision-making, and sustainable success.

LISTEN NOW »

Ep 794 Your Business Isn’t Broken > You’re Just Operating on an Outdated System

Your business isn’t broken. But your current operating system might be outdated for where you’re trying to go.

In this powerful business growth, marketing strategy, personal branding, and entrepreneur mindset episode, Tiffany Carter breaks down why high-achieving entrepreneurs, coaches, online business owners, and content creators end up stagnating even when they’re smart, talented, experienced, and already making money.

If your business growth has slowed down… If your content stopped converting the way it used to… If your audience stopped responding like they once did… If you feel stuck between your current level and your next level……this episode is going to hit hard.

Tiffany Carter shares the hidden patterns keeping entrepreneurs capped in 2026, including outdated marketing strategies, AI codependency, emotionally disconnected content, inconsistent visibility, fear-based business contraction, overthinking, playing small, and trying to scale a modern business using outdated systems and habits.

LISTEN NOW »

Ep 793 Why Everything Starts Feeling Hard & Heavy: The Play Solution w/ Co-Founder of Refinery29 & Author Piera Gelardi

Feeling exhausted, mentally blocked, emotionally disconnected, uninspired, or burned out from constantly being “on”?

In this deeply powerful episode, Tiffany sits down with Piera Gelardi, co-founder of Refinery29, author of The Playful Way, and creator of the NoomaLooma app, to explore why so many ambitious adults lose touch with play, creativity, joy, imagination, and emotional freedom — and how that disconnect impacts everything from mental health and nervous system regulation to abundance, relationships, creativity, business success, and overall fulfillment.

This conversation dives into the psychology of burnout, high-functioning anxiety, over-productivity, entrepreneurship pressure, and the emotional cost of constantly operating in survival mode.

If you’ve been searching for how to feel inspired again, how to reconnect with yourself, how to stop feeling emotionally numb, how to get out of burnout, or why success still feels heavy even after accomplishing so much… this episode is going to hit deeply.

LISTEN NOW »