Outside forces such as ideas that come from other people, the world and advertising are always trying to knock you off balance. They claim that you do not have enough of something or that you need to push yourself more in a certain area. Sometimes that is true but sometimes it is not true at all. You have to allow yourself to have the decision of what you really want and never allow yourself to be swayed more towards a certain area while taking energy from another area. Know what you want and when.
There can also be a conflict of intention between your lower and higher self. Sometimes you may think you want something but it is just an idea given by the world to make you think it is what you should want or that you should want it at this time. But your higher self desires something else or desires it to be at another time. Therefore you consciously move in one direction and yet also subconsciously moving in another. You wonder why it isn't working out when it's actually the real you stopping yourself.