Don’t Avoid Obstacles — Overcome Them
Sometimes you have to let yourself
celebrate your wins. You won’t always have good news and you need to learn how
to embrace and enjoy these moments. You need to let yourself have some fun once
in a while, or else you will burn out and lose all motivation.
Sometimes you have to switch your
routines, even when they’re working for you. You might be going too easy on
yourself. You have to reassess your challenges and make sure you’re
continuously challenging yourself and pushing your boundaries. You have to make
sure you’re not purposefully blinding yourself and impeding progress.
On the flip side, you might be
going too hard on yourself. You might be pushing yourself to the brink of
exhaustion. You might be miserable because you’re tyrannizing yourself over
your schedule. You might need adjust if everyday feels like torture. You should
be struggling, but not in constant pain.
I told myself that I would write
and read every day. I often find myself making excuses.
“Sometimes it’s not
possible.” I’d say.
Sometimes I’d lie to myself,
procrastinate and never end up accomplishing my daily goals. Sometimes I won’t
have an idea to write about and will end up pushing it until I have to publish
something I am not proud of.
Creativity does not come by force.
You can train yourself to produce and merge creative ideas constantly, but it
cannot be coerced. The only thing you can do to influence creativity is to gain
more experiences, observe the world around you and take in a variety of ideas.
Read more books. Watch more movies.
Take a walk. Talk with people.
Sometimes, instead of trying to
creating, you have to experience more. You need to put more ideas into your
head.
You get out what you put in. These
days, I haven’t been doing my due diligence in reading the books that have
stacked up on my desk. I need to take more time to read. I need to take more
time to digest the ideas and see what kind of interesting insights I can get
out of them.
I feel like sometimes I should just
spend a whole week focusing on the books, take some notes and come back with my
observations. It is going to be harder to keep up a writing schedule, since I
will no longer have the entire day to myself.
When problems arise and hinder my
progress, I often find myself exactly where I started. I have no solution to
deal with all the problems and happenings that occur in life. Every obstacle
seems to affect me in a different way and threatens to crush my long-term
goals. How do I deal with the numerous obstacles that will inevitably appear in
my life?
The Obstacle Is
The Way
But one thing that I have realized
recently is the fact that the obstacle is the way. The quote is taken from Ryan
Holiday’s book — The Obstacle Is
The Way — which draws wisdom from stoicism, the philosophy of
enduring pain or adversity with
perseverance and resilience.
When you’re paving your way through
life, you will be met with obstacles that block you from moving forward. We
spend a lot of time in our lives because we believe that these obstacles should
be avoided or worse, cause us to backtrack and take another direction.
When we face big problems in life,
we often believe they are horrible and treat them as unfortunate events. But
what if you were meant to overcome these obstacles? What if they are there for
you to hurdle over?
What would happen if you learned
how to overcome all obstacles? You would be unstoppable. Nothing would stop
your way because you understand that these obstacles are not impediments. They
are not roadblocks that are meant to be avoided — they are meant to be taken head on.
“The impediment to action advances action. What stands
in the way becomes the way.”
— Marcus Aurelius
Life will throw things at you that
will threaten to break you. It will take away the things and people you love.
You will face misfortune, pain and suffering. You have no control or influence
over what life can bring to the table.
The only thing you can control is
your attitude and your behaviors.
If you control your attitude and
your behaviors, you will overcome any obstacle in life. You will not be
influenced by the troubles of life. You will treat every obstacle as something
to be overcome. You will love the struggle, because you know you will learn and
receive something valuable from the experience.
Even though I am starting a new
chapter in my life, I will keep on chasing my dream to become a writer. I will
keep writing, reading and learning everyday.
Sometimes I will fail. Sometimes I
will win.
But one thing that will never
change is my attitude. I will meet my failures with compassion and meet my wins
with pride.
Every obstacle that appears in
front of me will not be sidestepped. They will be overcome and destroyed.
How do you respond to the
roadblocks in your path? Do you slink your head in defeat and walk back the way
you came, or do you analyze the situation and plan out how to get around and
solve the problem?
“There is always a countermove, always an escape or way
through. No one said it would be easy and of course the stakes are high, but
the path is there for those ready to take it.”
— Ryan Holiday
Holiday tells us that obstacles
don’t inhibit success, they create success and that readers should see “through the negative, past its underside, and into its corollary: the
positive.”
The decisions you make when faced
with difficult obstacles will define you. So come face to face with each
obstacle that you come across and do your best to overcome every single one of
them.
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