Tackle the Obstacle

So what type of person are you? 

Type A: The person who sees a blockage on a journey and decides there’s no point to move ahead, it would be better to return to the starting point where there was no hindrance.

Type B: The person who sees a blockage on a journey and immediately assumes it must be the end of the journey.

Type C: The person who sees a blockage on a journey, takes time out to figure out how to past the hindrance and really does go past it.

Michael Jordan once said, “Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.” I believe he must have said this from a place of experience. It almost always seems easy to return to the safe zone when we are confronted with an obstacle, it makes logical sense not to take the risk of finding out what could be if we found our way around that obstacle but the truth also is, most often than not, our treasure lies just past the obstacle we are confronted with. It may take time and a lot of energy to tackle the obstacles of life we encounter but they are present to help us get stay strong. We have a lot of potential within and too many times if left in our comfort zones, we would rather go with the flow than stretch ourselves to maximise the potentials we carry.

Impossible achievements do not just show up as part of our portfolio: we must start from somewhere we have never been. The secret is to take apart whatever obstacle we may be facing: Tackle first what you recognise as needful snd necessary, then move on to what you conceive as possible. Not too long in your process of tackling, you will find that you are doing the impossible: taking care of the obstacle you thought you could never overcome. Prove to yourself you have true strength just as Chris Bradford said,

“Anyone can give up; it is the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone would expect you to fall apart, now that is true strength.”