Decide that you will not give up and if something has to give, it will have to be obstacles and not you.

Standing up to your obstacles imparts you with a sense of accomplishment and reinforces sense of your inner power. By developing a habit of facing resistance, you instill into your psyche a strong message of endurance and success. This strengthens faith and belief in yourself. Which helps remind you of responsibility to yourself.

Sometimes you may have to resort to some other measures to overcome obstacles. If you can't get through problem, try going around it, and if you can't go around it, try getting under it, and if you can't get under it, try going over it, and if you can't go over it, just dive straight into it.

Reflection:

Ask yourself if obstacle can be ignored. Your fixation of problem only renders it more cumbersome. If possible, stop paying attention to it.

Use humour or your wits to get around obstacle. This helps to diffuse tension around issue.

Take bull by horn and confront obstacle. Doing this might be challenging at first, particularly if you are not used to confrontation. Yet more you do it, easier it will become.

Action Point:

1.See obstacles as propeller to move you forward and use them wisely.

2. Repeat loudly as often as necessary to yourself : "I can overcome this, and I will".

3. Confront obstacles as habits of success and not of failure.

4. Develop ability to overcome, bypass, or eliminate obstacles.

5. When difficult circumstances arise, have confidence to take action. Don't allow other people to put obstacles in your path. Learn to overcome obstacles by standing up to them without complaining. Have faith and strength to change your thoughts and beliefs that you can succeed and you will.

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*(Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary, 1977, G. & C. Merriam Co.)

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Julie Cohen, PCC, is a Career and Personal Coach. She supports her clients in achieving greater career satisfaction. She can be reached at http://www.juliecohencoaching.com