365 Days With Self-Discipline: 365 Life-Altering Thoughts on Self-Control, Mental Resilience, and Success


WEEK 10 Day 64: On Seeing Obstacles as Hurdles



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365 Days With Self-Discipline 365 Life-Altering Thoughts on Self-Control, Mental Resilience, and Success by Martin Meadows (z-lib.org).epub

WEEK 10

Day 64: On Seeing Obstacles as Hurdles

If  we  choose  to  see  the  obstacles  in  our  path  as  barriers,  we  stop

trying. If we choose to see the obstacles as hurdles, we can leap over them.

Successful  people  don’t  have  fewer  problems.  They  have  determined  that

nothing will stop them from going forward.

—Ben Carson

 

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One might argue that it’s mere semantics — barriers or hurdles; both

make  it  difficult  to  reach  success.  However,  thinking  of  a  problem  as  a



hurdle  means  approaching  it  as  something  that  you  can  possibly  walk

around  or  leap  over,  but  a  barrier  sounds  like  something  that  is

impermeable and a fixed limitation.

Nobody likes to face obstacles, but it’s thanks to the obstacles you face

today that you gain the ability to overcome other hardships in the future —

ones that would possibly crush you if it weren’t for the experience you’re

having today.

Problem-solving skills are exactly that — skills. The more often you

encounter problems and resolve them, the better you’ll get at dealing with

them.


For  this  reason,  as  a  great  exercise  for  building  self-discipline  and

mental  resilience,  I  strongly  suggest  exposing  yourself  to  difficult  tasks.

Embrace  problems  in  your  life  and  look  at  dealing  with  difficulties  as

training yourself to see problems as hurdles instead of barriers.

Exert willpower to deal with the hard problems, instead of looking for

the  easiest  way  out.  Consider  several  ways  to  tackle  the  issue  and  try  to

visualize  how  each  solution  can  help  you  leap  over  the  hurdle.  You  don’t

necessarily  have  to  throw  problems  at  yourself  from  every  direction;  you

can  also  practice  by  helping  your  friends  solve  their  problems  or  by

imagining  you’re  facing  the  problems  you’re  reading  about  in  a  book  or

seeing in a TV show.



Just for practice, imagine that you were about to launch your business

when  a  key  investor  backed  out,  leaving  you  $20,000  short  of  the  budget

necessary to produce the first line of your product. To make matters worse,

you’ve  already  accepted  payments  from  your  first  clients  and  need  to

deliver within two months. Most people would consider it an impermeable

barrier.  Game  over,  say  goodbye  to  your  dreams.  You,  as  a  mentally

resilient and self-disciplined person will look at it as a hurdle. What can you

do to leap over it and keep going, despite such a difficulty being thrown in

your way?




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