Why You Should Welcome Obstacles In Your Journey To Success

Jari Roomer
Peak Productivity

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One of the most common reasons why people fail to achieve their goals is that they tend to get discouraged by obstacles and challenges.

They have big dreams, start ambitious projects, but give up as soon as obstacles derail their progress. They touched the potential of an extraordinary life but, unfortunately, slipped back into mediocrity.

Obstacles Are Treasures Hidden In Plain Sight

Inherent to chasing an ambitious goal is that you will fail at least once and encounter many obstacles along the way. This is part of pursuing something ambitious. It’s part of the process.

As Winston Churchill said, “Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”

Remember, if it were easy, it wouldn’t be ambitious. So you should expect to fail. You should expect to encounter resistance.

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Take Thomas Edison as an example. It took him more than a thousand unsuccessful attempts before inventing the light-bulb.

You can call this one hell of an obstacle to overcome. But he didn’t give up. He…

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Jari Roomer
Peak Productivity

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