Category: Articles
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Obstacle Busting: Negative Self-Talk and Self Criticism
We all have an inner critic or gremlin; or whatever you like to call that nasty voice in your head that is negative and critical and mean and harsh and horrible. It’s a magnificent obstacle. Genuinely, it really is – because once you can get this one retrained, it will change your life. Just imagine…
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Obstacle Busting: Failure
People think failure is such a big, scary, horrible monster. It isn’t. It’s just a consequence of trying. We’re all going to fail at some point, if we haven’t already. So we might as well get comfortable with it. “I never lose. Either I win or I learn” – Nelson Mandela Going after success means…
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Obstacle Busting: Being Realistic
For those of you dropping realism bombs on your dreams before they get a chance to get off the ground… Ugh. Realistic. One of my least favourite words in the world. Because what is “realistic”? Is flight realistic? Electricity? The internet? Brain surgery? Space travel? A black man becoming president in apartheid South Africa? A…
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Obstacle Busting: Everything Taking Longer Than You Expect
This is a weird one…but one that I am often tripped up by. It’s not exactly an obstacle as such…it’s more a weight tied to your legs that slows you down and gives other obstacles a chance to catch up with you and attack. And many of us are prone to underestimating how long everything…
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Obstacle Busting: Biting Off More Than You Can Chew
If you’re anything like me, you tend to think you can take on way more than is physically possible for any human who wants to keep her sanity. It’s a new global disease – busyness is an epidemic; having it all is something we’re all trying to chase. Unfortunately having it all can mean relentless…
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Obstacle Busting: Don’t Know What to Do
This one feels like the Mount Everest of obstacles, because when you don’t know, you don’t know…but it’s actually one of the easiest obstacles to get over, because all you need to do is find out what to do. Simple, eh? It’s not always that easy, I know that, but thanks to the internet, it’s…
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Obstacle Busting: A Personal Earthquake or Seismic Change in Your Life
Sometimes life throws a grenade into your world, causing everything to shift and change. Something happens that stops you in your tracks, distracts you, takes up all your time and attention, and all the work you’ve done on your dreams sits in a corner gathering dust. It happens to us all. Life is unpredictable and…
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Obstacle Busting: Energy and Health Issues
There are times in most of our lives when our health and energy become a problem – to the point that it gets in the way of us having the most magnificent life possible. Those damn bodies of ours, right? Er, no. Listen, your body is the machine that gets it all done, so taking…
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Obstacle Busting: Getting on a Negative Train of Thought
Have you ever noticed the destinations of your trains of thought? Are they positive trains that make you feel good about yourself and your life? Or are they negative trains of thought that lead you directly to The Land of I Suck? For example, when you start on the train of thought: “This chapter isn’t…
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Obstacle Busting: Never Getting Started and Not Taking Action
Aah, the joys of a dream, what fun to imagine living on that beach, writing that book, creating that business, moving to the farm in the country. Such fun to imagine what we want in life…but then, turning the romantic ideal into reality…suddenly it feels like work. Or we don’t know what to do. Or…