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Obstacle Busting: Obstacles are good for you
They look like they’re there just to cause you trouble, but these problems, issues, roadblocks, obstacles all exist to HELP you. They come up so that they can be dealt with. Once they’re dealt with, you can move on with less baggage, less mess and more spring in your step. Big Dreams and amazing lives…
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Obstacle Busting: Beliefs that Undermine You
Everyone has some of these – beliefs that undermine what you want to do and cause you to hesitate, stop and turn back when you want to move forward. You need to excavate and mine for yours and get rid of them. For example “people like me don’t get to have or do X”. I…
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Obstacle Busting: No Money
This is another obstacle that is so common it’s almost a cliché. For many of my clients, it’s their go to obstacle – the first thing that gets in the way of anything and everything they want. So because they need the money and they don’t have it, that’s the end of their dreams. Only…
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Obstacle Busting: Worrying
“Confront obstacles as they appear, don’t waste energy fearing what you may meet in the future.” Isabelle Allende This quote leapt out at me the first time I read The Kingdom of the Golden Dragon. I am a recovering worry-holic. I know it’s a complete waste of time, as most of the things I worry…
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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…