Obstacles Arise When You Take Your Eyes Off Your Goal

Obstacles are all around, if you bother to look. You, we, can see them everywhere. They can be such an hindrance to movement and fulfillment. To growth and development.

They can come in all shapes and sizes.

• challenges that we can bat away right through to things that give us headaches and make us sweat
• in the form of a barrier or hindrance to our future movement or achievement
• hurdles that we can jump over, try to run around, but cannot manage to ignore

Yet are they there, in front of you, for a reason? To test you - but I don't want to be tested you say. To bring out the best in you - but I'm doing OK anyway you say, or are you?

When we take part in a fitness regime, why do we do that? To exercise and keep healthy.

And how do we do that?

We use our bodies, we exercise our bodies, we flex our bodies, we stretch ourselves. We use our muscles and relax, then use them again. Is it not the same with our minds and brains?

To negotiate an obstacle we have to think and sometimes be creative. We have to plan, set goals and put the effort in. We have to do something. The obstacle may move of its own accord, but can we rely upon that?

But when we flex our minds and brains, think of the powers and experience, the wisdom and knowledge, that we have at our fingertips. Will this not enable us to overcome most obstructions?

In the exercising of our problem solving abilities we can find out more about ourselves. We can discover hidden talents and abilities and skills.

We can find inner and as yet untapped strength and resolve. Does all this not make the obstacle worthwhile?

But further to that we can learn from others and the experiences of others. And we can adapt and change ourselves, and within ourselves, to meet the new challenges as they occur.

We can benefit from past experience of what worked, but also of what did not work. And put this knowledge and experience to good effect. We can take this knowledge and wisdom forward with us in life.

And come out the other side a better and more rounded individual. Now that is one of the challenges of life that we should meet head on.

And be able to look on in wonder and be inspired by what we can do and how life can lead us to new achievements and accomplishments.