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Every day we fight fatigue, interruptions, resistance,
competition, and our own ineptness. If you think I’m joking, I’m not.
Sometimes we hit a stone wall so strong and so deep that
we can’t get past it. We bang our heads on it for awhile and then give up.
Maybe we try again tomorrow. If we keep batting our heads or our fists against an
obstacle, maybe it will go away. Usually it doesn’t. If you’ve reached this
point in your life, don’t give up just yet. There may be “light at the end of
the tunnel.”
What are the possibilities?
- You could climb
over the wall. Earthly walls, like
most obstacles are rarely sky high. Most of them are created in our own
minds or by outside forces we feel we have no control over.
- You could go
around the wall. It may cost you extra time, and perhaps more education,
but your efforts will pay off if it helps you reach your goal.
- Knowing that the
wall represents the circumstances of your life that prevent you from being
productive means you must find a way to remove it, go around it, or look
at it as another challenge that must be overcome.
The last thing you want to do is allow the wall to stop
you from doing what you want to do in your heart of hearts.
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I’m not usually a gambler, but there was one time in my
life when I sat in Reno, Nevada, and poured nickels down the throat of a slot
machine. I was determined I was going to win. I was afraid if I left someone
else would take over my machine and reap what I’d delivered.
I went through $35 that evening with nothing to show for
it.
Some machines are rigged to pay up, and some are not. My inability to move,
to get past that wall froze (brain freeze) my common sense. A move to another machine, a
change in thinking or attitude could have helped me get past this slump.
I’m not telling this story to encourage others to gamble.
I’m just saying that sometimes in life we hit obstacles. Instead of finding
ways around them by weighing our options, and asking ourselves: “what’s the
worst that can happen?” We let fear freeze us into a position of banging our
heads against problems rather than trying to solve them.
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If there’s a nagging problem or wall in your life, find
another way around it or you’ll end up sitting in the same place stalled; frozen
by inaction in much the same way as I was frozen into a losing position in Reno.
Sometimes we just have to get off our “duffs” and move! We have to climb out of
a rut, jump over a hurdle and move into the light of common sense and self-discovery.
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Such good advice as ever, Carol! Sometimes those 'walls' can even bring out our creativity in finding a way around or past them.
ReplyDeleteIt just happens that your slot machine experience chimes with what I was reading this afternoon while some images were uploading. It's a wonderful book about the 'power of introverts' (by Susan Cain) and she was describing how we are all to some extent 'reward-sensitive' and that is a great motivator.
But sometimes our 'reward-sensitivity' gets stuck on overdrive and that can be dangerous, as in her story of a man who lost $700,000 on the stock market, 70% of his family's retirement nest egg, in much the same way as you lost $35!
Ouch! So good to hear from you girl friend! You always have words of wisdom, so when you like what I said that makes my day!
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