It’s just an obstacle

# Chapter 18

We are all facing obstacles. Of some type and some variety but we all have them and they take up a surprising amount of our focus and mental bandwidth each day. I discovered this as my knee repair and surgery loomed and it was more and more robbing all my focus away from other tasks that needed to be completed and accomplished. But this is just an obstacle. It is not a task to be completed nor is it producing anything awesome or beautiful or creative, its just there like an elephant in the room, in the way, bothersome, intrusive, something to be suffered through, something to be managed, something to be survived, a pain, or an injury, or a chronic problem, the kids, heck even your husband! An obstacle! Not a goal, not a target, not even a challenge, just an obstacle!

These obstacles are the deep space voids of emotional pitfalls, the black holes where focus goes to never return, what will keep you awake at night because its an obstacle dang it! It is in your way, it is in your path, it will hinder you delay you block you prevent you and impede you from getting to where you need to be to accomplish what you need to complete. And that makes it evil in the productivity realm of reality, it has to be overcome and removed, contained, boxed up, put away and leashed, at least temporarily so that you can be what you need to be for your customers and your family and yourself. Its just an obstacle, and you can overcome it. In fact you will find it darn satisfying to do so.