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The Obstacle Is The Way.
Think about it.
If you’re anything like me, you’ve probably heard these words multiple times but never taken the time to actually try and comprehend what they mean.
Those words are the key to your dreams.
I’m not sitting here telling you one of the many ‘keys to success’ that all of the gurus preach.
‘Work-Life balance’ this, ‘Cold Shower’ that,
It’s all bullshit.
All of your goals and dreams stem from this one quote:
The Obstacle Is The Way
It is literally that simple.
If you still haven’t gotten it, this is what I mean:
Have you ever intended to do something like start a business, create your personal brand, or even start studying for an exam?
It’s hard, right?
That’s because those things are exactly what you need to do to get to your goals.
Build incredible amounts of wealth, get a tonne of people following you for you, or even get the best results in your exam so that you get into your dream college.
Whatever it is, if you don’t go and do what’s needed to get there, how are you ever going to succeed?
I like to use this quote a lot, but it summarises everything.
“The more important a call to action is to our soul's evolution, the more Resistance we will feel about answering it.” - Steven Pressfield
In other words, we’ll feel the most reluctance and procrastination around doing whatever’s needed for us to accomplish our dreams.
It’s easy for you to sit there and watch YouTube videos on how to be productive and successful all day.
BUT, It’s not so easy to sit there and actually BE productive all day.
And that is because THE OBSTACLE IS THE WAY.
Whatever it is that you NEED to do will be the hardest thing for you to actually go and do.
Stop mentally masturbating on YouTube, thinking you’re being productive, when in truth you’re simply just wasting days of your life away for zero outcome.
No matter how much information you learn about how to be productive or create a product, nothing in your life is going to change until you actually DO something.
Most people get stuck in this hole their whole life, saying that they’re going to do something, thinking they have all the time in the world, and next thing they know, they turn 50, have three kids and have no idea where the time went.
Don’t be this person naive enough to say they’re ‘going to get rich’ or whatever you say you want to accomplish, but never actually DO anything about it.
You’re going to pay a price for everything you do and everything you don’t do.
Whatever the hardest thing for you to do at this current moment is, it is more than likely what you NEED to do.
You know what you need to do; you're just too comfortable.
And if you’re still not sure, take a moment to think to yourself what it is that you’ve been procrastinating doing for the last few weeks, months or even years.
THAT is the thing you need to do
THAT is the Obstacle, and doing THAT thing is the way.
People will spend YEARS avoiding the problem that will actually move them forward because they don’t want to go through the discomfort of doing it and try to find a workaround.
It doesn’t work.
It’s like spending an hour doing the title of your revision notes, making them look nice and colourful, as opposed to actually writing the revision notes.
You feel productive, but you’re not actually getting anywhere.
If you want to make this year mediocre,
Be someone who says they’re going to do something and then doesn’t do it.
You know what you need to do.
Just do it.
Otherwise, no matter what you say you’re going to do,
Nothing is ever going to change.
Oli.
“The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.” - Marcus Aurelius
If you want to learn more, you can do so with Ryan Holiday’s book, ‘The Obstacle Is The Way’ which I’ve linked below: