Goal Setting: How to overcome Obstacles

Goal Setting: How to overcome obstacles.

Today, we are going to look at how you can overcome obstacles that you may face when achieving your goals.

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You set yourself a goal, everything is going along smoothly; then out of left field…wham…you get hit by an obstacle that can stop you from achieving your goal. What can you do???

The key to overcoming obstacles is planning. When developing your goals, as part of the planning you should consider potential road blocks that may stop you from achieving your goals and potential ways around them.

You can use mind maps or other diagrams to show you the problem in detail, then look at potential solutions and how successful they might be. One solution, could be to have a mentor in the industry (or area that you want to achieve your goal in) who could be a sounding board for possible solutions.

Once you have this in place, you already have a plan of action for when things go slightly pear shaped. You will know it is not the end of you achieving your goal, but merely a slight detour along the way.

There is a lot of wisdom in the saying “if you fail to plan you plan to fail”

Some other views:

Last night your editor sat down and watched Cable TV, flicking through the channels he came across a show on UK TV, called “Bad Lads Army”. The show was focused on young men who had committed some minor crimes (eg shop lifting, robbery or fraud etc). The men were put into the British Army, to help make something out of their lives.

The show was an eye opener. The army seems to be the last place left where political correctness and leftist views are not considered!!! In the episode, the “lads” were ambushed during the middle of the night, blind folded and taken away for interrogation. For four hours, they had to stay in torture positions (eg hands up in the air or hands on their heads) in between the interrogation. The show ended with one of the lads having a gun put in his mouth, to try and get him to give an answer that wasn’t “I can’t answer that question”.

The show seemed to be quite effective on disciplining, and controlling the lads.

After flicking through all the other cable channels, and not finding to much good content, your editor has decided to call the cable company and reduce the number of channels that he has.


Andrew Collings