What hurdles do you face?
I have found it very helpful to categorize all hurdles into 4 areas.
Perhaps they can never be totally eliminated from the ‘crash course’ of your life. What can certainly be done is to control them sufficiently so that you
- Identify them in good time,
- Make adjustments necessary to deal with them, and when the time comes,
- Deal with them as efficiently and painlessly as possible.
[My 3 Part Formula just showed up again, did you notice that? Ref: The Missing Principles Handbook]
The 4 Hurdles Are…
- Lack of Resources
- Procrastination
- Suppression
- Time Constraints
Let’s explore…
Hurdle 1: Lack of Resources
Resources include knowledge, money, power, people and tools. (that’s not an exhaustive list).
No matter how hard you try, if resource are limited, the task at hand can cause much frustration.
If the mind is willing but the body unable, progress will be slow and painful right?
Ever feel you’re not getting very far despite your high commitment and effort?
It very often will be due to a lack of resources.
“Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place.”
- Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass
Ouch!
Hurdle 1 is having a lack of resources to do what you want to do.
Hurdle 2: Procrastination
Procrastination is a type of self-suppression, a negative self conditioning, a choice to accept less than you are capable of and deserve.
- Lazy habits
- Fear of making moves
- Not feeling the time is right
- Not feeling that you are ready
- Being distracted
- Chasing your tail and putting out fires
- Deciding that you can’t act on something until you have the resources to do so
“No man is free who is not master of himself” – Epictetus
The Procrastinator
I’d hesitate to make a list
Of all the countless opportunities I’ve missed.
Bonanzas that were in my grip
I watched them through my fingers slip.
The windfalls that I should have bought,
Were lost because I over thought;
I thought of this, I thought of that
I could have sworn I smelt a rat;
And while I thought things over twice
Another grabbed them at the price.
It seems I always hesitate,
And make my mind up too late;
A very cautious man am I
And that is why I never buy.
When others culled those sprawling farms
And welcome contracts with open arms
A corner here, ten acres there,
Compounding values year by year,
I chose to think and while I thought
They bought the deals I could have got!
The golden chances I had then
Are lost and will not come again!
Today I cannot be enticed
For everything’s so overpriced!
The opportunities of yesteryear are dead
The market’s soft and so’s my head!
At times a teardrop drowns my eye
For opportunities I had but did not buy;
And now life’s saddest words I pen……
‘IF ONLY I’D INVESTED THEN!’
“…what good is knowledge if we do not use it to live more fully?”
- Bob Anderson
Hurdle 2 is procrastination: the inability you have to motivate yourself into action.
Hurdle 3: Suppression
Suppression will probably include everything else besides procrastination and lack of resources that you find holding you back from doing what you want.
- Family ‘duties’ or conflict
- Negative or overly demanding partner
- Religious suppression
- Government taxes
- Political regulation
- Office politics
“Politics: Poly meaning many, and tics meaning blood sucking parasites.”
You can clearly see that if there is high suppression, then even if procrastination or lack of resource is low, meaning that you have the resources you need and the willing energy to do the thing, you will still fail or progress very slowly, because of other people holding you back.
In today’s current political climate, procrastination, not suppression, is the biggest cause of failure, so always take 100% responsibility. If you make excuses about suppression holding you back, you’re probably simply procrastinating.
The scales may tip much further to political suppression over the next decade but hopefully that will be prevented by the rising Freedom paradigm.
I for one do not want to see my loved ones die early in a political/religious regime. (See “I Am Earth’s Only Survivor”)
Hurdle 3 is the suppression against your freedom of choice and action.
Hurdle 4: Time – the final frontier
THE FINAL HURDLE TO ENDURING TOTAL SUCCESS IS TIME.
“I’m late, I’m late, for a very important date. No time to say Hello, Goodbye. I’m late I’m late I’m late”
- The Rabbit, Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carol.
Time is the ultimate constraint of what we can accomplish.
We have 24 hours per day, generally we should have 8 hours sleep which leaves just 16 hours to go, there is lots to be done, and current average life expectancy in the West is only 75 years.
Summary
The 4 Hurdles Are…
- Lack of Resources (money, skill, connections, tools, etc)
- Procrastination (not applying 100% responsibility for your progress)
- Suppression (the negative influence of our political mystical environment)
- Time Constraints (the practical limitations of our energy and capacity given the finiteness of time)
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