Change Your Perception, Change Your Outcome

Overcoming Perceived Obstacles

How many times in life does a challenge appear that we can’t summon the strength to take on, providing us with a sickening feeling? Instead of dealing with the task at hand, if we don’t develop a watchful eye, we can become a willing participant standing by on the sidelines unaware that the issue we tried to displace from our mind or presence has grown.

Overcoming a real or perceived obstacle first starts with our perception about it, what emotions does it stir up for one in need of an alternate and or improved consequence. Acknowledging the emotional ties is a first-step process in building a strategic plan to understand how to move beyond being stuck and replicating the same circumstance. The difference with the repetition if we so chose to repeat it, is that the players may change except for you, but the issue has continued to be unresolved. It will always find its way right back to you.

I believe that your NOW (New Opportunity of Wellness) is always there and reveals itself if or when we open our consciousness to learn the message contained within the experience provided on our daily journey. Making an empowering decision to face it, to remedy it. A courageous antidote for one’s health and well-being.

8-key links I have found to be advantageous in the process for assisting my clients with overcoming perceived obstacle includes addressing; emotional wellness, inner-peace, self-knowledge, active listening, being in the moment, self-compassion, self-openness, and knowing your intent. Below are a few questions that you might consider posing to yourself or sharing them with anyone else who may need to investigate how to devise in thought about how to overcome a real or perceived obstacle.

Questions to contemplate;

·        How well do I know myself?

·        Do I have self-compassion?

·        Do I provide myself with self-love and self-care?

·        Am I in this moment or dwelling in the past or forecasting my future?

·        What is my intent for what I am seeking, is it beneficial for myself and others or will it condemn me to repeat my past discomfortness?

·        Am I really listening to others or just pretending or am I distracted hoping they will just shut up?

What I have found to be true through deep research and learning of myself as well as many others, is that when we as individuals are not comfortable with ourselves, it may be impossible to be comfortable with others. If we cannot find compassion for what ills us from within there is very limited compassion and care, we can muster up for the masses. Having the lack of self-love and self-worth creates at some moment in time a sense of false adoration for those surrounding us making it near impossible to give something so true and a base desire such as love to anyone else. It is good to visit the past in order to learn but staying too long can trap your current environment diminishing the light shown upon any newly found paths, and when making choices remember nothing is about you, so taking the selfish route won’t lead to the right and best opportunities for you.

Empowering yourself takes effort and strength and taking on a challenge much of the time is never easy. Having a plan of action to use as a guide in a time of need can assist with growing your effectiveness. Changing your perspective by overcoming your vision of what you can accomplish in maximized when you move a real or perceived obstacle out of your way capturing the glimpses in the building of your well-being.