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Turning Obstacles Into Challenges
By Sabra Jenny

Moving on in our lives can be a great challenge. Making changes entails interior work and willingness to take right action. Negative feelings or circumstances can be viewed as obstacles to our progress. When this happens, the natural inclination is to stop, and go no further. Yet obstacles often conceal hidden opportunities for growth and development. Sometimes obstacles are merely the product of circumstance, and are there simply to provide exercise in right use of will. Whatever their purpose, obstacles actually represent a challenge to dig deeper, try harder, and think more creatively. This often produces surprising results that take us far further than we imagine ourselves capable of going.

We often feel overwhelmed at the prospect of making changes, and get stuck in the decision-making or planning stages, mid-way point or even right at the finish line. Old fears and programs can play endlessly in our heads, listing all the reasons why it’s pointless to try to move forward. When we’re really feeling creative, we can drag up old memories of past attempts to make changes, and the interesting results of our efforts that we deem failures. Nothing could be further from the truth, yet in an effort to support our decision to do nothing rather than make a change, we view our past unsuccessful efforts as negative experiences, and allow that to weigh our judgment about the future.

The courage of your convictions and persistence in your efforts can take you far. When you feel something is right for you, and that it will bring you positive results, it is worth whatever hard work it takes to get there. Many famous people achieved their greatest accomplishments by trying repeatedly to do so. Edison executed over 14,000 experiments to invent the light bulb. When asked by a reporter after the first 2,000 tries how he felt about failing 2,000 times, he responded that he hadn’t failed, he had found 2,000 way not to invent the process he believed in. He persisted, kept a positive attitude, and forever revolutionized the way we live.

Know what you want. Believe it is possible. Begin a plan, take some steps -- even baby ones -- forward, and correct your path as necessary to continue on towards your goal. View obstacles as opportunities for creative thinking and growth. Be flexible in your thinking and dreaming. Release your attachment to a specific outcome, and open yourself to whatever the universe has in store for you. Be willing to go back to the drawing board when things don’t go as planned, and redesign your future. Keep going. If you do nothing, nothing changes. When you begin to move forward, new opportunities will cross your path.

I do readings that help people move on with their lives.

-- Reprinted from Spirit Voice Newsletter, Volume 7, Issue 4,
July/August 2004

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