THE OBSTACLE BECOMES THE WAY

From what I understand, the concept of, “the obstacle becomes the way,” originated from the stoics.  The idea is very straightforward.  When going after an objective, and something gets in your way, that new obstacle becomes the objective until it is overcome, and the original course can continue.

Speaking from experience, I have hit roadblocks and took it as a sign that it must not have meant to be.  I would stop and admit defeat.  I don’t think it even mattered how important my objective was to me.  Instead of the obstacle becoming my way it was the obstacle became my defeat.  How many times have we let an obstacle, that we could have overcome, stop us from achieving our goals?

With this new philosophical insight, I will not let obstacles get in the way of achieving my goals and dreams.  I believe, if we inspect the lives of the successful, we will see that they all hit roadblocks in their pursuit of their dreams.  Instead of quitting they found a way to overcome the obstacle and achieved their success.  May we all embrace the stoic philosophy of making the obstacle our way and achieve our dreams!