The Law of the Obstacle | How to overcome hardship and leverage adversity

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Life is hard sometimes. We face obstacles in our path that stop our progress, hold us back, even harm us sometimes. What if those obstacles were NOT the enemy that we thought they were? What if overcoming those hardships was actually the very point of it all?

“The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.” - Marcus Aurelius

We need to view hardship as an opportunity.

“Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.” – Napoleon Hill

Sometimes, we know the reason for our adversity.

The question of WHY is always running through our heads and hearts when things get hard.

It’s okay to look for that. Sometimes, the answer is that we are foolish. Our own stupid choices may have caused our hardship. Sometimes, the hardship may be the result of injustice, or someone else’s bad decisions. The answer to WHY can be helpful sometimes for us to avoiding the same hardship in the future.



For example, if I eat Taco Bell at 9PM and get the runs at midnight, i can curse the adversity of the runs, or I can learn from the situation.

Sometimes we do not know the reason for our adversity.

Maybe our perspective is jaded. Maybe it’s not that bad things are handed to us to hurt us. Maybe the truth of life is that SOME challenges come our way so that we can be strengthened as we overcome them?

The right question about hardship is, how can this strengthen me?

We must learn to view hardship as an opportunity for growth.

“Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.” – William Arthur Ward

The secret to overcoming adversity is in not avoiding the hardship, but in facing it.

“Hard times don’t create heroes. It is during the hard times when the “hero” within us is revealed.” – Bob Riley

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