Breaking Barriers

Breaking Barriers

Failures, what leads us to failures ?  Barriers.  Hurdles,  Obstructions.  Roadblocks.  Call it by any name, they are all barriers.  So, BARRIERS are the very culprits that cause us to hit a snag until we stumble, until we fail.  This does explain why most of us really detest barriers.  Where we can avoid it, we will do what it takes.  We would rather ditch it, thinking [wrongly] that that's the best way out of it.

Back in school, when we stereo-type a professor as a 'terror', we will likely avoid that professor.  At work, where we had a choice of reports to work on, we will pick up the least difficult ones.  In business, we will strategize for the easiest way out to boost our revenues.  In our relationships where we have our shortfalls and lapses, rather than make amends to repair things that get strained, the easiest way out is we will get a token gift, hoping that fixes the strain.

But rather than avoiding those barriers, won't we be better off if we were focused towards BREAKING BARRIERS instead of avoiding it ?  There's a quid pro quo though.  BREAKING BARRIERS will need a ton of effort + sacrifice and not to mention that persistent and unrelenting focus to really go for broke in BREAKING BARRIERS.

The question we're staring now is HOW do we end up BREAKING BARRIERS ?

• REMOVE your fear of failure.
• DO what you are afraid to do.
• Turn your doubt into MOTIVATION.
• PULSE CHECK as to where are you.
• Detach EMOTIONS in what you do.
• ASSESS the barrier holistically.
• NEVER stop.  NEVER give up.
• REWARD yourself when you succeed. 

The biggest question is how can you push yourself to be BREAKING BARRIERS ? Simple.  Think of the goals you have set to achieve.  Have your goals embedded.  And everyday, remind yourself that you're starting off the day to move inches towards your goal and you won't stop BREAKING BARRIERS ✅✅✅

Breaking Barriers

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🔅Happy Saturday.

Over my cup of coffee, let me start our weekend with this thread.  What breaks our back?  Barriers no less.  Barriers when we buckle down. Barriers when we founder.  Barriers when we disintegrate into pieces, left with nary an ounce of energy to resuscitate our flickering hopes to get back and come back.

Ironically and sadly, many of us are missing something a very basic element in life.  That is, barriers are there for us to break it up and not for barriers to break us down.  

The $64 dollar question now that stumps us is this:  Why do a lot of us [and I'm one of them] fail when we hit barriers?  

Probably, we keep complaining for a task we have at hand.

Probably, we are selective [a.k.a. CHOOSY] with a task we wanna do.

Probably, we were not realistic with the task, setting the bar way too high, with the goal itself ending up more as a barrier.

Probably, when you inject emotions in executing a task that requires objectivity devoid of the slightest tinge of emotions.

Oh, we'll be in deep 'sh___' if it's AOTA [all of the above]!  When we start complaining, when at work we become task-selective or if in our personal lives, we set to achieve something that is not realistic in the first place, sorry folks, one foot of yours is already in that hole.  Top it up with emotions getting into the mix, voila, that is a recipe for FAILURE!

Has anyone guaranteed that in life, you will be walking on long stretches of smooth concrete or asphalt?  No sir, we are into a rough-and-tumble game and the end game will only result either in aye nor nay, passed or failed, nothing neutral, nothing in between.  

So what does it take for us to trudge on? 

Firstly, wear your HARD HAT.  Meaning, you're not into games.

Secondly, you must have enough firepower under your hood.

Oh well, looking at the big picture, which Third World Country is near the top of the totem pole in terms of its billionaires population?  India, it's hands down!  Why can Indians end up so high when everyone else are from the First World?  

Let me offer my 2-cents.  It's the unparalleled drive of Indians to succeed.  Don't get me wrong.  We're not implying that my own countrymen don't have that drive to succeed.  Working with Indians right on Indian soil gave me that first hand opportunity to attest that the typical Indian's drive is at the full-throttle 5th gear whereas we're hovering between 2nd and 3rd gear.  Clearly on exception basis, the moguls are at the 5th gear but their numbers are minuscule, probably less than a fraction of 1%.  Indeed a pitiful number not to be proud of.

At work, it has to be collaboration no less.  As this adage has been proven correct over time, the sum of the whole is greater than its parts.  With teamwork and collaboration, your rickety boat can reach that far out in the high seas but what's key here is that each player knows his role and plays his role down to a 'T'.  And when they hit rock bottom, when the boat capsizes, the contingency plan kicks in.  Easier said than done but we gotta start somewhere, PLEASE.✋

Breaking Barriers

 

Breaking Barriers

Do we need to break barriers ?

Or do we want to live a life with no barriers ?

Or do we just turn blind when we come across barriers ?

First and foremost, if we want to live a life without barriers, that is not life per se. You may still be very much alive by then but in real terms, you are not. Why ? Because barriers are very much embedded in the weaving threads of our lives.

On the other hand, there is that second school of thought wherein they just wanna live life, just coasting along and when they hit barriers, they look the other way around or simply put, they just live life blindly. Obviously you can still survive with that kind of mindset but did you ever reckon how far can you go with that blinded life ? A life wherein you avoid barriers. A life wherein barriers are simply skirted around. A life wherein barriers are nothing but pebbles in the sand ?

Not to push you down deeper into that deep morass but if we got that ‘blind’ mindset, that is akin to playing not to lose. And in the end, you will lose, bet you. With that refusal to break or overcome barriers, either we don’t recognize that those barriers ever exist or at worse, we belittle those barriers as nothing but just fixtures to be stomped on and stamped over.

Whereas if we recognize barriers we hit along the way, that says tonnes and tonnes about you as a person, that speaks volumes of your intestinal fortitude to carry on with your life, aiming for more successes, regardless if those are tepid successes because those low-hanging fruits and brownie points in life are your pedestals as you keep aiming to land on the next lofty steps of that endless stairways that are so steep for the lesser mortals, the weaker souls.

IF ever you are that lesser mortal and weaker soul now, fret not. It’s not the end of the line as long as you can see the upside, that bright side of things. Remember, that ‘pot of gold’ is never handed on a silver platter. You got to sweat it out to get a hold of that ‘pot of gold’ even if that means you need to squeeze yourself high and dry till the last drop.

That old cliché “NO GUTS NO GLORY”, we should redefine it now by borrowing this from THE STRIVE’s “KNOW GUTS AND YOU’LL KNOW GLORY”