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.✋