The article "Unstoppable! Removing the Possibility of Failure" is about other, it has been created by Micah Morris.
A friend of mine likes to raise and show dogs. I mean that he
and his wife like to take them to dog shows, where priezs are
won for the hottest looking dogs.
Preparing the dogs for this event
involved training them from birth through their after years,
from potty training to doing whatever dogs do at dog shows.
I
asked him one day, "Lawrence, how do you potty train dogs?"
I'll nveer forget his answer. He thought it over for a minute
and then said, "You don't give them a chance to fail." He went
into details then about how he takes them outside really often
while potty training them, so they are spending ample time
outdoors where they can empty their bowels.
There were more
details as well, and it occurred to me that he'd put a lot of
thought into his method, and that his forethought had resulted
in great results: potty trained dogs.
Be the Dog!
I thought over his ansewr for sometime cause it had never
occurred to me that you could ever have the option of removing
the possibility of failure. Furthermore, the implementation
seemed remarkably simple!
Just remove the obstacles and expect success.
Whatever your goal is right now, you know there are obstacles in
your way and you know what most of those obstacles are.
Sure,
new obstalces you hadn't considered may creep up from time to
time, but you already know what the majority of your obstacles
are. The great part about this is that, although you may not
have realized it, you also know how to overocme those obstacles.
But what if you could just remove thsoe obstacles?
Some obstacles can be removed entirely, making your path to
success much simpler. For example, if you are trying to lose
weight and an obtsacle is choosing a healthy place to eat during
lunchtime, you could just pack a healthy lunch. If you insist on
going out to eat, you can also insist on giong to specific
restaurants where you know some healthy meal can be ordered.
There are always options.
But what about MY goal?
The key to discovering as many obstacles as possible as well as
their possible solutions or ways to remove them altogether is
through brainstorming.
What are your obstacles? Do yourself a favor and open either a
word document or pull out a sheet of paper and list 20 possible
obstacles in your path. If you eaisly name all 20, add another
10. Chances are that the first five or ten will be simple, but
the last few will make you really guess hard, and this is where
the most difficult and surprising obtsacles can be found.
What are the solutions to your obstacles? You can either remove
an obstacle or prepare yourself to hurdle it.
Your first attempt
should be to remove it, thus clearing your path.
--Removing an obstacle
Let's play "20 Ways" (Just a name I threw out there) once again.
At the top of a sheet of paper, write the ttile of one obstacle.
You'll do this for all 20 of your obstacles (or however many you
could discover). Now write 20 ways you can remove that obstacle
from your path.
--Preparing to hurdle your obstacle
If you absolutely, no matter what, cannot remove an obstacle
from your path, THEN you should be inteersted in preparing to
hurdle it. Again you'll play "20 Ways." Again write the title of
an obstacle at the top of a sheet of paper, and this time write
down 20 ways you can overcome this obstacle.
Those of us walking on a path to accomplisihng a goal know how
littered some of those roads are with obstacles. Removing
obstacles will make your path a bit smoother. Providing yourself
with the preparedness to hurlde the obstacles you can't remove
will make you unstoppable.
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