Problems and obstacles…

…Just life.

Marcus Aurelius wrote somewhere around 170 AD/CE, outlined by Ryan Holiday in his book, The Obstacle is the Way, that,

“Our actions may be impeded… but there can be no impeding our intentions or dispositions, because we can accommodate and adapt. The mind adapts and converts to its own purposes the obstacle to our acting.”

Aurelius finished with,

“The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.“

Powerful advice when confronted by seemingly insurmountable obstacles/problems, but what if we have this life/business thing all wrong, ie something for us to return to once our obstacles/problems have all been dealt with?

Maybe, as Marcus Aurelius alluded to in his writings, that problems and obstacles are not ‘in the way’ but ‘on the way’ to where we want to go in this life/business thing we’ve got going on.

In mini-golf, the obstacles/problems we encounter are not ‘in the way’, they’re the point of the entire game.

Maybe this life/business thing is similar; obstacles/problems are the point, and we just have to give them space, let them be where they are, work them, and continue on with the game.

PS: This blog post was thought of and written by me, no AI here, and is a mosaic of my experience, reading, and forward learning.