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O B S T A C L E S
What are they?
Where are they?
Where do they come from?
How do we manage them?
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An Obstacle is…
• Webster defines as…
“something that
stands in the way or
obstructs progress”.
• Obstruction
• Hindrance
• Impediment
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Discussion Session #1
• Review definition of Obstacles
• Discuss “personal” definitions
• Discuss road block graphic …
– What does Wall represent?
– What emotions are characters conjuring?
– Are there any routes around the wall?
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Daily Obstacles Grid Exercise
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Daily Obstacles Grid Sample
Society Employee
Issues
Family
Issues
Economy
Growth: Company/Personal
Supervisors/
Management
Politics Personal
Issues
Loved Ones
Friends
Co-workers
Faith
Goals: Company/Personal
Finances
Motivation
Fulfillment
Satisfaction
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Discussion Session #2
• Compile “grid” of Daily obstacles
• Identify/review common road blocks
• Review/discuss methods of overcoming:
– Stumbling blocks vs. Stepping Stones!
– Concede or Conquer?
• “Are you a victim of, or victor over your obstacles?”
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Obstacle Management
• How we manage
obstacles on a daily
basis…
• …determines whether
we “move” or stand
still!
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Obstacle Management
• Sometimes we can feel
as though we are on a
“sinking ship” with no
hope for salvation.
• What happens when
we feel this way?
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Obstacle Management
• How we feel about
ourselves will
reflect in how we
see ourselves.
• How we see
ourselves is how
others will see us!
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Obstacle Management
• If “Perception
is reality”,
then…
• How do we
change our
Reality?
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Applying The 5 P’s* to Managing
Obstacles
• Purpose
• Pride
• Patience
• Persistence
• Perspective
• * Adapted from: The Power of Ethical Management by Kenneth Blanchard and Norman
Vincent Peale.
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Purpose
• The reasons for which
we exist…an intended
or desired result…
• Aim
• Goal
• Determination
• Design
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Pride
• …the state or feeling
of being proud
• Self-esteem
• Self-respect
• Ego
• Vanity
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Patience
• The bearing of annoyance, misfortune, pain without complaint, loss of temper or the like…
• Composure
• Stability
• Endurance
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Persistence
• The act of continuing
firmly in some
state…or purpose or
course of action in
spite of opposition…
• Indefatigable
• Pertinacious
• Tenacious
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Perspective
• The facts known to one
in having a
meaningful
interrelationship…
• The faculty of seeing
all the relevant data in
a meaningful
relationship…
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The Most Difficult Obstacles
• …“are the ones we
place in front of
ourselves”…MDK
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Daily Creed
• “Lord, let me commit
this day…to not be the
one who gets in my
way!”MDK
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