Learning to handle obstacles is the best way to stand your ground and succeed. While running away only undermines your self-esteem.
Nature presents you with these challenges in order to learn to weather the storm and grow stronger.
To succeed at overcoming obstacles you need to have the gut not to quit, but to see things through, to have the strong faith to believe more in yourself than in the obstacles and to have the willingness to do what it takes to turn the obstacles around.
This means, you need to stand up to your obstacles and believe you can overcome them. When you attack your obstacles and do something about them, you' ll find that they are not as threatening as they appeared to be at first.
Decide that you will not give up and if something has to give, it will have to be the obstacles and not you.
Standing up to your obstacles imparts you with a sense of accomplishment and reinforces the sense of your inner power. By developing a habit of facing resistance, you instill into your psyche a strong message of endurance and success. This strengthens the faith and the belief in yourself, which helps remind you of the responsibility to yourself.
Sometimes you may have to resort to some other measures to overcome obstacles. If you can' t get through the problem, try going around it, and if you can' t go around it, try getting under it, and if you can' t get under it, try going over it, and if you can' t go over it, just dive straight into it.
回顾一下，在你生命中的某一时刻，你突然灵光一闪，并冲动地想要作出一个重大改变。你会努力争取实现，还是会被内心的障碍阻止了脚步呢？
你的思想和信仰是成功的基础。在泥土和残骸上，你无法建造出一栋结实的房子，成功也是同样的道理。
如果你的思想和信仰摇摇欲坠，如果你不清除内心的障碍，它们就会阻碍你前进。
学会清理障碍是立足于大地并获得成功的最好办法，而逃避只会有损于你的自尊。
大自然将这些挑战呈现在你面前，是为了让你经受风雨的磨炼，然后更茁壮地成长。
要成功地清除障碍，你需要有决不放弃的勇气，要看清事物的本质。相对于那些障碍，对自己要拥有更强大的信念，还要有清除障碍所必需的主动性。
这意味着你必须勇敢地对抗自身的障碍，要相信自己一定能征服。当你向这些障碍发起攻击并有所行动时，就会发现它们并不像最初看上去的那样可怕。
下定决心，永不放弃。如果一定要有一方让步的话，那一定是障碍，而不是你。
与你的障碍对抗，你将获得一种成就感，它会使你内心的力量变得强大。培养一种直面反抗困难的好习惯。你就可以慢慢地给心灵灌输一种忍耐和成功的强大信念。这会使你自身的信仰和信心有所增加，从而有助于提醒你对自己负责。
要清除障碍，有时你还要采取其他办法。如果你不能扫除障碍，就试着绕过去；如果无法绕过去，那就控制它；如果控制不了，那就跳过去；如果无法跳过，那就径直冲过去。
inspired [in'spaid] adj. 有创造力的；有雄心壮志的；有灵感的
Even a mere glance would make you moved and inspired.
甚至仅仅只是一瞥也会给你感动和鼓舞。
significant [si'nifiknt] adj. 重要的；重大的；可观的；有重大意义的
This is one of the most significant studies of the subject.
这是对该课题最重要的研究之一。
debris [d'bri:] n. 散落的碎片；残渣；垃圾；废弃物
After the bombing there was a lot of debris everywhere.
轰炸过后到处是一片残骸。
undermine [,nd'main] v. 暗中破坏；逐渐削弱
Don't undermine your worth by comparing yourself with others.
It is because we are different that each of us is special.
不要拿自己和他人作比较，然后来贬低自己的价值。这是因为我们都是不同的，每个人都是特殊的。
你的思想和信仰是成功的基础。
学会清理障碍是立足于大地并获得成功的最好办法，而逃避只会有损于你的自尊。
下定决心，永不放弃。如果一定要有一方让步的话，那一定是障碍，而不是你。
Did you go for it or did your inner obstacles get in the way?
go for：追求；争取
Sometimes you may have to resort to some other measures to overcome obstacles.
resort to：依靠
失败者的学校
A School for Failures
塞隆·Q. 迪蒙 / Theron Q. Dumont
The man that is chosen at the crucial time is not usually a genius; he does not possess any more talent than others, but he has learned that results can only be produced by untiring concentrated effort. That "miracles," in business do not just "happen." He knows that the only way they will happen is by sticking to a proposition and seeing it through. That is the only secret of why some succeed and others fail. The successful man gets used to seeing things accomplished and always feels sure of success. The man that is a failure gets used to seeing failure, expects it and attracts it to him.
It is my opinion that with the right kind of training every man could be a success. It is really a shame that so many men and women, rich in ability and talent, are allowed to go to waste, so to speak. Some day I hope to see a millionaire philanthropist start a school for the training of failures. I am sure he could not put his money to a better use. In a year' s time the science of practical psychology could do wonders for him. He could have agencies on the lookout for men that had lost their grip on themselves; that had through indisposition weakened their will; that through some sorrow or misfortune had become discouraged.
At first all they need is a little help to get them back on their feet, but usually they get a knock downwards instead. The result is that their latent powers never develop and both they and the world are the losers. I trust that in the near future, someone will heed the opportunity of using some of his millions in arousing men that have begun to falter. All they need to be shown is that there is within them an omnipotent source that is ready to aid them, providing they will make use of it. Their minds only have to be turned from despair to hope to make them regain their hold.
When a man loses his grip today, he must win his redemption by his own will. He will get little encouragement or advice of an inspiring nature. He must usually regain the right road alone. He must stop dissipating his energies and turn his attention to building a useful career. Today we must conquer our weakening tendencies alone. Don' t expect anyone to help you. Just take one big brace, make firm resolutions, and resolve to conquer your weaknesses and vices. Really none can do this for you. They can encourage you; that is all.
I can think of nothing, but lack of health, that should interfere with one becoming successful. There is no other handicap that you should not be able to overcome. To overcome a handicap, all that it is necessary to do is to use more determination and grit and will.
The man with grit and will, may be poor today and wealthy in a few years; will power is a better asset than money; Will will carry you over chasms of failure, if you but give it the chance.
