gadget weight

The obstacle that keeps you from throwing a thing away might be the need to admit that you were tricked into thinking the thing was important in the first place.

how

One reason to ask for help is that a problem that looks complicated to you may have a simple solution that is obvious to someone else.

late additions

When you can’t do what you had planned, choose something else.

opening

There is a way to do each thing you are imagining, but you might not be able to see it until you get the plans, doubts, worries, theories, and compromises out of the way.

speed bump

Speed doesn’t mean anything until something collides with something else.

low profile

If you have decided to keep things that are obstacles to someone, look for ways to make the thing less of an obstacle. Consider whether the thing can be moved, made smaller, or minimized in some other way.

emotional obstacle

Material things can be emotional obstacles if anyone has to make an effort to avoid seeing a thing or thinking about what the thing implies. In the worst case, people may avoid a room or a building most of the time to avoid confronting the things that are inside. If there is a room that no one goes into, try to determine which thing or things everyone is trying to avoid seeing.

physical obstacle

Things can be physical obstacles to you or others. If anyone has to take extra steps or precautions to go past something, consider whether that thing has to be there at all.

revenge of the owners

Try not to own things that make you angry.

self-critic

“If you criticize the life you exist in, you are criticizing the person who you once were, and that is not honoring your journey.” — Laura Ansell

top-heavy

Clutter can disguise itself as forming a solid foundation for your life, but it is actually the exact opposite.

unstumbled

After you remove the obstacle you may have to remove the mental habit of expecting an obstacle.

chips

If you are willing to do the things that seem almost too small to matter, that will lead quickly to the bigger things that you really want to do. But if you object to the work in front of you, complaining that it is too small to bother with, you will remain blocked from the big things in life.

straight line

Identify the routine activities in which you face hassles or obstacles almost every day. Then find a way that one of those activities can go more smoothly.

rear view mirror

If you can keep things looking good and going smoothly, the current troubles, once ended, may be more easily forgotten.

just go

It is equally valid to see an ordinary drive as consisting of obstacle after obstacle or as containing no obstacles at all.

two sides

The people who are most eager to criticize your failure may be the same people who got in your way.

triggered

Everything that bothers you can tell you something about yourself.

out of the fog

If you’re facing persistent illusions in your inner world, work on clarifying the world around you.

in the way

The biggest obstacles are the biggest obstacles.