In this episode, we discuss how we need to be decisive with our lives if we want to get past many of the obstacles that we face.
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Hi Everyone, welcome to the You’re Daily Cup of Joe Podcast, with your host Joe Bautista. In this podcast, my goal is to give you quick lessons that you can reflect on in your journal so you can grow yourself physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually and have a better career, better relationships, and better personal finances while you enjoy your morning cup of coffee.
I’m also the author of the book “More You Know, More You Grow: How to Get Better Every Day”. In this book, I wrote down over 30 tips to help you grow in those four cornerstones. I’m also the founder of Grow With Joe, where I combine self-development coaching and financial planning for Latino Professionals.
In today’s episode, we are going to talk about the cure for most obstacles, which is to be decisive. There is a great quote by Marcus Aurelius that says “The impediment to action, advances action. What stands in the way, becomes the way.”
And this quote is about how we can’t wait for an obstacle to go away or go around it. We must go through it. Hence, why we need to be decisive without obstacles.
I recently lost my debit card here in Colombia. And I gave myself two hours to find my debit card before I finally called my bank to get it replaced. Then I had to call my mom because it was getting shipped to her, to ask her if she could FedEx it.
The FedEx route cost me two weeks without my debit card, and once I canceled it, if I would found my lost debit card, it would be useless because it would be canceled. Well, luckily for me, I guess, I didn’t find my debit card and I got my card back. Now if I would have been indecisive, then I would have been waiting a lot longer for my debit card.
Many times, to get over an obstacle, we have to be willing to accept our losses and move on with our lives. I had to cut my losses, and accept the fact that my card was lost, and even if I did find it, then it was still a good move to make.
Now when it comes to our problems, there are three ways we can pay to solve those problems. We can pay with our time, our patience, or our money. And as an obstacle comes up, we have to be decisive in how we want to get through that obstacle. For myself, I used patience and time first by looking in my apartment for two hours. Then I used money and time, by paying for the FedEx and waiting the two weeks to get my debit card back.
When it comes to other obstacles in life, you can spend time learning a new subject, which would also require patience. And it might require some money as well. I know when I have an obstacle, I first use google. Then if that doesn’t work, then I hire someone on Fiverr to solve it. This is pretty good for simple routine steps.
When it comes to complex obstacles like personal problems, relationship problems, deep-rooted business problems, then it’s going to require a different mixture of the three. I would say it would be more time, more patience, and more money. If you don’t have money, then it will require more time and patience. But this can be okay. I have found that reading a book has given me the insight that helped me get through my obstacles. So this took patience and time.
Reading Nelson Mandela’s book helped me get over my divorce and this book took like 10 hours to read. I was being decisive in my actions though. Instead of pondering, I took some type of action. I also journal every day and this action helps me get my emotions out and allows me to focus on getting results.
We are all going to have setbacks, but it’s what we do next is what is going to get us back on our feet. Even if I made a wrong move with my obstacles, I can learn from that event and learn how to do better the next time around. The only time an obstacle wins is when I quit and let the obstacle win. So keep taking action and have the right perspective to allow to keep moving forward.
And that’s it for today’s episode, to summarize it, the cure for most obstacles is to be decisive. Now, some obstacles require careful planning, but this is really for major obstacles that require huge societal changes. When it comes to personal obstacles, most of the time it requires decisive moves, but make sure that the moves are rooted in justice, duty, and morality. If you do this, then most obstacles will become five-minute problems. This will also take courage and strength to take the leap, but each time you be decisive, you’re building up these skills. So take action and you should be fine.
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