Why obstacles are your friend - Part 2

So, a weekend off after some extensive DIY rendered me rather tired!

Reason 2 then for why Obstacles are your friend.

Think of an obstacle course, the ones that you might see if you were watching army training.  Now there is a set of obstacles!

But what are they training for?  A war does not involve climbing up nets or crawling through drain pipes. 

They are of course training to get fit.  Without the obstacles, they could still run the 800 yards or so that represents the distance of the obstacle course but if they did that, although there would be some fitness increase, it would not be as great as it is if they have the obstacles to get through.

The obstacles on the course are not just about making the person aerobically fitter either, the obstacles build up strengths and agilities that the person conducting the course would not have simply by running further and faster on the flat.  In other words, they provide added benefits.

So, even though the war itself is not about the obstacles, they do however make the soldiers fit to carry out the war.

Obstacles in life are just the same.  If you reached all of your end goals today, you probably would not know what to do with them, you would probably be overwhelmed. 

So obstacles in life build your capacity and your ability to be able to enjoy your goal once you finally reach it.  And, just like the soldiers, the obstacles do not necessary have to directly relate to the end goal itself, they are just life’s natural way of getting you fit to really enjoy those goals when you finally get there. They are literally your personal training course – and you don’t even have to pay a fee like you would have to if you went to the gym!

So there you have it, Obstacles are:

1.    Your sign that you are actually moving towards your goal

2.    Your personal trainer to get you nice and fit to really enjoy that goal once you get there.

I still have more reasons, but for those you will have to wait for tomorrow!