There's no way around it...

“The best way out is always through.” (Robert Frost) from the Jack’s Winning Words Blog. How true. We often use terms like getting around something or over something, which both have the underlying premise that one is avoiding going through that something. Well, in life, it is seldom possible to go around or over the obstacles that stand between us and our goals – we need to work our way through them. For many that is a daunting thought. It means that you really can’t avoid doing those things that you abhor, that you just have to drive straight ahead and work your way through them.

So, rather than wasting a lot of time trying to come up with creative ways to avoid doing what needs to be done or trying to convince yourself that avoiding what needs to be done, in hopes that those things can be by-passed; it’s time to suck it up and dive into those tasks. Maybe you can get through them by using the baby-steps approach. Take that list of 100 people that you need to call and break it down into 10 lists of 10 people. Each list won’t look as daunting then. Or maybe you were planning to update your Web site. Do it one page at a time, instead of all at once. Or maybe you planned start blogging and just couldn’t think or what to write about. Start by adding a comment someone else’s blog and then think about how something you’ve read in another blog or in the news applies to your local market and write about that.

The point is to work your way through whatever is standing in your way to success. These are often relatively simple tasks that have just become huge roadblocks in our on imaginations. Just tell yourself – “There is no way around it – I must go through it.”