Presentation on defining Obstacles and steps to overcome them.

1. OBSTACLES
What are they?
Where are they?
Where do they come from?
How do we manage them?
Created by Michael D. Kerwick

2. An Obstacle is…
• Webster defines as…
“something that
stands in the way or
obstructs progress”.
• Obstruction
• Hindrance
• Impediment
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3. Discussion Session #1
• Review definition of Obstacles
• Discuss “personal” definitions
• Discuss road block graphic …
– What does Wall represent?
– What emotions are characters conjuring?
– Are there any routes around the wall?
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4. Daily Obstacles Grid Exercise
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5. Daily Obstacles Grid Sample
Society Employee Family Economy
Issues Issues
Growth: Supervisors/ Politics Personal
Company/Personal Management Issues
Loved Ones Friends Co-workers Faith
Goals: Fulfillment
Company/Personal Finances Motivation Satisfaction
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6. Discussion Session #2
• Compile “grid” of Daily obstacles
• Identify/review common road blocks
• Review/discuss methods of overcoming:
– Stumbling blocks vs. Stepping Stones!
– Concede or Conquer?
• “Are you a victim of, or victor over your obstacles?”
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7. Obstacle Management
• How we manage
obstacles on a daily
basis…
• …determines whether
we “move” or stand
still!
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8. Obstacle Management
• Sometimes we can feel
as though we are on a
“sinking ship” with no
hope for salvation.
• What happens when
we feel this way?
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9. Obstacle Management
• How we feel about
ourselves will
reflect in how we
see ourselves.
• How we see
ourselves is how
others will see us!
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10. Obstacle Management
• If “Perception
is reality”,
then…
• How do we
change our
Reality?
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11. Applying The 5 P’s* to Managing
Obstacles
• Purpose
• Pride
• Patience
• Persistence
• Perspective
• * Adapted from: The Power of Ethical Management by Kenneth Blanchard and Norman
Vincent Peale.
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12. Purpose
• The reasons for which
we exist…an intended
or desired result…
• Aim
• Goal
• Determination
• Design
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13. Pride
• …the state or feeling
of being proud
• Self-esteem
• Self-respect
• Ego
• Vanity
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14. Patience
• The bearing of
annoyance,
misfortune, pain
without complaint,
loss of temper or the
like…
• Composure
• Stability
• Endurance
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15. Persistence
• The act of continuing
firmly in some
state…or purpose or
course of action in
spite of opposition…
• Indefatigable
• Pertinacious
• Tenacious
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16. Perspective
• The facts known to one
in having a
meaningful
interrelationship…
• The faculty of seeing
all the relevant data in
a meaningful
relationship…
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17. The Most Difficult Obstacles
• …“are the ones we
place in front of
ourselves”…MDK
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18. Daily Creed
• “Lord, let me commit
this day…to not be the
one who gets in my
way!” MDK
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