Your actions may seem to be stilted, you may be unsure of where you need to go and what you need to do. But you start on the road anyway. After a few tottering baby steps, you gain confidence and you walk the next part a little quicker. After a few days or weeks of moving faster you can sometimes take huge leaps. You don't need the same kinds of prompts, you know what to do, and you do it easily. Now you are really motoring, progress comes faster, problems are no longer problems because you have mastered the skills you need and you can adapt your patterns and behaviours to take in the minor bumps that you encounter.

Then one day - disaster.

Someone has built a nice brick wall in your path, and you didn't even notice.

So what do you do? Well you could stop and stay exactly where you are, or you could find a way around the obstacle. Can you modify your behaviour so that you can go around it? How about learning a new skill and burrowing under or climbing over it?

Have you noticed - life is like that.

It doesn't matter what you are doing - be it, building websites, or a new marketing company - you think you know all about your opposition, but you didn't see the new start up muscling in on your customers until they called to cancel the account. How did you not notice that coming?

For every business out there, there is another one waiting in the wings. So it is essential that you don't run madly along, without taking stock of what is going on around you. Are you running so quickly you forget to speak to your existing clients? Do you promise things that you have no hope in delivering in time? Or you do deliver but the quality is poor?

Or how about exercising - that brick wall tends to be a pulled something or other...no wall climbing until that heals please.

So what can you do?

For instance, if your brick wall is your inability to stop consuming things you know that are bad for you, then you are really going to have to find an alternative way of getting around your particular problem (usually weight loss followed by weight gain followed by less weight loss followed by .....). So what do you do? Well it goes back to how badly you want something. You could exercise more, put a lock on the pantry door and throw away the key or you could get advice from a nutritionist.

One thing I know for sure, only you are responsible for getting around your brick wall.

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"You can be whatever type of person you choose to be. Your habits, your behaviours, your responses, are all your choice" Anon
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