Chapter 2 - Impact of the Roadblocks in Our Life of the YES! BELIEVE

As narrated previously, every one of us can feel stuck at one time or another. There may existed the varying situations that make us to feel so. It can be either the bad relationship, the wrong selection of the business, and the wrong job, etc. Irrespective of the situation and the circumstances that give rise to these outcomes, feeling stuck doesn't make us feel good about ourselves. In case we don’t feel good about ourselves, we may lose control over the things and deviate from the track. It can lead to disappointment as well as depression. This chapter of the book will provide with the details related to the impact of the roadblocks on the human being’s life i.e., how they tend to influence daily-based activities by making the people to feel disappointed.

However, we need to realize that in life, sometimes things could just come up and get in our way there while we have planned everything properly. These things named with obstacles or roadblocks will always be there, and you have to accept them though. Life flows, and all we need to do is just roll with all those punches in these types of situations.

On the other hand, those roadblocks would definitely impact some of us who are not ready and feeling less confident than others. In fact, these roadblocks will even trap and keep us away from achieving our goals. Here are some impacts of the roadblocks in your life and how you should avoid them.

Placing Off Your Goals Up Until ‘Someday’

Well, there would never be ‘someday’ in any calendar, and thus, you would never able to achieve your goals if you remain to place them off. Remember, even the best of intentions would not do you any good if you do not have a strong plan.

This impact could be avoided by creating a timeline. If you think that your goal is quite important for you, then at least you need to confirm to yourself when you would work on it. Even if you might unable to start working on your goal today, but you need to stop using ‘someday’ to define when you would start it.

Wait Until I Am Ready

            Keep in mind that if you would only wait until you feel ready to work on something difficult, then you might never find the correct time for it. Instead, it is quite impossible if you would get any sudden burst of motivation out of nowhere. Hence, you need to change your behavior in this matter. You need to take some actions and let your emotions change later. At that moment, you might get that ambition feeling to drive you in moving forward.

Seeing Mistakes as Failure

            Yes, the roadblocks could impact you and make you see mistakes as failure. Seeing mistakes as failure is when you would think to step back and move all the way back to your starting line. Remind yourself that progress is something that hardly ever comes in a straight and easy line. To tackle down this impact, you need to recognize that it is okay to mess up sometimes. Thus, instead of stating a miserable failure for yourself, you can use your energy and build up a strategy to get back on the right track.

Disrupting Yourself before the Finish Line

            Fear has been mentioned as one of the roadblocks that might get on your way to achieve success. Now this fear could impact a real problem for you, and if you are not careful enough, then you might even disrupting or sabotaging yourself before you would reach the finish line. Maybe you are unable to believe that you are worthy enough to get success. To remove this kind of impact, you need to focus again on your previous goals, and how you have struggled to achieve them. You have to make friends with yourself so that this impact would not appear on you.

Giving Up Before You Even Able to See the Results

            Some roadblocks also might make you give up in the middle of the way before you even able to see the results that are coming to you. This is actually a sign that the roadblocks have made you to become an impatient person. Well, in these modern lives. The impatient people would not survive since most people have always put their struggle to wait for the right time for them to reach their goals. Hence, you need to assure that just because you are unable to see the results coming, it does not mean that all of your efforts are just wasted. Instead, it simply means that you need to remain focused to your main goals for a longer time than you might have predicted before.

Can Roadblocks Change Our Life?

            Most of times, these roadblocks come up as things that cannot easily be overcome. In fact, the main roadblocks could also change our life whether they would prevent or slow down our way to achieving our goals. For instance, having a baby is, indeed, one of the great life experience. However, if you would having a baby at the wrong time for example maybe at your college time, then it would able to throw a big loop into your previous plans. Now it does mean that this is a bad thing to face, but surely, you would have to switch on your focus and adjust with the situation accordingly. Yes, you would have to make choices, decisions on what you are going to do next in your life. Now this type of situation might influence and trigger for other changes in your life such as you might unable to get a good grade in college, you might having a conflict with your spouse, or you might get exhausted or ill.

Some roadblocks could be quite negative and able to create radical changes in your life plans. For this reason, you would need to make some adjustments whether your life changes into positive or negative ways. At times, you might end up in changing your previous goals, and this is okay since life would not run smoothly every time. Thus, you need to be a stronger person and believe that you can through all those roadblocks. Ultimately, remind yourself that YOU are the one who responsible and YOU have full control of all your decisions, therefore, it is time for you to take further action!