How to Turn Obstacles Into Opportunity

Daily Boost Motivation and Coaching

Scott Smith

Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement

3.9 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2022

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever wondered how much easier things would be if you didn’t have to think so much? What if the future or your past didn’t matter? Imagine if you didn’t worry about the possessions, success, or drama of others? What would happen if you believed that YOU are in control? Now you are starting to think like a Stoic Philosopher. Stoicism is about paring down and simplifying. They eliminate unproductive traits that define the majority of the population. One of the most common is by turning obstacles upside down, creating opportunities, and seeing them as teachable moments. For a Stoic, every bad thing becomes a new source of good. Marcus Aurelius said it this way, “The impediment to action advances action. What stands in your way becomes the way.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	So what if everything was easier than you'd think it is?
0:21.2	What if not senior, but what if you were overthinking things and putting too much thought
0:24.8	into things and wondering, and wondering it too much, what if it could be easier
0:29.9	well it can be what you need to mindset shift.
0:33.2	We can take any obstacle that is in your way, turn it into an opportunity if you think
0:36.7	about it right.
0:37.7	I know you can do it because you do it all the time, but today we're going to make it even
0:39.5	easier, okay?
0:40.5	Is that cool?
0:41.5	Awesome.
0:42.5	Let's do this thing.
0:43.5	It is a daily boost from motivationemove.com.
0:44.5	Since way back in 2006, I had this crazy idea of podcasting wasn't better.
0:47.6	And I said, hey, it looks that's still podcasts and I was, well, I'm a podcast dinosaur,
0:52.1	right?
0:53.1	I'm still not extinct.
0:54.1	Closed to what I think.
0:55.3	There are like 5,000 podcasts when we started so long ago when I was like 4 million of them,
0:59.6	but the simple premise is this, what if there was somebody every single day who just had
1:04.3	a very simple message and a message to us, stand up, take a step and repeat.
1:07.1	The life begins when you move and I know life's going to get in the way and as long as
1:10.5	you can somehow get out of bed and still believe in yourself and believe in what your
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