At such moments, giving up dejection, depression and so on, and strengthening fortitude and self-confidence, one should keep marching ahead on the path of success. Obstacles, difficulties and hiccups in any task that we undertake, generally cause people to lose confidence, become impatient, dejected, depressed or frustrated. Enthusiasm gets dampened when expectations are not fulfilled.
Such negative feelings prevent us from putting forth further efforts. Such feelings themselves become obstacles to success. One man said, “In the beginning itself I had a feeling that things would not work out. Then I followed your positive thinking philosophy. It worked. Now I am positive that things will not work!” It is these subjective feelings that become major problems. Also someone said, ‘A problem is that which you start seeing, when you lose sight of your goal.’
When you lose your focus and get distracted from the goal, even small obstacles look big and get us down.The great never allow external difficulties to get them down.They accept that when you drive during office hours, there will be traffic.
There is no need to complain or get angry. Even when obstacles knock them down, they immediately bounce back and move ahead with renewed enthusiasm and fortitude, never losing their confidence and poise.
Obstacles then become their stepping stones to success. A scientist failed in his experiment several times. Undejected, he said, “I have discovered twenty ways of how not to do the experiment. With the twenty-first way, I will find out how to do it right.”