Your Greatest Obstacle

“What’s stopping you?” was a question I asked in my video for the Reaching Re-Birth project.

The same question comes up in almost every coaching conversation: the clients – coachees have a specific goal or know what they want to create. What is stopping them then?

During a presentation yesterday, I invited the audience to do an exercise. Towards the end of that exercise, I asked them to identify the obstacles in the way of their goal; internal and external. A few minutes later, the answer was clear: there are no obstacles.

The greatest challenge to overcome is always our self and what lies inside our head. It appears as our inner critic, our gremlins, limiting beliefs we are hooked on, the chatter inside our brain about the worst case scenario and the magnification of some potential unfavorable conditions; about anything that will prove how our limiting beliefs are right.

Happiness, success, fulfillment, it all originates in our own mind. Stop getting in your own way.