There's always a next step

Follow my lead on this one.

Let's say any project, goal, or path is a series of steps. You cannot cheat and skip steps to finish the path, and there are always enough easy steps to finish the path.

Now, as you travel along the path, you find a block in your way. You come to the conclusion that the block cannot be bypassed without a large amount of effort.

Put another way, it's like attempting to jump over several steps on a stairway. It takes much more effort, and there's a limit on how far you can jump.

I would submit that the block itself is part of the path, and the steps to go through the block are there.

What may be happening is your mind sees a group of steps as a single step, and refuses to see it as the series of steps it actually is.

So, to get through the block, you need to find those steps, and just as before, take them one at a time, until the block is behind you.


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