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The One Thing You Should Do To Achieve Your Goals More Easily
Start identifying the obstacles that trip you up and remove them.
I have a love/hate relationship with cookies.
I love all kinds of cookies, especially those that contain flour, butter, and sugar. So, basically, all of them. I hate them because they always seem to disagree with the numbers I want to see on my bathroom scale.
I know that I’m so defenseless against cookies that I never even walk down the cookie aisle in the grocery store. Cookies represent an obstacle to achieving what matters the most to me right now: lower numbers on my scale. So I am making it a point to have no ready access to them, so I can’t easily give in to a cookie-eating urge, even if I wanted to.
I’m practicing one of the best ways to succeed at a goal: making it easier to do what matters most by removing an obstacle that stands in the way of success.
Cookies definitely stood in my way, so I blocked them by not letting them into my house, making it easier to achieve my goal.
I’m certainly not the first one to come up with this idea. The poet and writer Maya Angelou understood the importance of…
