Mastering our optometric obstacles

“I've always found that anything worth achieving will always have obstacles in the way, and you've got to have that drive and determination to overcome those obstacles on route to whatever it is that you want to accomplish.”  Chuck Norris

Accomplishing goals can be a challenge, even in the best-case scenario. A clear vision of your end goals will help mitigate the obstacles that lie ahead of you. Steven Pressfield describes such obstacles as resistance in his book The War of Art. The metaphysical world dictates that every dream has resistance, and the closer one comes to seeing that dream to fruition, he will inevitably experience greater resistance to fulfilling that dream. Clearing those obstacles can make for a more enriching life experience.

Optometrists can feel truly accomplished when they finally reach the pinnacle of their success.

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Overcoming obstacles

While on a cruise to Alaska last year, I had time to reflect on an obstacle faced by many who ventured to Alaska long before cruise ships were commonplace. 

One of the excursions I had the pleasure of doing while at port in Skagway was the White Pass & Yukon Route Railroad. Built in 1898 during the Klondike Gold Rush, the White Pass & Yukon Route is a narrow-gauge railroad that is considered an International Historic Civil Engineering Landmark, a designation shared with the Panama Canal, the Eiffel Tower, and the Statue of Liberty.

It is recognized for the many difficult and hazardous obstacles that needed to be conquered for its completion: design challenges, granite mountains, steep grades, cliff-hanging turns, and unimaginable weather conditions. The courage and brave acts of the workers under the leadership of dedicated builders are a testament to this very day.

So how does one get past the obstacles that get in our way? Specifically, how can an optometrist understand and face his obstacles in an effort to reach the pinnacle of success?

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