Hey Gang:Teampublic31_2

It's your old buddy, Obstacles! 

I know, I know, I've been a little quiet lately.  But don't worry, I have been busy at work in the background, conjuring many exciting new ways to make you wimpify.  After all, dreams are overrated, business is hard, leadership is for sissies, and your momma dresses you funny, (and I won't even mention her combat boots).

Now, let's get down to the real stuff.

I know how many of you LIFE (what a stupid name for a company, talk about generic, your colors should be black and white like those dorky bargain canned goods at the grocery store) guys are all proud of your Power Player Program.  "Scores every time," you say.  "As long as it keeps working you'll keep doing it," you say.  "It doesn't matter if we tell the whole world what play we are going to run next, it will still work, and we'll still run it," you say.  Well, I've got the same kind of program.  I call it the Power Wimpifier Program.  And I'm so confident of its success, that I too will share it openly with you wimpy little leadership knuckleheads.

Here's how it works.  All I have to do is encourage the natural tendency in all of you to wimpify.  After all, you know you want to already!  For those of you tender types, all I have to do is get someone to hurt your feelings.  For you tough types, all I have to do is make sure someone else gets the recognition you think you deserve instead.  For you money-lovers, all I have to do is get you to think you aren't getting a big enough bonus check, or at least make you wonder why it was the size that it was.  For you fun-seekers, all I have to do is make you think you're bored.  For you judgmental types, all I have to do is get you to see more and more of your upline's flaws.  For you thinking types, all I have to do is get you to make assumptions about why someone did something and get you to think they did it from impure motives, and even on purpose.  For you organized types, all I have to do is get you to feel like everything is a mess.  For you detailed types, all I have to do is get you to sit through a presentation by someone who doesn't understand details.  For those of you who won't take responsibility, all I have to do is provide you with someone to blame.  For those of you who can't prioritize, all I have to do is give you a lot of things to consider all at once.  For those of you who can't handle resistance, all I have to do is get someone to give you some objections (my most common and effective are "price," "time," and "status"). 

Well, you get the idea how the first step in my program works.

The second step is the explanation.  You see, you can wimpify freely as long as you can come up with a good explanation that "covers" it.  Oh, don't worry.  No one else will believe it.  But that really doesn't matter when you are in the process of wimpification.  You see, all you have to do is get yourself to believe that others are believing it.  That's the way out!

Finally, there is the placing of blame squarely on the shoulders of someone else (note: this can be anybody other than yourself).

So here's the program, in summary:

1. Doubt, discouragement, jealousy, greed, ego, etc. causes Wimpification

2. Explanation is concocted to cover said Wimpification

3. Responsibility for lack of results is blamed on someone else

And there you have it.  My extremely effective, simple, straight-forward, almost guaranteed program for Un-success.

Just remember, life is short.  Don't waste it trying to accomplish something.  You deserve so much less! 

Obstacles over and out. 

And don't think I'm not watching you!

(Wimpify.  You know you want to!)     

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14 responses to “A Little Discouragement from Obstacles”

  1. coach Avatar
    coach

    Hey Obs – I have you sitting on my shoulder and in a favorite room in my house(thanks to St.Louis). I do feel, at times of frustration,the urge to wimpify and be a weiney-boy but I look at a picture of my family think of the 95%result and kick you off my shoulder and I go directly to read the Leadership blog of Orrin & Chris-make another call listen to a cd,and know I’m moving to the 5% who get results. I fail forward more and more-thanks Obs for leting me grow and know when the going gets tough the tough get going–be free coach

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  2. Lydia Seibert Avatar
    Lydia Seibert

    Hey Chris,
    Sure didn’t need a reminder that Obstacles is indeed alive and well! It’s scary how “omnipresent” that little guy is! It’s my thinking..it’s my thinking. Working on it, though.
    Personally I love the new Power Player program, as it does truly reward those who do the work. Seems a litle more of a challenge in some ways, but it does help me focus on the people I brought in and promised to help in the first place. If it helps me keep my integrity intact, then the ripple effect could be explosive.
    Great job once again!
    Lydia

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  3. brian Avatar
    brian

    Thanks Chris,
    You are amazing, I really needed that post!!!!
    Brian

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  4. Jim Kloosterman Avatar
    Jim Kloosterman

    Dang you obstacles, when I blame you for my unsuccess you LIKE IT! You sure are a crafty rascal.

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  5. Phyllis Hoff Avatar
    Phyllis Hoff

    Chris:
    This is a riot.
    This post reminds me of how my boss motivates me. He tells me every day he knows how to push my buttons. He always says all he has to do is say, “You can’t do that.” He tells me he does that on purpose to me, because he knows that the challenge to prove him wrong is so great, that I do go after what he says I cannot do.
    It is so funny, and it so works.
    I know there is a method to your madness in this post.
    Maybe you should have entitled the post CHALLENGE, since that is exactly what you are laying out for us.
    Thanks Chris, I love it.

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  6. Tina Abernathy Avatar
    Tina Abernathy

    Hey Chris,
    Tell your little friend obstacles that he has met his match in the TEAM. Tell him we know he was a huge success in St. Louis but because we can now identify him when he rears his ugly head we now know how to neutralize him even if it is only for one moment at a time. We have become even stronger since he now has a face and we will continue to press toward the mark of the higher calling. Finally, let him know we appreciate his candidness as it is always good to know what your ENEMY is thinking because it aids you in becoming a centurion who leads from the front.
    From the battle field,
    TA

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  7. dean clouse Avatar

    I just showed the plan to someone who would be very angry about this post because Obstacles dominates his life. Thanks for the reminder of Obstacles game plan! Power player is our game plan. Thanks buddy.

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  8. Ida Kinsley Avatar
    Ida Kinsley

    Hi Chris,
    Refering back to a previous post regarding Obstacles girl friend “If Only Ida”….
    Well “If only Ida” would become more organized…
    “If Only Ida” would become less High D….
    “If Only Ida ” would become less controlling and let her husband lead…..
    “If Only Ida” would have more positive self-talk….
    “If Only Ida” would be more relatable….
    “If Only Ida” would follow the system closer….
    “If Only Ida” would pick up the phone more….
    Well I think you get the idea.. Thanks for the wonderful reminder because it all comes down to personal responsibilty. It hits closer to home when its your own name..
    Thanks again.
    Ida

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  9. Matt Foote Avatar
    Matt Foote

    Chris,
    Thank you so much. These posts from our ol’ pal always take me so long to read. I takes me about 5 mins to regain my composure from laughter after every paragraph. Thanks for leading the charge against Obstacles and showing us all what is possible when you chase your dreams.
    Matt
    BBNQ

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  10. Bill Kolasa Avatar
    Bill Kolasa

    Obstacles,
    I want you to know that you will never master me. Your methods are many, constant, from every angle, and very attractive. But I know that we do not mesh. You mean to seduce me away from my Vision, and seducing me away from it is impossible. I know this is true because I’ve even sided with you at times, even lately, and there is always the reminding voice within me of what my deepest, soulful desires really are, and they do not match with what you propose to me.

    The following were self-affirmations that I wrote to myself at the end of work days a couple months ago. Witness in them that my Vision is eternal and therefore can never be taken from me.

    Friday, February 15, 2008
    There will come a day when I sit in the garden; when I watch my children playing in the yard; when I smile at them, and kiss my wife, and hug so them so deeply that I feel God within me; when I look back at my life as it is now, and look at the pictures and objects that pulled me, inevitably, to what I have.
    There will come a day when my dream is real. For God has placed within me the ability to dream, and alongside that ability, the capacity to achieve it. Therefore, the gap between What Is and What Shall Be is entirely traversable by me, and if I do not know that in my mind, it is only because I have not yet discovered it within my heart of hearts. For inventions are of things that have never before been. Discoveries are of things that are, and have always been. This is, and has always been, and shall always be, the Truth within my heart of hearts: That my dreams are possible and worth the present sacrifice.

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  11. I A N Avatar
    I A N

    Obstacles,
    I hope you didnt think bringing in your cousin difficultees’ (twice removed on the blamzees side of the family) to bug the team was gonna put the odds in your favor. I think it is funny your going to let him live in your basement for a bit, the mistake you made my “angry lil fellow” is that those things you have put in the teams way will and have only made us stronger, not only stronger but wiser we have become use to your tricky ways, so we can pass it along to someone who has not dealt with you or your siblings, every time you “pull a fast one” or bring in a “new or family member” you have just contributed to the “WE ARE GOING TO WIN CAMPAIGN”!!!! just so you know, you are welcome in this arena any time “stickboy” because you are fodder in the process of greatness.
    We all know because principal tell us so.
    Let these words echo in your head “None of us are as good as all of us” and you have to mess with all of us to get to any of us.

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  12. g.a.b. Avatar
    g.a.b.

    I’ll see you 2 discouragements, Obstacles, and ‘raise’ you…
    …via a swift kick in the pants!
    ;-]
    [Glinda voice] Now leave me alone, before someone drops a house on you![/Glinda voice]

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  13. Becky Avatar
    Becky

    Chris,
    Can I kick him?
    Even while I’m laughing, I’m thinking, “You jerk!!! I forgot that was you!”
    Thanks for the reminder 🙂

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  14. Sasha F Avatar
    Sasha F

    I just learned about Obstaclēs on the Rascal cd yesterday. I love this concept. When facing a challenge it truly helps to visualize conquering the little creature. Thank you!

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