Overcoming Obstacles

Educator Booker T. Washington said, “success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.” 

As much as we want life to be easy and hassle-free, obstacles come regularly.  We face challenges in school, relationships, and businesses.  These hindrances force us to stop and ask ourselves, “what do I do now?” or “what’s my next move?”

Triumph Over Obstacles

I have a relative who recently joined the United States Navy.  Her recruitment training was supposed to last eight weeks.  After the first two weeks, there was a problem with her paperwork which pushed back the graduation date.  She got that corrected, and then three weeks later, she didn’t pass the running portion of her training – graduation was delayed again.  She continued with the recruitment training but then had a health issue – the graduation date delayed for the third time.  After being transferred to multiple divisions and ships, my niece graduated from recruitment training after 18 weeks.  She is now a sailor in the United States Navy.