{"id":1242,"date":"2014-01-10T11:06:05","date_gmt":"2014-01-10T01:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redhotinternetmarketing.com\/blog\/?p=1242"},"modified":"2017-04-28T14:31:14","modified_gmt":"2017-04-28T04:31:14","slug":"overcoming-obstacles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redhotinternetmarketing.com\/blog\/overcoming-obstacles\/","title":{"rendered":"Overcoming Obstacles: Getting Through The Mud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s only the tenth day of the year and I&#8217;m already feeling overwhelmed!<\/p>\n<p>The cold hard truth is that completing tasks and meeting objectives in business is just hard. As soon as I start something there&#8217;s an extra step I have to do before I can go forward; that feeling of overwhelm seems to stop me in my tracks; and then of course there&#8217;s my old friend, procrastination! Each of these serves to block the path ahead.<\/p>\n<p>I remember when my nephew (he&#8217;s 44 now &#8211; eek!) was very young and starting to dress himself. He&#8217;d pull up his pants so high they were almost at his neck.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m employing that memory to help me. The way through this sludge is to pull my pants up high and get on with it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redhotinternetmarketing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/overcomingsludge-mud.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1589\" alt=\"overcoming-obstacles-to-success\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redhotinternetmarketing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/overcomingsludge-mud-300x199.jpg?resize=300%2C199\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe only way through is through and if I can convince myself there&#8217;s a sense of urgency around it, I can get through<!--more--> quicker into calm flowing waters.<\/p>\n<p>Today I&#8217;m creating a desperate urge to finish something I started eons ago that is haunting me. I HAVE to get the job done as efficiently, as completely and as quickly as possible.<\/p>\n<p>I reckon that&#8217;s one of the keys to getting things done &#8211; having that sense of time criticalness!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s only the tenth day of the year and I&#8217;m already feeling overwhelmed! The cold hard truth is that completing tasks and meeting objectives in business is just hard. As soon as I start something there&#8217;s an extra step I have to do before I can go forward; that feeling of overwhelm seems to stop&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/redhotinternetmarketing.com\/blog\/overcoming-obstacles\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Overcoming Obstacles: Getting Through The Mud<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[41,94],"tags":[207,233,270],"class_list":["post-1242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-productivity","tag-goals","tag-motivation","tag-overcoming-obstacles"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3M6th-k2","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redhotinternetmarketing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redhotinternetmarketing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redhotinternetmarketing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redhotinternetmarketing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redhotinternetmarketing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redhotinternetmarketing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redhotinternetmarketing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redhotinternetmarketing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redhotinternetmarketing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}