Plenty of ultra-successful people have had to face harsh lessons and obstacles in the moment, but you have the luxury of time and preparation.
The company that successfully implements a new or better way of competing pursues its approach with dogged determination, often in the face of harsh criticism and tough obstacles.
Despite enormous obstacles and a harsh climate and terrain, considerable progress has been achieved: the chances of survival for children and women have increased considerably; more children and adolescents are enrolled in school at all levels, and larger numbers of families have access to clean and safe water, particularly in urban areas.
But these people insist that Mr. Murdoch's harsh assessment is neither an obstacle nor a deterrent as Mr. Romney decides whether to pursue another White House campaign.
These are just additional hurdles in a frequently harsh environment, and like most other obstacles confronting Alaskans, they do not seem to overly trouble anyone.
Yet according to Phil Bresnahan, a senior development engineer at Scripps Institute of Oceanography one of the leading ocean and climate change research facilities worldwide the harsh environment isn't the only obstacle the project's engineers face.
The difficulty of building the train, challenging terrain, predatory wildlife, resistance from the indigenous residents, harsh living conditions, these were such formidable obstacles even more than a century later the idea still seems crazy.
Potential topics: How to stay motivated when facing a harsh deadline or How to get over obstacles that stand in the way of your goals.
He said as recently as this past April that "good people don't smoke marijuana," and has been one of the biggest obstacles to bipartisan efforts to reduce harsh federal sentences for nonviolent drug offenders.
Some critical issues such as structural material, harsh operating condition and high capital costs were considered obstacles to be actualized.
