This becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy and can also be a rather lazy way of sidestepping the tasks in life that require a little thinking outside of the ordinary.
But often, it seems, success imposes on such trailblazers a countervailing duty to minimize the social challenges that make their stories so extraordinary, and to sidestep "the great task remaining before us," as Lincoln summed up the racial forecast for the nation he had just preserved.
Unfortunately, the court sidestepped that task in deciding the Missouri case.
The plan relies solely on Obama's executive powers -- thereby sidestepping Congressional involvement (Congress proved not up to the task of facing our changing climate during the epic fail of the 2010 climate bill).
"Almost immediately, you abandon essential habits, routines, and relationships to focus on the task at hand," says Cat Castellanos, founder of Sidestep Strategies, which bills itself as the first inner crisis management firm in Los Angeles.
At the time of Judge Kaye's plan for changes in 2006, critics said it was a Band-Aid approach that sidestepped the politically risky task of challenging the local justices.
But the senators' sidestepping a vote that many of them had dreaded may prove easier than the task ahead for the Republican-controlled Legislature.
The task will require dedicated and talented people in government agencies and in communities who recognize that the country's future depends on their sidestepping the ideological battles, encouraging local change, and following the results.
Started in 2011, MCX was tasked with creating a mobile payments method that would let the retailers sidestep the 2% to 3% fee they pay credit card companies when their customers pay via swipe in brick-and-mortars.
They comfortably sidestep the word addict.
Other doctors sidestep the issue altogether.
