Overcoming Obstacles
A while back I was driving from my home in the mountains to my office down in town. On the road I pass over several cattle guards — those metal grates that stretch across the road to keep cattle grazing on the wild lands to their assigned grazing areas. On this particular occasion I had to slow way down to avoid cattle that had just been let off for their spring and summer grazing. They were slowly milling across the road just in front of a cattle guard.
I moved forward as the cattle parted way and as I approached the cattle guard I saw an amazing thing. A small yearling calf was carefully picking its way across the cattle guard. It was plinking each hoof down carefully on each iron grate moving ever so slowly across the breadth of the cattle guard. It was literally crossing what was supposed to be an un-crossable barrier.
I sat and watched and wondered at its intelligence and persistence. Then it hit me.
Too many times we stand passively by thinking we have reached a barrier we can’t cross. Forget the conventional wisdom, if you plot out a careful course, plinking carefully down each step at a time, you can cross any obstacle and reach the other side.
That’s what will separate you from the rest of the herd.
