Obstacles Are Opportunities

A long time ago, there was a wise and wealthy king, and he took a massive boulder and put it in one of the streets to get to one of the main squares of his city. And then he went and hid in the bushes to see if anybody would actually move the boulder. And many people came through. Some of the king's wisest and wealthiest merchants came through, but nobody did anything to try to move the boulder. Some people cursed the king for leaving that there and not actually moving the boulder, but nobody did anything to move it until one peasant came through with his arms full of vegetables and realized that this was one of the main streets that people used and that he needed to try to do something to try to move the boulder out of the way. So he placed all of his vegetables on the ground and started to try to push the boulder. And the boulder didn't move at first, but after a lot of hard work, it started to move a little bit, and then it started to gain momentum, and he was able to move it out of the way. And when he went back to go collect his vegetables, he realized that under the boulder the entire time was a leather purse. And when he opened the leather purse inside of it, it was full of gold coins. And with those gold coins was a little note from the king that said, whoever moved that boulder would be able to keep this gold. See, the king was wise. He realized that with every obstacle that's in your way, there's actually an opportunity for you to improve your situation. It's like Thomas Edison says, most people miss opportunity because it's dressed up in overalls and looks like hard work. So next time you have an obstacle or you have something that looks like a barrier that's in your way, realize that you can actually use that obstacle as a way to improve and allow yourself to get better.