No one can stop you. It feels like it sometimes doesn’t it? The boss is not giving the opportunities. The pay in this job will never be enough. The coach just didn’t do a good job. The product just didn’t perform as expected.

It’s easier to look outside ourselves and point the finger of blame, than it is to look inside and ask, “What can I do differently to get the result I want?”

So long you look outside of yourself, as the source of your difficulty—you’re stuck. It may be true, there are barriers. There may be things you don’t know enough about. It might be that someone has given you faulty information. So figure it out and move on.

Once you break through pointing fingers and seek out new paths, you are free. If your favorite road to travel to work is closed, that’s a shame. But, I’d bet there must be another way to get there.

If your office is west, and there is not even one single other road that goes west from where you are—well, just go east. Travel east until you junction with a road where you can circle around and come at your destination from a different direction

Break out. Look for new ways to get where you want to go, if something blocks you. It’s actually easier (and much more fun) to try new things, and seek out new options, instead of being a Negative Nellie and sitting around bemoaning your fate.

Challenges are natural. Do tough times occur? Without a doubt—for everyone. All this means is that you need to fire up your creative mind. Your creative subconscious can generate untold options when you get negativity out of the way.

In the book Illusions by Richard Bach, he said, “Every problem you encounter has a gift in its hands for you.” With every puzzle you solve, your life just became richer. Your sense of satisfaction grew a bit. Your ability to solve even harder puzzles just expanded.

Unchain your brain. You have amazing potential.

Accept the good that surrounds you. Explore new actions, and you’ll begin to manifest greater success. Set yourself free, and you will truly begin to live on a richer level.