Anything worth doing involves overcoming obstacles—sometimes they’re small and other times enormous. Sometimes they’re expected and other times they are complete curveballs. One way to help get past setbacks is to remember that they are coming. There’s a slide I use in a lot of presentations and talks that I give. On one side of the slide there’s a picture of a grassy mountain on a sunny day, and I show a line pointing near the top, to the word “me.” On the other side there’s a photo of a steep, dangerous mountain on a dark and stormy day, and I show a line pointing to the very bottom, where it also reads “me.”
