What is Your Major Struggle?

Most of us have more than one struggle in life and are frustrated when we don’t seem to be making progress. Figure out what your biggest struggle in life is right now and what to do about it. Walk through the steps to end your struggle.

My name is Rick Simon and I will be your guide through this perplexing problem.

Why do so many people fail to get past barriers in life to achieve their dreams?

Is it because they are not strong enough, they don’t recognize their barriers, or do they not believe they can overcome them, so they don’t even try?

If there was a way to overcome your biggest challenge, would you want to know it?

Well there is a way, but people seem to overlook it, and never get past their biggest struggles. It has two steps. First, know what your biggest struggle is. Second, keep focused on it until you overcome it. We let less important problems take all our time and wonder why we don’t make progress on the big things.

My Major Struggle (MS) was Multiple Sclerosis (MS). Yours probably isn’t! I have MS, but MS doesn’t have me. Learning some 35 years ago that I had MS was the biggest obstacle I have had to overcome. Learning that I had MS was a shocker. It was a life changing event. I didn’t know MS was going to present a series of other struggles as life went on. For each one, I could use the same strategy to get through.

So maybe you know what your Major Struggle (MS) is, but maybe you don’t.

Do you think it would be easier to overcome barriers if you could focus on one at a time?

Which barrier, challenge, or obstacle should you focus on first? Let’s start to figure it out. If you already know what it is, write it down along with what it is blocking you from doing, having, or becoming. Now move on to step 2.

If you have a bunch of challenges, then you need to figure out what your MS is. If that is your situation, take a piece of paper and make a big T on it, like a balance sheet. Down the left side list all the obstacles, barriers, and challenges you have in your life.

These are candidates for your MS. Having done this, one may pop out to you as being the biggest one. If that happens, write it down. Then write down what it is preventing you from doing, having, or becoming, and move on to step 2.

If you still don’t know, write what each challenge is preventing you from doing, having or becoming. Write them on the right side of your “T.” As you do, you might come across more challenges. Add them to the left side of the “T” with the other challenges.

Then you will have a list of obstacles, on the left, matched up with things they are blocking you from, on the right. Maybe your MS will jump out at you at this stage.

Look at the things your barriers are blocking you from, and put a check mark next to the most important one(s). If you can pick one, that is your MS.

If you end up with a few, look at those few and put another check mark next to the most urgent one(s). Pick the one you need to deal with first, or quickest. If you can pick one, that is your MS.

If you still don’t have it down to one, look at the ones that have two check marks next to them. Put another check mark next to the easiest one(s) to overcome. Picking the easiest will lead to the fastest results. You will see the process work, and can come back to the others once you overcome your MS. If you can pick one, that is your MS.

If after all this, you still can’t get down to one, then pick one, any one, that has three check marks next to it. These are the most important, most urgent, and easiest, so it doesn’t matter which one you choose. Pick one to focus on right now and come back to the others once you have solved that one or have it under control.

Once you know what your MS is, you can move to step 2, and focus on getting past that challenge. With your focus on that one thing, you will get past it. When you do, you can come back to solve the others, one at a time, as they bubble to the top and become your Major Struggle.