I may call this thing an obstacle but it isn’t.

It is much more.  Sorry.  It’s a complicated, and maybe complex system of people and connections and skills and issues and needs.  When I call it an “obstacle,” making it almost invulnerable, it’s likely because of I’m panicking or fearful.

The more accurately I can describe what I really face the more chance I have of seeing where potential opportunities lie within it.

There’s one more element to the “obstacle.”

Me.  I have to know myself accurately.  Only then I may bring the full me to bear on what I must overcome.

The best way of knowing who I am arises from knowing who others are, who may become the people who bring help in the form of skills and abilities I do not possess.