Persisting Through Barriers Toward Success

When one door closes, another opens.

Aimée Sparrow
2 min readAug 26, 2024
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We are all faced with barriers when trying to achieve our dreams. Sometimes, the worst barrier is ourselves and our depressive or anxious tendencies preventing us from moving forward. For instance, when faced with a barrier I felt I could not overcome, I devised a tangible action plan and worked on it incrementally. If I did not reach my goal, I would pick up on some essential life lessons to propel me forward. Depression threw me down and kept me down, so none of it was helpful.

Many of us want to overcome and escape, which drives us innately. We might envision a goal that would bring us bliss, joy, and happiness. This ideal euphoric utopic aim allows us to pause to plot our course, even subconsciously, toward a better, wilder, and more worthwhile future. If we have a constant tension headache and low heart rate variability, pain all over our body in our muscles and joints, and a perplexing sense of heaviness and anxiety boring into our souls, then we cannot achieve any goal. We will have difficulty persisting like this now.

To be able to take life advice for the better, we must first know how to be better. How to feel good and how to feel alive. One of the best ways is to recall the times we did feel alive and be grateful for all the positive things in our…

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Aimée Sparrow
Aimée Sparrow

Written by Aimée Sparrow

An explorer of the philosophy behind psychology and what we dream to inspire peace and solace from suffering. aimee.sparrowling@gmail.com

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