If you have struggled with achieving your goals in the past, one of the reasons might be the obstacles you experienced. Barriers are events that happen in life or factors out of your control that stop you in your tracks and prevent you from traveling forward. Sometimes, these can be small events; sometimes, they are so large that they seem unmanageable. Here are five simple ways that you can overcome barriers. 

1. Take a different direction. When there is a stumbling block in your path, try to take a different direction, through the metaphorical woods, for example. In other words, if you face a barrier in your path and do not see any way to move forward, try to think of a solution outside the box. Come up with something creative, and you might find a way around the barrier. 

2. Think about it from someone else’s perspective. Think about this problem of pretending to be someone else. You might think of a solution that you would never have usually. Imagine that you are someone else who has had a great deal of business success. What would they do if they were in that situation? 

3. Try to think of a way to make the barrier smaller than it currently appears. For example, you might think a problem is a huge, life-changing event that will prevent you from achieving your goals. However, if you think about it for a while, you might find it is not nearly as big as you thought. 

4. Take a break and let your subconscious mind do the work. When you have a problem to overcome that keeps you from achieving your desired success, consider forgetting about it for a while. Sometimes, your subconscious mind can do its best work by itself, and long after you have moved on to a different task, your mind might pop up with the perfect solution. 

Turn the problem to your advantage. You might think that something is a barrier keeping you from reaching your goals, but what if you could turn it around and make it work for you instead of blocking your path? When you come up with problems, think of creative ways to make them get you closer to your goals instead of stopping you.