Bin day and obstacles

Rocky had to stop and sniff nearly every bin on our route today! Big obstacles when you're trying to run and it's literally freezing! Life is full of obstacles we can on the whole (not always I know) choose which ones we pass and which ones we get stuck at. Sometimes they're physical such as bins in the way, restrictions in covid, money and sometimes obstacles are psychological such as fear, guilt, shame etc. I was scared about doing a 1000 miles run and could have easily talked myself out of it, 'I'll make a fool of myself, my knees won't take it, I cant do it, what if I fail?' Then I talked to my family who said 'course you can do it, just do it.' That made all the difference, fear was there but manageable and I did just what I wanted to do, I just did it. But how our minds put obstacles in the way and hinder us from doing things we could achieve. We can do much if we just let go of fear!