This past week on the Business with Bordeaux Podcast I had special guest Kelly Cole on to share a ton of wisdom including a lesson he taught his son about a ten dollar roadblock. Kelly Cole has invested a lot of time and money into his son’s music career. They have worked hard in making music, performing, and getting music out there. One day Aaron told his father that rapper, Da T.R.U.T.H was holding a contest and he wanted to enter and his father told him to go ahead and do it. A few days later Kelly asked Aaron how it went and Aaron responded by saying he didn’t submit anything because he didn’t have ten dollars to pre-order the album which was one of the prerequisites for entering the contest. Kelly then had a discussion about not letting something as small as a ten dollar obstacle stop him from achieving his goal.
I feel like many times we have a small ten dollar obstacle that we let stop us from progressing to the next step. It can be triggered by fear. There is fear of the next step, fear of the unknown, and for some there can be a fear of winning. We should always be ready to face the ten dollar obstacle. Don’t push so hard for a little stumbling block to hold you back. It is perfectly fine to ask for a little help every now and then. Many would be happy to help you with a stumbling block. Some people have pushed through so many roadblocks that when they encounter a small one they finally just quit. You have to remember this, if it were easy, everyone would do it.
