<p><img decoding="async" class="alignleft" alt="Tom Terwilliger - motivational speaker and author" title="Tom Terwilliger - speaker and author" src="http://www.getmotivation.com/images/speakers_images/Tom-Terwilliger-12.png" />Like the achievement of any worthwhile goal or objective your ability to tap into your potential as a leader will likely be met with a few hurdles and obstacles. Successfully navigating those obstacles will ultimately mean the difference between success and failure, frustration and celebration.</p>
<p>A man who knows a thing or two about getting over difficult hurdles is legendary Olympic Gold Medalist Edwin Moses who when asked about tapping into potential was quoted as saying “Lots of people just let it go by… and never accomplish what they want.” <span class="post-teaser-more"><br /><br />&nbsp;=>> <a href="https://www.getmotivation.com/motivationblog/2012/09/committing-bigger-than-your-obstacles-by-tom-terwilliger/" title="Permanent Link: Committing BIGGER Than Your Obstacles By Tom Terwilliger" rel="bookmark">Click to read the full article...</a> <i></span></p>{"id":1639,"date":"2012-09-14T22:52:58","date_gmt":"2012-09-15T03:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/?p=1639"},"modified":"2012-09-14T22:52:58","modified_gmt":"2012-09-15T03:52:58","slug":"committing-bigger-than-your-obstacles-by-tom-terwilliger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2012\/09\/committing-bigger-than-your-obstacles-by-tom-terwilliger\/","title":{"rendered":"Committing BIGGER Than Your Obstacles By Tom Terwilliger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"Tom Terwilliger - motivational speaker and author\" title=\"Tom Terwilliger - speaker and author\" src=\"http:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/images\/speakers_images\/Tom-Terwilliger-12.png\" \/>Like the achievement of any worthwhile goal or objective your ability to tap into your potential as a leader will likely be met with a few hurdles and obstacles. Successfully navigating those obstacles will ultimately mean the difference between success and failure, frustration and celebration.<\/p>\n<p>A man who knows a thing or two about getting over difficult hurdles is legendary Olympic Gold Medalist Edwin Moses who when asked about tapping into potential was quoted as saying \u201cLots of people just let it go by\u2026 and never accomplish what they want.\u201d <span class=\"post-teaser-more\"><br \/><br \/>&nbsp;=>> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2012\/09\/committing-bigger-than-your-obstacles-by-tom-terwilliger\/\" title=\"Permanent Link: Committing BIGGER Than Your Obstacles By Tom Terwilliger\" rel=\"bookmark\">Click to read the full article...<\/a> <i><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}