Life Coaching - Essential Knowledge For Personal coaching And Self Coaching (Abbreviated Version)

you will begin to fear boring activities more than risky ones. If you are already there, congratulations, now you know how to win the game.

The Art of Obstacle Removal One of the best ways to go faster is to remove the things that slow you down. This "obstacle removal" is an integral part of many agile methods including Scrum and Lean. Sometimes it is obvious where an obstacle is. There are a few small things that can be done easily to go faster. But to get going really fast, we need to have a deeper understanding of obstacles... and the Art of Obstacle Removal.

What are Obstacles?

An obstacle is any behavior, physical arrangement, procedure or checkpoint that makes getting work done slower without adding any actual contribution to the work. Activities that do add value to our work may be slowed down by obstacles, but are not obstacles in and of themselves.

Obstacles and Waste Obstacles are the causes of waste in a process. There are many types of waste, and for every type of waste there are many possible sources (obstacles).

Types of Obstacles Personal Personal obstacles are related to us as individuals. There are several levels at which these obstacles can show up.

Outside factors in our lives such as illness or family obligations can become obstacles to our work at hand. These obstacles are hard to remove or avoid. Even if we would want to avoid an obstacle such as illness, it is hard to do anything about it in an immediate sense.

However, as part of our commitment to the group we are working