Overcoming obstacles — Word

Based in Chicago, Omerisms is a blog by Omer Abdullah. His posts explore Ideas, perspectives and points of view across business, sales, marketing, life and (sometimes) football (the real kind).

All tagged Overcoming obstacles

Dec 19

Dec 19 A World Cup Legend

Aspirations, Careers, Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Life, Personal Codes

If you’re at all into football (soccer), you’ll no doubt have watched the World Cup Final yesterday.

It was, in my view, the greatest world cup final in history - with goals, drama, late comebacks and ultimately, penalties. Argentina were amazing winners and, of course, as everyone’s talking about, Lionel Messi got his World Cup, rounding out one of the most storied careers in the history of the sport.

Nov 26

Nov 26 Just Focus On What's Next

Omer Abdullah

Aspirations, Careers, Creativity, Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Life, Marketing, Personal Codes, Strategy, Teams

Sometimes, the goals we set for ourselves are overwhelming. The bigger the goal or the more challenging the objective, the harder it can be to fathom how we will get there.

We get caught up in the sheer scale of our idea, or we start setting all sorts of impossible timelines and expectations that we think we need to achieve on our path there.