The Obstacle Is The Way Medallion

 “The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.” —Marcus Aurelius The inspiration for the international bestseller The Obstacle Is the Way by Ryan Holiday—that line, plucked from the pages of Marcus Aurelius’s private Meditations from nearly 2,000 years ago, is a timeless, life-changing lesson. Now, with our newest medallion, you can carry this powerful truth with you wherever you go. The world is constantly testing us. We set out to do something and it’s more trying than we expect. We face resistance. We get criticized. We run out of options. We experience technical difficulties. What will we do? Marcus would say that the Stoic finds a way to turn every negative into a positive. In this famous line, what he’s suggesting is that—no matter how bad or seemingly undesirable a situation becomes—we always have the opportunity to practice virtue, to use the situation as an opportunity to be our best selves. We don’t control when things get hard, but we al