{"id":1943,"date":"2023-01-23T00:27:25","date_gmt":"2023-01-23T00:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/binarywords.com\/?p=1943"},"modified":"2023-08-20T23:03:52","modified_gmt":"2023-08-20T22:03:52","slug":"frases-intraducibles-getting-out-of-your-own-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/binarywords.com\/en\/2023\/01\/23\/frases-intraducibles-getting-out-of-your-own-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Untranslatable sentences: getting out of your own way"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today we\u00b4re talking about another one of those expressions in English that I love, and that I think lose their charm when translated into Spanish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u00b4s \"getting out of your own way\", which basically means stop being an obstacle in your own path. When I hear it, I imagine a path in front of me, with a gigantic boulder in the middle of it, blocking the way... And I realize that, very often, I\u00b4m the one placing that boulder there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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OK, it\u00b4s not always a gigantic boulder, sometimes it\u00b4s a smaller rock... But the thing is that I do it, I sabotage myself, and that\u00b4s something that happens quite frequently to us as humans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today my daughter Eva, who\u00b4s reading the Harry Potter books, mentioned Dobby, the house elf. If you remember, every time Dobby realized he had done something against the rules, even if it was with the best intentions, he said \"bad Dobby!\" and tried to injure himself, doing things like banging his head against a wall, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, I get the feeling that we humans do something similar sometimes, unconsciously of course. Our rational side establishes a goal or objective and wants to make progress in that direction, but it finds itself hindered (and sometimes, sabotaged) by an ever deeper side of ourselves, which somehow believes that achieving that goal would be against how things should be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, when we realize we\u00b4re finding it difficult to get closer to our goal, and we\u00b4re taking one step forward and two steps back, it\u00b4s time to start digging to see what\u00b4s hidden below that self-sabotage: there may be beliefs, values, or even aspects of our own identity that are in conflict with whatever it is that we want to achieve. And that\u00b4s where a coaching process can help a lot, in order to shine the light on those \"hidden forces\" that make us get in the way of our own success.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What about you? How are you getting in your own way, blocking your own path? And what would it take to remove those blockers?<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hoy toca hablar de otra de esas expresiones que me encantan en ingl\u00e9s y que creo que pierden la gracia al traducirlas al espa\u00f1ol. Se trata de \u00abgetting out of your own way\u00bb, que b\u00e1sicamente quiere decir dejar de estorbarte a ti mismo, en el sentido de dejar de ser un obst\u00e1culo en tu propio … Continue reading Untranslatable sentences: getting out of your own way<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":3116429,"featured_media":1944,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"BinaryWords - Frases intraducibles: getting out of your own way \/ Untranslatable sentences: getting out of your own way","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"\u00a1Quita de enmedio! \/ Out of my way!","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5106,5145,5001],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coaching","category-intraducibles","category-palabras-words","fallback-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3DPtR-vl","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8132,"url":"https:\/\/binarywords.com\/en\/2025\/11\/10\/expresiones-intraducibles-do-your-best\/","url_meta":{"origin":1943,"position":0},"title":"Untranslatable expressions: do your best","author":"binarybea","date":"10\/11\/2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Hoy os traigo una expresi\u00f3n en ingl\u00e9s que no es que sea exactamente intraducible, pero que al traducirla al espa\u00f1ol me parece como que pierde un poco de fuerza, y resulta menos impactante: Do your best. 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