I generally take the week between Christmas and New Year’s to think about my life and work. It may look like I spend a lot of time laying around staring into space but the reality is that I am thinking hard about the past year. What went well? What would I have liked to go better? And most importantly, what am I going to do differently this year?

Differently. That’s important.

A look at my clients over the past few years has taught me something. You see most of my clients, both coaching and consulting, have made their stabs at success before they ever found me. They have done the work, taken courses, even hired other coaches and never quite got there, where ever their “there” might be.

Why? Well what I see, when I quiz them on their journey to this point is that while they have done a lot of work, they have not done a lot differently. It is as if there is a sense that if we just work harder, we’ll get there. But what if the problem is not us. What if it is the fact that the path we are on, the one we have taken time and time again because it is comfortable or “makes sense.” isn’t YOUR path? it is someone else’s?

Let me tell you, that is almost always the case.

So the question becomes, what are we going to do differently? A new approach? A different timetable? A new path? Baby steps instead of leaps? New tools? You don’t have to change everything in your life, but if you don’t want the same stagnant results; if you want to manifest real change in your life, work and businesses, something has to be done differently.

So spend some time rethinking before you relaunch your quest for success, whatever that success might be. Look at what has worked for you and moved you forward. And look at what has not. It’s never about working harder. It’s about working on the right things.

Be well. Travel wisely,

Tom

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