I am something of a success literature junky. Ever since reading Napolian Hill’s “Thing and Grow Rich” in college, I have bought book after book on how to succeed. Some of those were specific, like how to sell, how to manage, how to market. Others were more generaly, about following your own dreams and making them reality. The result is that I have a couple of large bookshelves full of those books.

I have largely stopped buying them over the past few years. Not that I don’t like them or think they are ineffective but because, over the Pandemic as I re-read a lot of them, I came to the realization that most of them say the same thing.

Oh, they use different terms. But look beyond the buzzwords and most of them lay out very similar plans to reach your dreams. In a large part, they follow the very simple path in the picture at the top of this article. All of them, the same basic path. So then, we know how to get there, why don’t we all reach our goals and dreams?

I have been a coach and consultant since 2011. I work with individuals and companies. A high percentage of my clients have gone the same route, they bought books. Or took a few seminars. Some of them even invested in coaches and consultants to move them forward, but they never quite got there. What went wrong.

A few years ago, I kind of figured it out. Because everyone who failed shared similar stories. They began the work, then somewhere along the way ran into something that was hard for them. Not physically hard. And not even technically hard. You can learn anything after all. We all can.

No, what happened, when we looked at it closely, is that they would hit something that was emotionally/spiritually hard. Something that felt uncomfortable. In some cases they plowed through, but then it happened again, and finally became to much. They just stopped.

I call those things that made people unconfortable “roadblocks”. And they are almost spiritual in the sense of they tear down our own spirits. “What if,” I wondered “We worked on the spirit first to level out those roadblocks? Would it make the path to success easier and less painful?”

The answer is yes. I have seen it time and time again.

Knowing this fact has transformed my coaching and consulting practivce. I learn about and work with my clients’ spirits FIRST. And then work them through the other, proven steps to success. With remarkable success.

I am currently working on a new set of online classes that will take people through the process I take my coaching clients with. But in the meanwhile, as you look at your own path, think about it and see if I am right. If I am, consider my course, or at the very least, rethink the work you are doing, and focus FIRST on the roadblocks. It is the missing link in the path to reaching your dreams.

Be well, Travel wisely

Tom

PS: If you want to see a preview of what classes will be in the course, click here. The classes are not operative yet, but you can see the path, and if you want, sign up to get notices when I release each class.