Setting your vision for a new life or career is mission critical and often quite hard to do.
Yet, even when the vision is clear, actually making substantial progress is somewhat tricky, often because people lack the skills of mental and emotional funambulism – or tightrope walking.
I’ve found this in my own life and career. Get an exciting vision, get all revved up and taking action, yet somehow, the old life, the old way of being, keeps you anchored to yesterday.
Thus, the analogy that helps is thinking of the old and the new life on different platforms, and between them stretches a tightrope. Your task is to move from the old life to the new life without falling off the rope.
That takes confidence, to put one foot out onto the rope, the route to your new life. it also requires that you take the second foot off the platform of your old life. You cannot get to the other platform without walking across the rope. So many people get stuck with their second foot planted firmly and safely in the old life.
Maximum progress is made when you are 100% committed to the journey. Get the first foot out there. Take a deep breath and then move, you’re off. As you start to walk you realise you cannot easily return. Turning round on a tightrope is likely to be messy. Standing still is also likely to end in disaster. So once you move your second foot onto the rope, you have to keep going towards your chosen destination, your new life.
And certainly, what I have found, is that once I take the decision to take my second foot off the old platform, the journey is far easier and quicker than I’d previous imagined.
So, if you are wavering or making little progress:-
- Recognise your position with one foot stuck in the old life.
- Reflect on the thinking and feeling that is holding you back. Justified or not?
- Take action, if necessary, to correct your thinking and feeling.
- Do what you can to build confidence and enough action ideas to get you out onto the rope.
- Bolster your vision of life on the other platform.
- Remind yourself that once you get going, it’ll get easier.
- Make a firm decision to shoot for it, and GO!
Now, what are you waiting for?
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Colin Gautrey
Provocative Coach/Mentor | Specialism: Impact and Influence
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