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Breaking the Holding Pattern - Moving Forward on Your Path
Planning the future in spans of 6-12 months requires deciding with certainty what paths to follow.
The present is most valuable when its events are the results of past planning. Knowing not only where we are currently, but where we should be, sets an internal pace, and an objective measure of progress along our path.
Even in writing this, I stumble over words and concepts I know to be almost universally true. Why? Because their truth is uncomfortable, and as such, they are shown to be all the more timely and important for me.
Some of us, myself included, have tried to avoid planning for fear of missing some larger but hitherto unknown opportunity. We must realize however, that the negative effects of continued stagnant procrastination, a self-glorified, self-righteous, self-justified holding pattern we daren’t break, wastes away our precious time and focus.
While those action-oriented individuals spend their time continuously planning, executing, processing input from successes and failures, and repeating, those in the eternal holding pattern gain zero units of real world experience. This withdrawal from reality into an unproductive feedback loop is where many of us find ourselves today.
So now, what is the first action?
It seems that I must repeat the most boring, generic, cliche advice that all of us claim to know, but few actually rise to act upon - brainstorm and write out goals, now!
Work backwards from these to the present, and take immediate action.
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