Cracking the Seal...

Once you do it, you wonder what took you so long...

Have you ever stopped to consider what Rita Mae Brown meant...

Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting
different results.

Sudden Death (Bantam Books, New York, 1983), p. 68.
(Note: This same quote has also been variously attributed to Benjamin Franklin, Albert Einstein and an old Chinese proverb.)

In my experience, admitting to myself that there are things that I don't know that I don't know, allowed me to be enrollable in new ideas as potential opportunities.

After I did this once, I discovered that there is no shortage of opportunities and that I had simply not been open to seeing them before.

Unfortunately, there is no way to be certain of the value of any given opportunity. Here's where Failing Forward comes in. This is not to suggest that I recreate the wheel (I may be crazy but I'm not stupid). I'm happy to stand on the shoulders of giants. I have always been of a mind that I would apprentice to the best teachers who would have me... eventually, I became a mentor myself.

I don't make up reasons to be complacent and unhappy. I seek out opportunity. Sometimes I discover things that don't work but I don't quit.

Try on the possibility that there are things that you don't know that you don't know. What possibilities might open up for you? What would you like to open up for you? If you kept on doing what you've been doing for another 5 or 10 years would you achieve your aspirations? Will you embrace new strategies to achieve your goals?

Talk about it...

MSS