The Correction Of A Decade
2010: Become the CEO of an Olympic sport organization.
2011: Lose my direction in health, perspective, and creativity.
2012: Make a single small change to my daily life routine → interrupt a negative pattern and create a new one. Repeat this new pattern every day.*
2013: Dive more deeply into transition and habit development. Ask everyone I can, “Tell me about a time you were stuck and how did you get unstuck?”
2014: Leave my CEO job and start to write Sunday Morning Joe.
2015: Say yes to unexpected adventures. Travel to Mexico to build a home for a family in need. A few months later, paddle a kayak from Cuba to Florida.
2016: My first two corporate coaching clients — General Electric and Ernst & Young — come by way of Sunday Morning Joe.
2017: Make a quality-of-life move to the Spanish state of Catalunya.
2018: On my ninth attempt, qualify for the Boston Marathon.
2019: Connect all of these experiences from the past decade with the simplicity of life in Catalunya to help more than 30 clients and myself slow down, do less, and focus on what truly matters most. (I also complete the Boston Marathon.)
I recently read an excellent book that cited a study where the majority of participants believed they would not experience as much change in the next 10 years as they experienced in the past 10 years.
A possible explanation for this? With more life experience and deeply rooted values, we believe that we are less likely to stray as far from where we find ourselves today compared to where we were in life in January of 2010.
But, the next 10 years will produce a LOT of change.
To better respond to such change — and even leverage it towards something of significant value — we must build a better practice of working with change in small steps forward every day.
* The premise of my year in 2012 continues to repeat itself every day.
With gratitude,
-Joe
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