Did you ever feel like you’re spinning your wheels and not getting anywhere? You’re putting in time and effort but not making progress towards your goals?
Of course. We’ve all been there at some point in our life. Probably more than once.
What happened? What did you do to move forward?
Did you improve your knowledge or skills? Get some advice or help from someone with more experience? Work harder or invest more capital?
Maybe you did. Or maybe you just gave it more time and eventually figured things out.
Some would say that continuing to do the same things over and over again and expecting different results is the definition of insanity.
I don’t buy it.
For one thing, the more you work–let’s say at your legal career–the more opportunities you have to “get lucky”.
To meet the one client or business connection that becomes a turning point for you. Or to win that one case that provides you with enough capital and confidence to take you to a higher level.
These things happen. Hang around long enough and they can happen for you.
But there’s something else going on.
As you continue to work, whether you see it happening or not, you continue to learn and improve your skills. Every time you do what you do you get feedback that allows you to make small changes.
Those changes might be as minuscule as using a few different words when meeting someone or changing the order in which you deliver a presentation or a closing argument.
Tiny things that don’t seem to matter. Tiny things you don’t know you’re doing.
Those tiny things combine with other tiny things, compound, and eventually change you. As you change, so do your results.
So, take some classes or get some help if you want to. Or, keep riding the painted pony and let those
Either way, you can get where you want to go.
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