"You Can Only See Your Footprints Looking Back"

I love to walk barefoot on these trails and one thing I've noticed is that…

As I look behind me, I can see my footprints from where I've been,

But if I look forward, I don't see my footprints because I haven't created them yet.

I haven't stepped in those spots yet.

And it's something that becomes really important in life and business.

As Steve Jobs once said we can't connect the dots looking forward.

Only Looking Backward.

Meaning we may have ideas about where we're heading or what we're doing or how exactly we're going to get there,

But we won't actually know until we do it.

We won't actually have the stories and the map of how it's done until we figure it out and do it no matter how many times other people have done something similar or we may have done a similar type of thing.

We can't connect the dots looking forward only Looking Backward.

Can't see our Footprints looking forward only Looking Backward.

And I find that it has this paralyzing effect.

When people come to a point... they come to some kind of Crossroads where there's a decision they need to make and they're looking out ahead, looking out ahead, looking out ahead.

'Well what's it going to look like?'

'I can't move forward if I don't know what it's going to look like.’

But guess what…

You'll never know what it's going to look like.

You never know.

There is no way that anyone can predict the future about anything.

People might try... you might have educated guesses and, you know, simulations and all these other things, but you don't actually know.

Until you take the steps

Until you start walking...

Jim Rohn has a great line where he says 'if it's a foggy night and you can only see a hundred feet ahead because of the Fog.'

'The only way to see past that is to walk a hundred feet and then you can see the next hundred feet.’

And the same is true in life and business, right?

The only way to actually see the path ahead of you is to start walking it.

So start walking it and leave those Footprints behind and you have some fun stories to tell.

Talk soon...

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