It’s time to stop waiting for someone to tell you what to do.

“Oh, I’m not waiting for a boss to give me instructions.”

Maybe not. But if you’re pouring through books and scrolling through websites … seeking answers, directions, and advice … it could be that you’ve just decentralized the boss role, outsourcing it to what’s available on the interwebs.

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Don’t stop reading.

But without the influence of books, magazines, or websites, take time to sit quietly with these two thoughts: “this is where I am now” and “this is the direction I want to go.”

Note that it’s not “this is where I am, but I’d rather be somewhere else.”

It’s accepting where we are, pointing toward where we want to go … and taking the smallest possible step in that direction. And then doing it again.