Ladders, Mountains, and Stairs
/BY: COACH LAINE SCHMIDT
Ladders, mountains, and stairs, oh my! This is not a song or a silly dad joke.
This is what you'll find if you Google the word "success" and you look up Google Images. You'll find images of ladders and mountains and stairs.
What's interesting about the mind is that it thinks in pictures, not in letters. If you think of the word success, you don't think of the letters that spell out the word, you think of an image.
When you think of the word success you probably think of ladders, mountains and stairs or some other kind of visual that the world has splattered into our minds.
When you think of the phrase "my definition of success" what image comes to your mind? If you could take a snapshot of that image and post it on Google Images, what would we find?
Why is this important? Because it's our home base. If we have this visual, this image of what our definition of success looks like, we should print it out or draw it out or have someone paint it and keep it in front of us all the time, because the decisions we make should always be informed by that picture.
It's our home base. It's why we do what we do.
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