The Man Who Moves A Mountain…

Sometimes our tasks feel too heavy to handle. Whether we’re facing a huge goal or something as simple as getting out of bed, our mindset can create massive obstacles that feel too big to bypass. Here’s how I shift the seemingly immovable…

THERE’S an old Confucius saying: “The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.” It’s easy to see it as a throwaway fortune cookie proverb but, if you just pause and think about it for a moment, those 12 words carry immense power.

Whether we’re allocating the wisdom of those words to goal-setting, building a personal brand, growing a tribe of clients and advocates in business, or simply towards shifting our mood, we can always benefit from clearing away some of the smaller blocks before moving to the boulders.

Sometimes, I think our obsession with having some huge ‘why’ to drive us creates more problems than it solves. It’s not the idea of understanding our mission, our reason for being, that’s the issue. What’s tripping us up is the pressure so many people feel under to ‘know’ their ‘why’.

It’s become the modern-day western equivalent of waving a fat, leather Filofax around in the 80s. The ‘why’ has…