Inevitable Success

Many of my leadership coaching clients are *excellent* problem solvers.

They can anticipate challenges and proactively solve them, they can generate numerous scenarios for ways things could go sideways and think of how they would fix them, they can come up with endless solutions to still hit the goal.

This *feels* like a good use of time – you're being proactive, you're being creative, you're goal-oriented.

But – you can end up spending a lot of energy solving problems that don't exist yet – and may never exist at all. And instead of allowing ourselves to visualize what success looks like and what accomplishing our goal would actually mean for us, we've spent all of our time imagining doom, disappointment, failure.

A few years ago, I read a book that completely shifted my perspective on this – it offered a deceptively simple idea: what if we took all of these worrying skills and used them to imagine inevitable success instead?

Being good at worrying (or proactive problem solving 😉) means you excel at visualization. Except you're visualizing (all of) the wrong outcomes. So what if we visualized what success looks like instead?

(Hint – Most people are so focused on avoiding negative outcomes that they haven't really thought through what success actually looks like. )

It's a big mindset shift, but one that can reap enormous dividends.

Where can you start playing with this idea? What could inevitable success look like?