Early this year in this newsletter I wrote about the four common pitfalls we face when trying to get things done:
- We get stuck in the status quo.
- We try to do too many things at once.
- We may not be systematic about our goals.
- We fail to achieve our goals because we aren’t realistic.
In today’s newsletter I want to give you more context about the first pitfall and provide you with strategies and tools to practice to avoid it.
The status quo is powerful. People feel comfortable in it. People are benefiting from it. People are invested in it.
It is much easier to keep doing things the way they have always been done than to change. But you have to do things differently if you want to get things done. You have to change the order of things for the better if you want to lead.
So how do you overcome the power of the status quo?