📌 Question From Another Community
In another community, John Lewis asked us to take 45 seconds and answer these three questions: 1. Looking back at 2025: What are three outcomes you are genuinely grateful for? Not titles. Not projects. Not intentions. Numbers. Progress. Evidence that something moved. 2. Looking ahead to 2026: What is your North Star? The one outcome that, if achieved, would change how you see your business and yourself. 3. Looking inward: What is the one habit, bottleneck, KPI, or avoidance pattern that is quietly holding you back? The thing you already know you need to confront. What follows is my answer: @John Lewis This is deep. And a big ask. To do it right will take more than 45 seconds, however I see it as being entirely worth while. I am at a watershed moment in my own life so I am going to fully embrace your call. Yours are strong questions; and they are strong precisely because they resist abstraction. The right direction here is not to answer them quickly, but to answer them cleanly. Here is my attempt: I. Looking Back at 2025 Three outcomes I am genuinely grateful for; evidence that something moved: 1) I shifted from accumulation to clarity. Evidence: I stopped trying to carry everything at once and began deliberately simplifying; my thinking, my messaging, my offers, and my role. This is measurable not in volume, but in reduction: • Fewer ideas competing for attention • Fewer unfinished directions • Clearer language for what I actually do That is movement from diffusion to coherence, and it is real progress. 2) I articulated my true value without apology. Evidence: I moved from "I help with many things," to "I restore clarity so people can move forward." I now have: • A named philosophy • A clear, humane offer I have embraced new language that fits my experience rather than borrowing authority. This is not branding; or even re-branding. It is self-trust taking form. 3) I took visible action despite lingering self-doubt. Evidence: I created. I published. I posted. I opened new offers. I engaged in real conversations. Not someday. Not later. I acted now while still being uncertain; exactly as I will be asking my clients to do. And I sincerely believe that is one of the clearest markers of genuine progress there is.