The illusion of progress

Given that we are already halfway through the year, what if the situations you’ve been putting up with in your career persist? What if the sub-par results you’ve been accepting continue? What if the barriers that are preventing you from achieving or maintaining your big dream remain in place? What if the things you’ve been doing aren’t enough? What if the things you’re not doing are beginning to show? And the most persistent question lurking in the shadows: What if nothing changes?

Important because few traps are more seductive to artists and entrepreneurs than the illusion of progress. We check boxes, tweak websites, post on social, write/reply to emails, take calls, attend Zooms, and it feels like forward motion. But the hard truth is: busyness is not the same as progress, and motion is not the same as momentum.