I spend most of my client days helping people erase rather than add.
For example, a husband starts a conversation certain he needs a new skill, a better way to argue, a smarter thing to say.
In reality, what he usually needs is to let go of the old identity he's been dragging into every conversation, the version of himself that had to be right, or had to win, or had to prove something that stopped mattering years ago.
I like the whiteboard image and I think it is exactly right.
Growth doesn't look like a fuller board. It looks like a man who finally has the judgment to know what he can put down.
I ask my clients some version of your question all the time, just aimed at a different kind of accumulation.
What are you still carrying that experience has already told you to let go of?
Thanks for writing this and have a great long weekend.
Hey JP,
I spend most of my client days helping people erase rather than add.
For example, a husband starts a conversation certain he needs a new skill, a better way to argue, a smarter thing to say.
In reality, what he usually needs is to let go of the old identity he's been dragging into every conversation, the version of himself that had to be right, or had to win, or had to prove something that stopped mattering years ago.
I like the whiteboard image and I think it is exactly right.
Growth doesn't look like a fuller board. It looks like a man who finally has the judgment to know what he can put down.
I ask my clients some version of your question all the time, just aimed at a different kind of accumulation.
What are you still carrying that experience has already told you to let go of?
Thanks for writing this and have a great long weekend.