For the most part, we have explored the entire planet and know “about” where everything is. But you haven’t. You haven’t explored every inch of the planet. Collectively we have had, but individually? 1%? 2%? 5%? It can still be unknown to you, it can still be an adventure and it can still be a journey for you to embark on.
You can go back to where you started. You can start at the beginning. You can start where you were years ago trying to achieve the same goals. It’s not a step backward, because you’ve been through it before and know what to do move forward. It’s a reset. And it can start where you initially started from.
Follow the Followers and you will see where they get. You will most likely miss out on where you could have gone had you taken your path. But you will have gotten somewhere, maybe where you wanted to go? That’s an unknown. But leading yourself, you’ll always be where you want to be.
What is the one metric that defines you? What is the one metric that people think of when they think of you? What is the one metric you want to be known for? That metric could be anything. It’s yours to identify, yours to figure out, yours to make it your own.
Maybe you’re the defacto expert who gets called on to fix things. You probably didn’t start out wanting to be that person – it just happened. Now you’re the “Expert”—but you don’t want to be, and you’re the expert only in what you need to know to overcome the problem you’re facing. The only way to stop being the “Expert” is to bring others into the fold, involve others, write documentation, push out information, and…