I think we've all talked to somebody that have said to us, look, the simple answer is

try harder.

I remember reading a wonderful book called Use Square many years ago by Price Pritchett

and the opening of the book tells this story of him sitting in this like quite little place,

an hour outside of Toronto and he said, I'm sitting there in this room and I'm listening

to the futile attempt of this little fly trying hard to get through the window pane.

And if you recognize just that moment because we've all seen it before in our lives, that

you know, the effort, the intensity, the passion, the, I'm going to make it happen over

and over again, banging into that windowsill.

It really is the strategy that most people attempt when in many cases, if we really want

to create a breakthrough, we've got to stop and look around and see what the other options

are.

You see, sometimes trying harder isn't the right approach, especially if what you're

doing isn't working.

Sometimes the most important thing to do is to stop, take a breather and ask yourself knowing

what I know now, what should I do or just getting some input from other people and saying, hey,

you've been watching me, you've been observing how I'm operating in my life and in my business.

What do you see that I'm doing that's working?

What do you see that I'm doing that maybe isn't working?

And oftentimes when you are vulnerable enough to ask questions like that from people that

absolutely love and respect you and are willing to tell you the truth, that's where

oftentimes the biggest breakthroughs come from.

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