This title is adapted from a book I use with clients all the time, called: “What Got You Here Won’t Get You There” by Marshall Goldsmith. The book talks about 20 characteristics we may have that hold us back from advancing in life, and how the key to moving forward is to identify accurately which of these 20 are our own blind spots, and address them. It’s a fantastic book, with a brilliant title.
Today I’m using it in a bit of a different context.
I started this blog 110 posts ago. I started it because I felt I had something to say. Every week, for a little over two years, myself or another self-leader has shared a bit of our journey towards leading ourselves with you.
Now, I feel like it’s time to listen. I haven’t run out of things to say, exactly, and yet I am becoming convinced that what I have to say can wait, and perhaps should wait.
I have been feeling this coming on for a while. yet I didn’t have the guts self-leadership to call it, and to move forward and do it.
Now is the time.
I’m stepping back from blogging, for at least the next six months.
You won’t see me here before September (Labor Day is my deadline in my mind), and I have no idea what you will see here after that.
Nothing is wrong. I’m not sick or broke or divorcing or moving. I’m not hoping to provoke people to beg me to keep writing.
I am not going to try and justify this break by saying that it’s really for the best or telling you to be happy for me or promising that you’ll be so glad I did this because in six months you won’t believe what I am going to reveal or produce. I’m simply saying it’s what I have to do right now.
I’m not scared, yet I am very curious about what will happen over the next six months. I wonder if I will miss blogging; I’m sure I will. I wonder if I will read more or less of the blogs of other people. I wonder if I will cook more, read more, watch more TV, spend more time with my family and friends. Maybe I will do less of all those things.
The website will still be up, clients will still be served, reservations for coaching slots will still be honored (you know who you are). if you have any questions about that piece, send me an e-mail or post a comment.
I will miss you.
Thank you for coming here so faithfully over the last two years, for commenting, e-mailing, linking, listening, and talking back to me. I said when I started that I wanted The MOXY Project to help people to feel known and not alone. You all have done that for me, a hundredfold.
See you later.