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Get Unstuck: Without Focus & Follow-Through, You May Be Just Spinning Your Wheels
“Once upon a time there was a chameleon. It’s owner, to keep it warm, placed it on a piece of scotch plaid. It died of exhaustion.”
– Jean Cocteau, 1919
I was at a traffic safety conference years ago and one of the speakers was a 19-year-old by the name of Darin Wood. Darin had been an outstanding hockey player until a horrific car crash had changed that two years earlier. He was in a wheelchair at the conference and will be for life.
The vehicle he was a passenger in was going 160km/hr when it went over train tracks and careened out of control. It rolled over several times and Darin was thrown through the front window, landing dozens of feet away from the car. It was a miracle he survived.
What struck me most about Darin’s presentation was his focus. He told us how, weeks after his crash, he was sent to a rehabilitation centre and the first thing he asked his doctor was: “Where’s my plan? What are my daily, weekly, and monthly goals? We need a strategy to get me out of here…because I am going to grad.”
I turned to the woman sitting next to me in the conference room and whispered, “How the heck can a…
