When we step forward on our THPL journey we do it mostly with our goals and dreams identified. We work towards them along the journey and we make progress in towards out goals every day. There are some moments, though, when it is not entirely clear if the path we are following will get us to our goal. Maybe it is a lack of experience, maybe we are lacking proper feedback, regardless of the reason there will be times when we need to pause and look for different techniques to help us move forward. One approach that we can try is a “look back” approach. With this approach, we first take ourselves forward to the time when we have achieved our goal and then we think about what it is that would get us there. This introspection can trigger actions that we should take now to get us to our goal. There is a subtle difference between looking forward and looking back and what we learn is that to get to high performance we need to use both. The path forward can always be found it just might take a bit more effort.

Loving life when I take the time to look back