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Does your next step up have a downside?

By Diana Gardner Robinson Leave a Comment

It is much easier for most of us to keep our balance on a flat surface than on a slope but we don’t get to climb that way. Today I am not writing about fear of falling physically but about the need to be aware of the slippery slopes that we may encounter when we are trying to make positive changes via small steps along upward slopes.

I know that many of my readers are entrepreneurs, for whom slopes, both up and down, are almost the norm. However, unless we are on a plateau, which is rarely desirable for any length of time, most of us, entrepreneurs or not, are on slopes one way or another, particularly those of us who are developing – or changing – some aspect of our lives.

A major problem can arise when we decide to do “more of” in one area of life because, given that we all have the same 24 hours in a day, doing more usually involves doing less of something else. That in itself involves a balancing act. The more shallow the slope – and so the smaller the change – the less likely it is that we will even consider the effect of the “less” as we glory in the positive aspects of the “more.” However, small positive changes often become incremental – both the “more of” and the “less of.”

(This is the beginning of my most recent newsletter, “Work in Progress (Because we all are!),” If you would like to receive this issue in its entirety, please subscribe at the “envelope and pencil” form to the right of this page.)

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Filed Under: Personal growth, Stumbling & Stepping, Work situations

About Diana Gardner Robinson

Coach Diana Gardner Robinson (Ph.D.) has been coaching, teaching and counseling for more than 20 years. She understands problems, she understands people, and she offers you a 30-40 minute phone coaching call focused totally on YOU, with ZERO sales pitch. Use the Contact page to reach her and schedule an appointment.
Originally from England, and with a doctorate in Social Psychology, Diana has an understanding of the many dilemmas that people experience, and is highly skilled at helping her clients to resolve issues and blocks that had been holding them back from being who they really want to be.

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