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The Line I Keep Coming Back To

Believing is seeing.

Your record is real. I’m not telling you to ignore it. But your record is also just a history of what you’ve done so far — it was never a ceiling on what you’re capable of becoming.

Somewhere right now, there’s a version of you, your team, or your organization that has no statistical right to exist yet. No proof. No track record. Nothing but a decision, made before the evidence arrives, to become something the past three years didn’t predict.

Where are you waiting for proof before you’re willing to believe?

That’s usually exactly backwards.