Getting Off the Line

I watched some football over the last few weeks. Football makes for some great metaphors. Have you noticed that the players never stay in their three point stance for very long. Why is that? Well for one, it is somewhat difficult to do. It also makes you stiff and slower to get off the line if you hold the stance too long. I heard a speaker use the 3 point stance metaphor to talk about the need for action in order for change to acutally happen. We often get ourselves pumped for a new change effort but find ourselves hesitant to actually get started. We can change, we do have a choice. After we have identified what it is that we want to change the key is not to become frozen at the scrimmage line. We need to move. Like a football game it will mean getting back to the line and moving off again and again. Then change will happen. As we approach 2011 I hope you focus not just on what you want different but how you will get off the line again and again to make it happen. One tip - sometimes this takes someone who has a whistle or moves the ball to remind you to get off the line. You don't have to make the journey alone. Ask for a partner to remind you of the action that is needed. You may find yourself actually changing and enjoying the journey as well.