Slay Your Dragons (But Keep the Fire)

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“I have my own hangups, and whether I succeed or fail will likely depend on if I can get past them.”

This was said by a client a few years ago, and I will never forget it. Mostly because he wasn’t in such a bad spot to begin with. He was already running a company worth a couple hundred million dollars…but success is a different mark for everyone, and true scale is one heck of a beast. 

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We’ll all reach points that will challenge us. No matter who you are, or at what level, you’ll feel when you hit walls of sorts—and those walls stem from issues that are hard to untangle. It’s not the skills, or you would have already solved them (at least this guy would have). At certain levels, you’ll be able to teach yourself whatever you need to know, but these walls are from internal things, and—much like you’d bring in an engineer to solve a problem with your code—some folks bring in people like me to solve more human challenges proactively. 

Maybe you’re one of those people who is periodically holding yourself back in ways that are hard to put your finger on—in ways you already know to be true. The trick is to slay your dragons without snuffing out the fire. You can’t suppress the flame, and you have to leave in the good stuff to keep it fed. Let’s jump into how to start doing this. Brass tacks, and no fluff.