Sharing is a much better way to communicate than proving. Yo Yo Ma.

Like a pair of giant knitting needles, globalization and the social media platforms have knitted us together, like it or not.

Whether we are in Toronto, Toledo or Timbuktu, we are living in a giant global village – interconnected, interdependent, challenging us to open our hearts and broaden our world view.

Generally speaking, a view world is a set of expectations and biases we have formed that shapes how we see and feel about people in other nations and, indeed, even in our own cities and neighbourhoods – each of them with their own world view, different from ours.

Accommodation isn’t always easy but as distances and time continue to shrink, it is good to remember that most of us, regardless of where we stand on the globe, are just trying to get through the day, striving to stay alive, better our conditions, to do the best by our families and those for whom we care.

We are all in this together. We are not the same, of course. Our cultures, religions, educational backgrounds societal differences can make strangers of us – but only if we let them.

The songs we sing, the stories we tell in sound and words can sound foreign, even scary, to others. Still, as the world gets smaller, we need to step up our collective effort to make the effort to narrow the gap, remembering that a stranger is only a person whose story or song we have never heard, if only we’d listen.

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Are you a doer, always up for challenges, looking for what’s next?

You are not alone. There is an ever growing cohort of people who, having completed a successful run, are on the hunt for “what’s next” in their lives,

Comfortable but not satisfied. Reasonably content with their life/business/career situation but sensing there is still more out there for them, they want to step up their game.

Some are bored to death, fearful of growing stale and irrelevant.

A growing number of brave souls are seriously thinking about a complete rewrite.

The central issue in all of the above is the need to keep on growing. We all need to grow. It is as necessary as breathing. It is part of humankind’s DNA. We are hard-wired to be curious and to always be hungry for more.

Why is that? It is because that whatever the new goal or aspiration, it isn’t so much the goal itself but the action of striving, the challenge that lies at the heart of the growing process.

The act of striving is a creative, challenging activity. It’s what keeps you interested, interesting and totally engaged. No matter what the environment in which you find yourself, it is always possible to maintain your integrity.

Get active again. Retain responsibility. Work harder, if you must, for the things you believe in. If you don’t you are surrendering your future to others. Don’t let that happen.

You know what to do. Just get out there and get on to what’s next!

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The future is called ‘perhaps,’ which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you. Tennessee Williams.

Have you found your interest in what you are doing wavering? Are you bored to death with the familiar and the status quo? You know…. been there, done that. Now what?

You are not alone. The winds of change are blowing up a storm. Everything has changed. Nothing appears to be what it used to be and, in this challenging environment, yesterday’s victories have no currency. Could it be that you have stopped growing?

If you would like things to stay as they are, you are going to have to make some changes and start growing again. And that means being willing to let go of the familiar.

Letting go of the familiar is never easy and sometimes inconvenient, but it is the only way to grow.

You’ve come this far. There is no reason why you can’t go on to what’s next. It isn’t enough to have learned something. Knowledge is of no value unless you put what you have learned into it into practice – and do the most good with it – that counts.

Life is a high-wire act. It can be scary and there are no guarantees.

So, as you begin another week, if you have been doing some serious thinking about your life and where you are on your journey, here’s a question for you:

Is what you are doing today moving you towards or away from the future you see for yourself?

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The roller coaster is my life; life is a fast, dizzying game, life is a parachute jump; it’s taking chances, falling over and getting up again; it’s mountaineering; it’s wanting to get to very top of yourself and to feel angry and dissatisfied when you don’t manage. Paulo Coelho.

Life goes on… and it is too short and too precious to wake up with regret and misgivings. If there is something sticking to your soul, stick with it.

Love the people who treat you right and forget about the ones who don’t. Don’t listen to the cynics, the doubters and nay sayers. Fly with the eagles. Not with the ducks.  Be with the fearless ones, not with the nervous nellies.

Everything happens for a reason. Accept and learn from the lessons that life teaches you everyday and just keep on trucking. Nobody said that life is easy. They just promised that if you took control of your life and did what you thought you were here to do, it would be worth it.

What they didn’t say was that it takes a lifetime to build a life.

And what else they didn’t tell you is that as you move along, as one door closes behind you, another will open up…. but there will be times when it’s hell in the hallways!

Need to grow some more and get going? Let’s chat about it. I’ll show you how. Text/call me 416.450.8867 or email drew@drewsimmie.com. Follow me on Twitter.

The roller coaster is my life; life is a fast, dizzying game; life is a parachute jump: it’s taking chances, falling over and getting up again; it’s mountaineering, it’s wanting to the very top of yourself and to feel angry and dissatisfied when you don’t manage. Paulo Coelho. 

Along life’s path, at one time or another, for any number of reasons, we all face barriers, challenges and fears of one kind or another. Today, of course, Covid-19 has brought everything to halt, forced each of us to examine our lives and what we’re doing with the time we have been given.

Many of are looking for new ways to improve their current situation and step up their performance. Others, unhappy with their current prospects, find themselves forced into transition, searching for another path forward.

Change is the new currency.  

We’re in an era where the winners are coming from the ranks of those willing to creatively step out in front of the crowd.

To continue to grow your current business or start out in a different direction, in the Covid-19 pandemic, you’ve got to be open to change and be absolutely clear about who you are what you’re all about.

But whatever is next, as you continue to press forward, if you’re up for it, the future is there for the taking.

You are either in or you are out.