Recently, I traded pounding the pavement for gliding through an Olympic-sized pool. The past few years I’ve been swimming hard to hit my targets.

✅ Years of effort.
✅ Plateaued four months ago.
✅ I gave it my all… mistaking effort for effectiveness

Then today, everything shifted.

There’s an expert swimmer who often swims near me.
From the pool deck, she looks like she’s swimming slow.
But in the water? She’s fast. Calm. Consistent.
No wasted movement. No struggle. Just results.

I couldn’t figure out her secret—until today…

She wasn’t gasping for air with every stroke like I was.
She took three smooth strokes, then a breath.

Just one change in technique—something I’d never even considered.

💥 Today, I dropped 20 seconds off my best time!!
Not because I tried harder.
I actually felt like I was gliding.

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Here’s the Leadership Insight:

Most executives I coach have been “swimming hard” their whole careers.
Working long hours. Hitting targets. Earning promotions.
But sacrificing their personal life, their priorities, and their joy.
Now they’re struggling to reclaim the visionary thinking that once fueled and fulfilled them.

Just like my swimming breakthrough, their biggest gains often come not from exerting more effort—but from identifying a new approach.

The very strengths that built your career may now be the blind spots that hold it back.
It’s not about grinding harder.
It’s about going deep to identify and solve the real challenges.

The best leaders stop and ask:

🔵 What’s the real challenge I’m facing?
🔵 What are the deeper issues?
🔵 How can I gain the perspective to see it clearly?

You don’t need more grit.
You need clearer perspective.

Curious what your version of a breakthrough might be?

👉 Let’s explore — Message me.