In today's episode, Anna looks at what happens when your ladder is leaning against the wrong wall and all that climbing ends up being a frustrating waste of time...
"If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster." - Stephen Covey This is a quote that I came across, and it's variably attributed in its different versions to Stephen Covey, the legendary leadership guru who of course wrote The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Highly Effective Leaders, or the American monk, Thomas Merton. The idea is that a lot of us will spend many years, decades, climbing that ladder, working hard, trying to reach the top, only to find that if and when we do reach that top, the view isn't quite what we expected. We've climbed the wrong ladder and we're not where we want to be. And that, of course, is a pretty frustrating, regretful situation to find ourselves in…
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