Goal Achievement Strategies

You Need To Pass The Point Of No Return

Crossing the Rubicon. Burning Bridges. Point of No Return. These are metaphors which all mean the same thing…a transformative event occurred which in turn triggered a life-changing decision to abandon the life we once knew, and move ahead into an unknown and unfamiliar realm of experience.

For most of my adult life I’ve pursued what I consider to be the organizing principles of lasting change…and have come to the understanding that there is a pivotal moment in all of our lives (actually a series of moments) that we must experience before we wake up, take control, turn pro and achieve our goals.

These pivotal moments transform the feeling of what it means to be fully alive.

In the song “The Point of No Return” from The Phantom of the Opera, the metaphor of a burning bridge is used to describe the completion of a transition between two different phases of life such as transitioning from being a boy to a man…from a girl to a women…and from amateur to a professional.

Fire symbolizes an irrevocable change in our course of life. And as we turn back, we see a familiar way of life that is no longer possible or desirable.

Have you burned any bridges lately…have you drawn a psychological line in the sand and passed the point of no return?

Have you grown up and made the decision to turn pro, or are you hiding, pretending and living life as a child…like Michael Jackson with a Peter Pan complex?

Here’s the truth…we’re amateurs or professionals in every role we play…

Parent

Spouse

Friend

Entrepreneur

Manager

Teacher

Student

Doctor

Writer

Speaker

Artist

Singer

Athlete

And, we will only turn pro in any of these roles by reaching the point of no return in our own behaviors and burning the necessary bridges.

Bonus: How to Unleash a Performance Explosion!

For the remainder of this message, we’re going to focus our attention on the behavioral bridges which need to be burned…thus making it an impossibility of returning to the life and amateur ways we once knew.

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