Doing What I Said I Would Do

Defining Success

Working with my clients using the ACE coaching model, we employ a specific definition of success: doing what you said you would do, consistently, with clarity, focus, ease and grace. Each piece of this definition is important (and perhaps worthy of its own newsletter), but none more than “doing what you said you would do.” What I love most about this definition is that it requires you to say what you’re going to do in order to succeed. 

Success is making and fulfilling a promise to yourself. By articulating what it is that you’re going to do, you create a useful tension that will only be resolved by you taking that action. I experience that tension as voices chattering in my head reminding me I haven’t done it, rationalizing why I haven’t done it, questioning whether it’s even worth doing in the first place.

When this chatter arrives the most useful place to focus my attention is: am I willing to do what I said I would do?

Well, here I go!

I told many of you that I would use this mailing list to share photos from my road trip and (after a couple of weeks listening to the chatter) I’m doing it. I’ve compiled scans of the seven rolls of film I shot and labeled their locations in this slideshow. The abbreviated version above is a few of my favorites.

I hope you enjoy!