Hi Reader,

I’ve been thinking about Chutes & Ladders lately.

Remember that game we played as kids?

You’d climb the ladders, getting closer and closer to the top…

Then you’d land on a chute that hurls you back toward the bottom…often right when you’re about to win. :(

Life can feel like that sometimes.

You work hard.

You climb.

You finally start getting somewhere.

And then…

Chute!
​(That’s the PG version of what most of us say in those situations.)

Back down, sometimes almost to the beginning.

I’ve lived that.

And the hardest part wasn’t the setback.

It was not knowing why I kept ending up there.

• Was I taking the wrong actions?
• Was I missing something?
• Was I not good enough to get where I wanted to go?
• Or was there something underneath that I couldn’t see?

After nearly four decades of doing this work, I’ve come to believe the answer often isn’t more motivation, discipline, or effort.

It’s usually a hidden parking brake set within us that we didn’t even know was there.

And if you don’t know the brake is on, you can spend an awful lot of energy pressing harder on the gas and still not go anyway.

That’s what got me thinking about The RESET.

I’ve brought together three of my programs around one simple idea:

The RESET takes you through three stages:

STUCK → STEADY → MOVING

If you’ve been working hard but keep finding yourself back at the same place…there may be something more useful to look at than simply trying harder.

​LEARN MORE ABOUT THE RESET →

If that idea hits home, take a look.

You may recognize something you’ve been experiencing for years.

:) Tim Shurr

P.S. Sometimes the answer isn’t a bigger engine. Just release the brakes and avoid the next chute…