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The best (the only) way to get ‘Back on Track’?
There’s an analogy that’s talked about in the coaching world and, I’m sure, elsewhere, that a plane is off-course 99% of the time (or maybe it’s 99.9% of the time?) and it only arrives where it wants to be because the pilot (or auto-pilot) is constantly course-correcting.
It’s used as an analogy for goals in that we should be constantly course correcting. Life never goes in a straight line, people say, and course correction is normal.
This sounds very reassuring, but is it actually true?
I was asked this exact question on a video call this week. The interviewer, Brooke, was asking me about how we can make more impact with what we do, and, towards the end of the call, she asked me what I’d do or what I’d advise when someone to do when they found themselves off track from where they thought they wanted to be.
How do we get back on track?
she asked.
In that moment she asked me, I found myself puzzled; the question didn’t make sense to me.
Asking how to get back to something implies that there’s a ‘track’ and there’s a ‘destination’ and therefore we’re somehow off-course. Here’s what I said to her,
The question implies that there’s a ‘place’ to get back to. That ‘back’ is a real thing, like…
