From Good Intentions to Actual Progress: Lessons from the Gym, for Leaders 🏋️ 💼


Okay. No one is looking. In the safety of your own mind, raise your hand if you:

👋 Have more than one leadership, professional development, or “Hey, this looks interesting” article open in a tab on your browser.
👋 Have attended a conference, leadership retreat, or any other “development” intensive that you really enjoyed, came home, and never looked at your notes/materials again.
👋 Heard something smart on a podcast, thought “I should remember that,” and forgot it two stoplights later.
👋 Saved a bunch of recipes/glute exercises/communication tips on Instagram or TikTok — and have no idea where they actually are.

(Do we even know how to access flagged TikToks? Asking for a friend. 👋)

If you’re nodding: same.

All of these examples point to the same question: “How do we get from the good intentions of information gathering to the progress of actually DOING the thing(s)?”

Follow Your Plan, Not Your Feelings

Truth bomb. 💣 Getting from vision to execution IS. THE. WORK.

And here is the really real — it requires a plan.

Making a plan is about both the big idea and the mundane daily practice of gettin’ it done. What we tend to see in our experience with clients (and ourselves) is a lack of patience for, and commitment to, the daily “doing.”

We all love the visioning, but the daily tedium of the doing — decidedly less fun.

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Xo,
Anna

Anna Baeten
Founder & Consultant

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