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You can get coaching anytime. If coaching is appro-
priate for your golf or tennis game, it is even more ap-
propriate for the game of life. Ask someone to be honest
with you and coach you for a while. Let them check your
“swing.” Let them tell you what they see. It’s a coura-
geous thing to do, and it will always lead to more self-
motivation and growth.
63. Try to sell your home
Once when Steve Hardison and I were discussing a
few of my old habits that were holding me back from
realizing my business goals, I blurted out to him, “But
why do I do those things? If I know they hold me back,
why do I continue to do them?”
“Because they are home to you,” he said. “They feel
like home. When you do those things, you do them be-
cause that’s what you’re comfortable doing, and so you
make yourself right at home doing them. And as they
say, there’s no place like home.”
“Home” can be an ugly place if it’s not kept up and
consciously made beautiful. “Home” can be a dark, damp
prison, smelling of bad habits and laziness. But we still
don’t want to leave it, no matter how bad it gets, be-
cause we think we are safe there.
However, when we inspect the worn-out house more
closely, we can see that the safety we think we’re expe-
riencing is pure self-limitation.
It’s very hard to leave home—many of us try and fail
many times. Noel Paul Stookey wrote a hauntingly beau-
tiful song called “The House Song,” which captures this
feeling. The opening words are, “This house goes on sale
every Wednesday morning...and is taken off the market
in the afternoon.”