Closing the Gap | Goals & Motivation | @caroline-cavanagh | The Anxiety Alchemist

27 May 2026 · 1 min

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In this brief motivational segment, the speaker uses a sat‑nav metaphor to illustrate how visualising a future outcome (the “postcode”) must be paired with concrete actions to bridge the distance between current reality and the desired goal. By likening the mind to a driver, she explains that each decision point—choosing a course, reaching out to a contact, making a phone call—acts like a navigation instruction that guides you closer to the target. The core message is that merely imagining a success (e.g., performing on a massive stage) is insufficient; purposeful action and following the guidance that emerges at each juncture are essential for the “gap” to close and the vision to become reality.

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I absolutely love this one, and clients really relate to it too. So if you think about a sat nav, you could be sitting in your car on your driveway putting a postcode in— Leeds, for example— but you're still on your drive. You have to take action to start moving the wheel, and as soon as you start moving, at every junction that you get, every decision point you need to make, the sat nav tells you what you need to do to get closer. And what was once miles away The gap closes until you eventually get there. And the mind works in exactly the same way. You can put a future memory in. So let's just say I'm going to imagine myself being on a massive stage in Wembley, thousands of people listening to what I'm going to have to say. And I think about that. That's my postcode. But then I have to take action. There's no good just sitting there going, well, come on then, bring me the gig. I have to do something. And as I do something, decision points come up. Do I do that course? Do I do— speak to that person? Do I make that phone call? But the guidance comes to you, and when you follow that guidance, the gap between where you want to be and where you are closes and closes until that becomes the reality. It works.