A short motivational YouTube video (Mindset Monday) using a Seth Godin anecdote about children in a forest: 95% walked in circles and only 5% found a destination. The narrator uses this to urge viewers to set direction and act—"point and go"—for the remainder of the year and into 2026.
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October 27, 2025
Foreign.
Seth Godin once told me a story about kids that were taken into the forest to see how they might react, what they might do. Would they recover? Would they find their way? I don't think you'd be shocked to hear that 95% of them walked in circles, walked in circles endlessly and ultimately had to be saved. Only 5% of the people looked around and said, wait a minute. The sunset, the sun rise, the tallest mountain. They got a destination. They pointed towards something and said, let's go that way. 5% of the people know exactly where they're going. 95% walk aimlessly in circles. On this Monday, as you think about the balance of this year and what you want to accomplish in 2026, do not walk in circles. Point and go.
