Peter Sorgenfrei walks through how to decide what to change in your life or work. He quotes J.P. Morgan on the importance of resolving not to stay where you are, then offers a practical exercise: draw a vertical line, list what you want to change on the left, and map concrete actions, feasibility, and impact on the right.
J.P. Morgan, the OG banker, said the key to getting somewhere is to decide that you're not going to stay where you are. And by that, of course, he meant in order to make a change, you need to realize or decide that where you are, what you're doing, is not the right thing for you anymore, and then make that change. And that's easier said than done. So what do you do if you think that, that something has to change? Well, what I do is I sit down, I draw a line on the paper, From north to south. And then on the left side, I write the things that I am not happy with, that I want to change. And on the right-hand side, I write down the things of what am I going to do about those individual items? Can I do something about it? How would I do something about it? And how quickly can that have an impact? And that's how I decide to change things that I'm stuck in.
