Scott Perry, Chief Difference Maker at Creative on Purpose, argues that real transformation doesn't happen in one moment. Drawing on his coaching experience and Seth Godin's Akimbo Workshops, Perry explains how meaningful change emerges through a series of small transitions, a pilgrimage of becoming rather than a sudden epiphany.
Transformation quite a bit, maybe too much. In Seth Godin's Akimba Workshops, where I served as a head coach for 4 years, transformative is the number one word students use to describe their experience after completing a program. Transformative is also the word my coaching clients use most often to describe what happens after working with me after several weeks. But here's the thing, When I ask these students or clients to name the exact moment their metamorphosis took place, they can't. Why is that? Hey, I'm Scott Perry, Chief Difference Maker at Creative on Purpose, with today's Monday on Purpose insight and inspiration. It's seductive to think that epiphanies can be engineered or that the magic of transformation can be manufactured, but can they really? I believe that these levels of insight and understanding take time and require more than great design. Transformation happens incrementally, over a series of transitions, rather than all at once in a single moment. Epiphanies emerge over time, even when it feels like a sudden moment of sudden realization. Progress is, well, progressive. It's a journey. Not a destination. What if getting from where you are to where you want to be, or more correctly, who you are to who you want to be, is a pilgrimage of becoming and not some sort of certificate of transformation handed out on some graduation day?
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