The pattern of continuing onward

The pattern of continuing onward

You know it’s not working anymore.
Yet you keep going.

Because stopping feels like giving up.
Because change feels like failure.
Because what you’ve always done must work if you just try harder.

This is one of the most common patterns among leaders.
The pattern of persevering.

Not because it feels good.
But because it feels familiar.

And somewhere along the way, you learned that perseverance is a virtue.
That persevering means you are strong.

But what if persevering on the same path is not perseverance, but avoidance?
Avoiding looking at what is really going on.

Because that requires something other than perseverance.
It requires daring to stop.