GALT Consulting LLC

A good friend of mine, communications expert Matt Block, recently told me about a study that showed that rats in a maze almost always accelerate as they get closer to their objective.  He went on to relate this to people working toward an objective and he came up with a brilliant observation.  If a person wants to always move quickly toward their objectives, they need to establish shorter objectives along the way.  In other words, if it is your dream to open up a business, you might not move quickly toward that goal because it is pretty far away.  However, if you break up the goal in "bite-sized" pieces, you will move more quickly (ex: set up the LLC, make a logo, meet 10 other business owners and discuss starting a business, etc). 

Imagine that everyone lives in a huge, dark room.  Throughout the room, opportunity is placed in various spots (and moved around from time to time).  You have only 2 things that help you navigate; a flashlight (your knowledge) and your memory of where you have been in the room (your experience).  If you are standing in one place, you can only see as far as your flashlight will shine and you aren't learning the landscape of the room.  However, which direction do you move?  The answer is that it really doesn't matter as long as you move and use your flashlight to light the way.  The important thing is that you do move so that you can discover the opportunities waiting in the dark.

The point here is simple.  Getting closer to your goal is only one step away...  even if you don't know what that goal is.