I hear and I forget, I see and I remember, I do and I understand.

Confucius (551 BCE – 479 BCE)

Where across the course of your day today, could you consider where it might be that you’re still hearing or seeing what you already know you should be doing?

A question I often ask in coaching sessions is “What do you think you could do to remedy this situation?”

If the answer is the solution, I follow up with the question “Will you?”

To know and not to do is really not to know.

Knowledge isn’t absorbed through observation alone; it’s embodied through experience. The truth only takes root when it moves from thought to action; when it becomes muscle memory, not mental clutter.

There’s no shortage of wisdom in the world today, only a shortage of willingness to live it. We scroll through insights, highlight the best lines, and nod at the truth; but until we test it, try it, and train it, it remains theory without traction.

Understanding doesn’t arrive through hearing or seeing.
It arrives in the doing.

The titles of the best books I have ever read implore action and can be judged by their cover…