Have you ever had a challenge so painful that you waited years to face it?

But there were a couple of things I dealt with when I was younger, too. One was an addiction issue, and I open my keynotes with that. Another was that I couldn’t enunciate the letter R, so I was bullied a lot in school because I couldn’t even pronounce my own name. I eventually got tired of the pain, so I went to the school pathologist one day. After 45 minutes, I stormed out because she had me putting my tongue in places I never had before, and it made sounds that scared me. So I left and went back to my pain.

What was missing was direction. I kept taking actions, but I didn’t have an end result—no destination. I finally said, I need to get rid of this thing. I found a really good pathologist in New York, went to her, and asked, “Can you really do this?” She said, “Yes, but if you’re just going to come here once a week and not practice in between, it’s not happening. Whether it takes six months or a year depends on you.”

It took about a year and a half, but I got rid of it. And that became a big lesson: if you don’t have a destination big enough and compelling enough, you’ll never get there. Things are going to happen along the journey—like that first pathologist who knocked me on my butt—and I gave up for a year because my destination wasn’t big enough yet. But as the pain kept getting bigger, I eventually reached the point where I had to do something. But why did I have to wait that year? Why did I have to wait the two years before that?

I didn’t know it then, but that experience actually started forming the Velocity Mindset®.

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