Trying to go from A to B had me running around in circles for years. A bigger turnover, another contract, more clients. Whatever it was, I was at A, and I wanted to get to B, only I didn’t.
Phil Knight, writing in Shoe Dog, reminds us that “running around in circles” suggests that somehow we are chasing our tails – going nowhere. A to B is direction; A to A is, well, going around in circles. Yet, ask anyone who runs track, and the chances are it’s not A to A but A on A.
That’s when it changes for you and me, when we stop mistaking the destination for the practice.
We might feel like we’re going around in circles, but when effort is the destination, we’re practicing.