T. Harv Eker talks about a concept of `stepping into the corridor` in order to unlock or gain access to new opportunities.
The metaphor is simple.
You current situation is like being inside a room, with a single door. As long as you stay inside this room, the single door is you only option. We sometimes mistake this for a binary choice, stay in the room, with what you have, or leave the room for the unknown.
However, the reality is different.
Think of leaving the room as simply stepping into the corridor outside the room. As I sit in my office, if I were to step outside the room into the corridor, I would now have 4 additional doors I could access. I don't need to choose one now and go into that room, but I can open the door to see what is inside the room.
As long as I stay in my office and don't step into the corridor, the other doors and the rooms behind them are not available options to me.
On Monday, when I sent the email I never wanted to send, it felt more like I was running out of the building, and not just stepping into the corridor.
As it turns out, there are plenty of opportunity in the corridor I now find myself in. Opportunities I did not even consider, all only visible now, because I stepped into the corridor.
And that is the point I am trying to make. You have to step into the corridor completely. You can't look through the keyhole or try to see through the gap under the door, to try and see what might be on the other side. The only way to unlock the opportunities is to fully step into the corridor.
The metaphor is simple.
You current situation is like being inside a room, with a single door. As long as you stay inside this room, the single door is you only option. We sometimes mistake this for a binary choice, stay in the room, with what you have, or leave the room for the unknown.
However, the reality is different.
Think of leaving the room as simply stepping into the corridor outside the room. As I sit in my office, if I were to step outside the room into the corridor, I would now have 4 additional doors I could access. I don't need to choose one now and go into that room, but I can open the door to see what is inside the room.
As long as I stay in my office and don't step into the corridor, the other doors and the rooms behind them are not available options to me.
On Monday, when I sent the email I never wanted to send, it felt more like I was running out of the building, and not just stepping into the corridor.
As it turns out, there are plenty of opportunity in the corridor I now find myself in. Opportunities I did not even consider, all only visible now, because I stepped into the corridor.
And that is the point I am trying to make. You have to step into the corridor completely. You can't look through the keyhole or try to see through the gap under the door, to try and see what might be on the other side. The only way to unlock the opportunities is to fully step into the corridor.