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October is my favorite month! Days like today are incredible, the bright sunshine and the yellow and red leaves. The trees change so effortlessly. Too bad people can't do the same!

The truth is change is hard and nothing will change until something changes, no matter how small. We often get stuck or frustrated, or seem to go in directions that don't get us where we want to be. We try and try, and try again, even though our favorite strategy isn't working, and there is little evidence it will ever work. And yet, we keep on trying. But many of us are using ineffective strategies. We have goals or desires or dreams, but we are pursuing them with strategies that have almost no chance of succeeding. We have been "trying" for years without success, and yet we keep on doing the same things in the same ways, year after year.

If you are not reaching your goal, you have two basic choices: change your goal, or change your strategy. If your current strategy isn't working, tell the truth about that. If you've had a major goal for more than a year and it isn't happening, ask why not! Question your approach. Get better advice. Do something different!

And, above all, acknowledge the things that have to change in order to make room for your goal to arrive. What will you have to stop doing? What steps or changes will move you forward this week? What must you do, or stop doing? If your dreams and goals are truly important to you, do one thing different this week. Take a step. Try a new way. Then step back and watch what happens.