Welcome to the business buffet side dish. This is a quick snack on a specific area of business.

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business buffet.page or listen to wherever you get your podcasts. It's snack time. If you didn't

know by now, I am an avid reader learning is a passion my wife jokes that

i would be a professional student if our finance is allowed i have a series of favorite information

sources one of which is entrepreneur magazine jason fearfer is the editor-in-chief and publishes many great

articles. If you don't already subscribe to Entrepreneur, I suggest you consider picking one up.

In today's podcast, I will share an article Jason published in the fall 2019 Startups Edition

entitled Your Future is Just Six Steps Away.

You are six steps away from your goal. So am I. So is everyone. And I mean it. Regardless of

our circumstances, career paths, or past accomplishments, we are all six steps away.

But here's the kicker. We can never see more than one step ahead.

This is a little mental trick I came up with recently as a way to help a friend of mine.

He's stuck in his career, working a job he hates,

but unsure of what to do next. How do I know what direction to move in? He asked me.

Should it be music, which is his first love, or tech, which he is interested in,

or content production, which he's developed a knack for.

He's been asking me this for months, but because he can't decide which step to take,

he instead takes no steps at all. He stayed in place, and so, in effect, he's chosen to continue being miserable in his current job.

We've all suffered some version of this, haven't we?

We've become paralyzed by opportunity.

We fantasize about making a change,

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