What’s Dot2Dot? It’s about the how-to’s of making a change in your life - like crossing across a river by stepping from rock to rock. Dot2Dot works like that, moving from one good step to the next.

How do you know what step to take? We’ll get to that later, but first you’ve got to decide to cross the river – how does that happen?

First, there are life traumas: addictions, divorce, death of a loved one, termination from a job, serious illness, accidents, getting caught up in some bad behavior. These are all connected in some way to pain and suffering, to a life malfunctioning. If you’ve had enough, you’ll be ready to change. Yet remember - the rewards for recovery from these situations are among the greatest a person can receive - this is a fact.

There are also less obvious paths to change - an example would be a person who stays bolted to the same job year after year, in spite of feeling completely dissatisfied and alienated by the work. The tail end of this scenario is burnout and spiritual exhaustion. Come the point of exhaustion and again the upside is that you are ripe and ready to change.

And there are people who change simply because they want to – they are functioning well, but know they can do even more. They want to expand, to take on more responsibility, to grow their business, use more than one talent, to sample more of the fruit of life. But first, they need to get past a few roadblocks.

Wherever you are on this spectrum, Dot2Dot will give you some idea of what you need to learn in order to cross the river and to know which rocks are slippery and which are safe. This can save you a lot of time.

If you’d like to try the first stone to step onto, here’s one I like to use: make a list of the five most important changes you would like to make in your life. Rank the list in terms of priority and be explicit about what system of priority you are using. Then examine your priority system closely and be certain it is the one you want to use. Once completed, this exercise will give you a pretty clear picture of where to begin making changes.

The next entry will contain some suggestions for the second step.