Nothing Changes Until You Do
We often find ourselves waiting. Waiting for a difficult colleague to finally understand, for a relationship to magically improve, or for circumstances to align before we can truly move forward. It's easy to feel like a passenger in our own lives, constantly reacting to what happens *to* us, rather than shaping what happens *through* us. Mike Robbins argues that this external focus is precisely what keeps us stuck. He shows how our default tendency to seek outside fixes for internal frustrations is a powerful illusion. The real leverage point, he suggests, is always within our own 'response-ability' – our capacity to choose how we show up, regardless of what's unfolding around us. This isn't about blaming ourselves, but about reclaiming agency. When we shift our internal landscape, the world around us often begins to reflect that change in surprising ways.