Endings and Beginnings

by Matthew Best

It's been said that beginnings are often disguised at painful endings. Take a look around you at life cycles. The ending of business or personal relationships. The ending of a job or the "failure" of a business. The ending of a sporting event.

These are all endings, but also beginnings - the question is what it is the beginning of? So often we get caught up in the status quo that we struggle to hold on to what we are familiar with. In doing this, we make the ending more painful. We are often left asking ourselves if we could have preventing the ending at all. When we lock ourselves on the familiar we miss the new beginning.

New beginnings are where the opportunities exist. New beginnings challenge us to grow, to do something new, to expand ourselves beyond what we think we know and are comfortable with.

This isn't always a pleasant experience, but it is growth. What are the endings and beginnings in your business? What are you doing today
to embrace a new beginning as an opportunity for growth?

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