Teachers to Trainers

Conclusion

Lisa Spinelli

“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”

—Tao Te Ching

If you are ready for change, you have to start somewhere. For many of us, making a big change seems daunting because we are focused on the ending—making the entire journey as one giant leap. But the journey doesn’t usually happen all at once. With every major change come a thousand steps beforehand. Most of those steps are small ones, and some of them you might have already made unknowingly—like reading this book!

The climb to a new career path reminds me of Free Solo, an award-winning 2018 documentary about professional rock climber Alex Honnold. Honnold climbs without ropes or safety nets, and his dream was to conquer El Capitan, a 900-meter vertical-faced ...