Episode 133: What Really Happens When You Reach a Big Goal

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We spend an enormous amount of time talking about how to reach our big goals.

But what actually happens after you do?

In this episode of Tales from The Lane, I'm looking at what it really feels like when something that started as a scribble in a notebook, an idea in a voice memo, or a dream you weren't quite sure you could pull off finally exists in the world.

I'm sharing some of my own finish-line moments: opening the box containing the first copies of Beyond Potential, wrapping up the first year of my Virtual Summer Cello Festival, hearing the final cheers at our first Summer Pops concert, and realizing that the big moment itself isn't always where the real payoff happens.

Sometimes the finish line is exhilarating. Sometimes it's strangely anticlimactic. Sometimes you're simply exhausted.

But then you start noticing what changed.

You trust yourself differently. You have evidence that you can make something real. Other people begin seeing you differently. New opportunities appear. Your network expands. Your tolerance for uncertainty grows. And the next big idea doesn't seem quite so impossible.

I'm also sharing stories from several of my Mastermind clients whose original goals led to outcomes they couldn't possibly have predicted: an online festival that led to teaching at a dream conservatory and judging international competitions; a distinctive teaching methodology that caught the attention of a dream school; Zoom webinars that grew into national speaking opportunities; and work in dance and movement that is now taking one client around the world.

Because sometimes your big project is an audition for opportunities you don't even know you're auditioning for.

And perhaps the biggest shift of all is one you don't fully notice until afterward:

The finish line didn't transform you. It revealed how much you'd already transformed along the way.