Success Strategy: Stop Digging!

One of my father's favorite sayings was, "If you have found that you have dug yourself into a hole, the very first thing you have to do is stop digging!"

We all get ourselves in trouble sometimes. It may be in our professional or personal lives. It may be in big ways or small. It happens to all of us.

When we realize that we have "dug ourselves into a hole" we need to determine what we did that got us into that situation and then stop doing it! It sounds so simple, and yet it can be very difficult. It forces us to honestly look at ourselves and our actions. It then forces us to evaluate what we did, why, and make corrections. Self-evaluation and change are hard!

If we do not, however, we will find that we will never get out of the hole that we have dug for ourselves.