Stay Here or Go There

You always have a choice.

You can stay here. Staying here might be the best option. It certainly has benefits like you’re already here, familiarity, you might be the expert, and your people might be here. It also feels less risky.

Or, you can go there. Going there requires effort, might be the wrong place, and probably doesn’t have your people. It feels riskier.

Which is better? I guess that depends on how you define better.

One thing’s for sure, everybody is somewhere, and most of them act like where they are is better, regardless of whether they feel like it’s better. Intertia and status often drive the acting.

If you can recognize, or at least define for yourself, what better is, then you can choose wisely and deliberately about where you’re going to be.