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Leading Greats #126
Why Motion Isn't Progress => Avoid The Trap:
Ronnie Kinsey, MBA
August 19, 2025
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Motion looks convincing => The Rocking Horse Trap
A calendar stacked with calls, constant messages, back-to-back commitments.
To the outside, it signals productivity. Yet motion is only energy spent.
The rocking horse moves, but it doesn’t advance.
Progress is different. Progress creates visible shifts - outcomes that change direction, solve problems, and open new opportunities.
In leadership, those outcomes are the true scorecard.
Nobody remembers how many hours you stayed busy. They remember what improved, what grew, what was fixed.
The challenge is that motion feels safe. It’s a shield from risk.
We convince ourselves that staying busy protects us from failure, when in reality it only delays the decisions that move things forward.
Progress demands sharper discipline. It calls for the courage to stop and ask: Is this pushing us closer to the end goal, or simply filling space?
That question strips away distractions that consume effort but leave nothing better behind. It forces the choice of a few decisive priorities over a flood of low-value activity.
Think back to the leaders who stood out in your career.
Chances are, they weren’t buried in endless motion.
They were the ones who made moves that counted. They cleared obstacles, aligned people, and delivered real results.
Their focus wasn’t on looking busy. It was on advancing the work that mattered most to the business, the team, and the future.
And outside of leadership, the principle holds.
In life, we slip into the same pattern - scrolling instead of connecting, planning instead of acting, repeating instead of building.
Progress isn’t at all about how much time you spend. Instead it’s what moves you closer to where you intend to go.
So pause and examine where you may be rocking back and forth.
Where are you investing energy without forward motion? Redirect that force into one clear action this week that creates measurable progress.
Your call to action:
Cut one activity that only looks productive, and replace it with one step that moves you toward a real outcome. Send the proposal. Close the loop. Make the call. Build something lasting.
Motion fills time. Progress compounds into change.
Have the best productive week ahead!!
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