What if the answers you seek are hidden in the unknown? In this week's Momentum Consulting Newsletter, Martha Lynn Mangum shares a powerful reflection on her cave canoeing experience in Belize. Sitting in complete darkness, she discovered how fear of the unknown keeps us stuck—and how shifting our perspective can illuminate new solutions. Read on to explore how both darkness and light play a role in our growth.

Your brakes are not working! You frantically do everything you can to slow the car down and manage to reduce your speed, but you still bump into the car in front of you.

This approach allows businesses to develop long-term solutions that can lead to lasting success. To achieve sustainable improvement, conducting a thorough root cause analysis is essential.

“The proactive approach to a mistake is to acknowledge it instantly, correct and learn from it. This literally turns a failure into a success.” -Stephen R. Covey

We have stages in life that feel lower in physical and mental energy than others. Perhaps it’s a stage related to illness or stress.It seems logical that we would look at the cause, not the symptom, but what do we normally do?

At times, fixing problems at the source may sound like a clear and easy set of steps to follow, but it may require more self-awareness and responsibility than complex thinking.