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Seeking Sageship: Beyond Leadership

Why People Rarely Experience Transformation

The Two Things That Stand In Your Way

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Cody Dakota Wooten, C.B.C.
Dec 11, 2025
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Why People Rarely Experience Transformation

The Two Things That Stand In Your Way

So many people are struggling in the world today...

And there is a good portion that hopes for that to change.

They are seeking Transformation.

Not just growth...

But deep and profound change.

You might be one of them.

But here is the problem...

Few people actually ever attain true Transformation.

There is a lot of talk about it...

A lot of hope for it...

But a significant lack of Transformation occurs.

But why is that?

What is it that causes people to struggle to attain the Transformation that they seek?

I have found that, usually, there are two things that stand in most people’s way...

And they are related to each other.

The first...

Is that people often do not take action...

Or the actions they take do not lead to Transformation.

On the first end of this spectrum...

There are people who talk and talk and talk about how they want change...

But they never actually do anything.

They complain...

They yell...

They pray...

But they do not do.

They wait...

And wait...

And wait...

Expecting things to change for the better.

But usually, it does not...

Because Transformation requires us to take our own lives into our hands...

Accept responsibility for the direction of our lives...

To take accountability for the results we do or do not get.

We will not always get what we deserve...

Things will go wrong...

And not our way...

But that will equally happen...

Or worse...

If we do not take any action at all.

On the other end of this spectrum...

You have people who are taking a lot of action...

Sometimes more action than their body can physically take...

Which causes them to experience Burnout.

But the problem is that all of the actions they are taking...

Do not create Transformation.

It could be that they are taking course after course...

Or they are doing work that they feel comfortable doing...

But not the type of work where Transformation happens.

Think of it like this...

If you have the goal to reach the North Pole...

Will you ever get there if you walk east or west?

No.

You’ll walk and walk and walk...

But you’ll never actually reach the North Pole...

Because you’re always going in the wrong direction.

Many people do a version of this in their lives...

Then complain that they haven’t reached their Goals.

It is good to learn...

It could be great to take action...

But it is important to ensure that you are taking the right actions.

Which brings us to the second thing that stands in most people’s way...

They fail to gain wisdom.

The reason this happens ties back to the first thing...

Action.

See, to gain Wisdom...

You must take Action toward what you want...

And that becomes knowledge.

But...

Knowledge is only beneficial...

If it is first applicable to the goal of Transformation...

And second, if we learn from that knowledge and turn it into experience...

And we take that experience to help us better on the journey to Transformation.

If we gain the wrong Knowledge...

The experience will not be helpful to the goal of Transformation...

And if we do not learn from our experiences to shape us better...

Then we risk getting stuck and falling into circles...

Always moving, but getting the same lackluster results.

This is why most people never attain the Transformation that they hope for.

The journey of Transformation requires us to take a lot of action, and perhaps even more wisdom...

And so few do enough...

For long enough...

To reach true levels of Transformation.


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To reach Transformation?

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