E and I were talking about Risk at lunch today and I realized that every single big risk I have ever taken has changed and improved my life in ways I could not imagine. I don't think of risks as failures or successes. I think of risks in terms of fear. My difficulty lies in getting beyond the fear churn and act. Fear is crucial to a good risk. Feeling the fear lets you know you're not stupid. That there are consequences to consider. However fear and those consequences should not stop you from doing the risky item.
When I thought about the unhappy parts of my life, they came about by me NOT taking a risk. By being afraid to act. By being blind to what I really wanted to do. The more I lied to myself about not acting or allowing the fear to paralyze me, the harder it became to act, and in the end the bigger the leap to a distant Brigadoon.
It's as if by taking the jump the universe buoys you up. The moment your feet leave the ground, an invisible force comes from the unknown and lifts you up. The universe wants us to take these leaps of faith. It wants us to challenge ourselves and change and evolve. And it will do everything you imagine and much that you cannot imagine to help achieve that. To provide the ground to land when the leap complete.
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