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| Hang gliding (Photo credit: Wikipedia). This might even have launched from the Saleve. |
Jean Purcell
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| He's about ready to fly...that's what he's made for |
Call me a dreamer or not, I love new experiences. Don't most of us? Yet many times we need a new push to get us going.
A friend once gave me a card that said, "A ship is safe in a harbor, but that's not what ships are made for."
My life was so full of change then that I could hardly keep up. Yet, the quote made me think about what I might dream of doing.
I'll take risks, won't you? Maybe we take them sometimes without giving it a lot of thought. But that's for small things, not larger ones.
We get excited when we hear in our heads, You should go for it! We like the Nike slogan, "Just do it!" That sells a lot of shoes.
But that's what I've been telling myself recently about a change of choice. Go for it! Fly with it!
Some decisions are huge, or as some say, ginormous! It is not a simple thing to cut back or to leave altogether what is most familiar and comfortable that came through big investments of time and heart.
A friend once gave me a card that said, "A ship is safe in a harbor, but that's not what ships are made for."
My life was so full of change then that I could hardly keep up. Yet, the quote made me think about what I might dream of doing.
I'll take risks, won't you? Maybe we take them sometimes without giving it a lot of thought. But that's for small things, not larger ones.
We get excited when we hear in our heads, You should go for it! We like the Nike slogan, "Just do it!" That sells a lot of shoes.
But that's what I've been telling myself recently about a change of choice. Go for it! Fly with it!
Some decisions are huge, or as some say, ginormous! It is not a simple thing to cut back or to leave altogether what is most familiar and comfortable that came through big investments of time and heart.
Who does not deal with dreams of doing untried things? When (1) the timing looks just right, (2) the desire to be willing to launch, to fly is strong; and (3) we can be happily,...
- at peace about leaving the familiar;
- loving the process of taking off in a specific, new direction;
- ready and willing to take the risk and the responsibility...
I think we need to take off in new creative directions, even if there is a bit of fear involved. We know how our mind has been working, thinking, hoping, planning. Eventually, we are ready to try in public, to celebrate the effort of the adventure that is happening at that certain time that is free for change and most ready.
Even when circumstances appear to pour ice over our plans, that's when we most need to keep working the creative thoughts. It's an inner thing, not necessarily survival-related yet in its own way a kind of "saving" by releasing energy toward doing what is already in us waiting to be expressed. There are no guarantees, yet...
Even when circumstances appear to pour ice over our plans, that's when we most need to keep working the creative thoughts. It's an inner thing, not necessarily survival-related yet in its own way a kind of "saving" by releasing energy toward doing what is already in us waiting to be expressed. There are no guarantees, yet...
And what if there are just certain things we can't yet do, change we can't yet arrange or manage, for whatever reasons? You and I might be amazed to find how much we can change within the same circumstances that we think are keeping us where we are.
One day we will look back to the times and places of these moments and days and have the opportunity to realize that we better understand these words:
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
(Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom_Source).
Yeah!
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