Grab the Opportunity
Life doesn’t have to go as planned.
We tend to think that things should or need to go a certain way based on how we envisioned our future to be.
But the truth is, most of the best things that can happen to you don’t come out of some life plan you made up before something new and great presented itself.
If an opportunity really excites you or you’re passionate about it or it brings you joy, and it is in line with your values in life, why wouldn’t you take it? What’s stopping you?
Well for most people, it’s fear. Fear of things not working out or it being the wrong decision, sure. But more paralyzing is the fear of the unknown.
The unknown scares us because we haven’t envisioned it. And since we don’t know what it looks like, we therefore don’t feel comfortable or safe.
But consider this: the unknown is where opportunity exists.
So if you have the opportunity to do something that inspires you, would make you immeasurably happy or betters your future, and there is any conceivable way to make it happen, I dare you to take the leap.
Worst case scenario? It doesn’t work out.
Ooooh scary…
But so what?
Everyone is afforded a blank slate to start over whenever they need it. An inherent fact of life is that it’s always moving forward. It is not obligatory that you drag your past experience along with you like an overstuffed bag of unneeded luggage, for which you’re paying a significant amount extra. Take only the golden nuggets that serve you and walk lighter and with a more empowered sense of what works for you into the vast blank canvas of your future.
If you never go for what inspires you, for what you want, you certainly never get it. Inspiration – Action = No results.
I left a full time job to become a life coach. After a year and a half of continually growing my business, I owned up to what I really wanted which was to travel. After passing through some nerves and a couple months of consideration, I decided I would travel around the world for nearly 2 years and started planning. About half way though my trip, I fell in love with the most incredible man I’ve ever known and have decided my next step will be to move all the way to South Africa to be with him, and we are maintaining and building that relationship all while I continue to finish the travels I’d set out to do, knowing I would regret it if I didn’t. All of those have had varying levels of being scary, but they were also amazing opportunities that inspired me and were in line with what I ultimately value in life: joy, love and peace.
And the beauty in it is that they irrefutably fed into one another. I wouldn’t have summoned the courage to disregard what was expected of me and live my dream of traveling the world without having done the transformational work I received through coaching. And I wouldn’t have met the man of my dreams if my travels hadn’t brought me all the way to South Africa, a place I’d wanted to visit for years.
So if you’ve created an opportunity for yourself in life for which you’re teetering on the fence of indecision, consider choosing the side that ignites your spirit. Choose the path where you don’t have it all figured out and don’t know how it will go, that may surprise you with even more amazing opportunities and gifts than you could have even imagined.
Let me know how it goes…
