on leap...

One of my favorite sayings is: "Leap, the net will be there"! I just love it. What it says to me is...take a dive, face your fears, live on the edge, take a risk, because even if you fall, you will be safe, you will not be harmed...the net will be there. I love the saying so much that I even went on a limb and free handedly painted it on one of my living room walls. I want to see it, read it, and take it in each and every day. I want to remind myself, and my daughter, that we need to take risks, and we need to fail or fall. In addition, we need to get right back up, and move on. If success came easily in each and every instance in our lives, we would not appreciate it. However, if we have to work for our success, and perhaps even fail a few times along the way, we appreciate our successes so much more. Or, what if, we took a risk, and all our failed. OH NO....what would people think, or worse yet, say? Well, I do have an opinion on failure as well. Let's pretend one has a dream, ok let's say me for instance. I have the dream of blogging, and creating a Healing Art blog, let's call it: Life According to Pink/Healthe Soul 365. So, let's say I thought about this blog for days, months, years. I practically had the bloh designed in my head, and I thought about it day and night. But there was this little thing called: fear, fear of failure, that kept me from moving forward. Well, so I thought about this blog, and I thought about it some more. I could taste it, it felt so real. But let's say I never acted on it, never created this blog I dreamed about. It just existed as this little dream in my head, and I went through life being personally disappointed with myself because I never acted on my dream. But let us say, on the other hand, that I took this leap of faith, and created a blog. Then, what would happen? Would anybody read it? Would anybody care? Would I make a difference in even one persons life? Maybe, maybe not. But even if I failed at this blog thing, I know I would be safe, because the safety net would be there. In addition, I may fail at this blog thing, if I tried, but at least I tried. So, is it better to try and fail, then to not try at all? Who knows, maybe, maybe not. What I do know, is that I LOVE my blog, I know it is not ready for the New York Times bestseller list, and I know that it is not viewed by hundreds of thousands of people, but maybe it is viewed and read by one or two people. And maybe, just maybe every once and a while I make a little difference in someone's life. Who knows. What I do know is that...I tool a LEAP, and I am not scared, because I know, the NET IS THERE!

Today's activity: take a LEAP of faith

Today I encourage you to take a leap of faith. Perhaps you have been scared or nervous or fearful to act on a personal dream that has been perkulating in your pretty little head for days, or months, or years. Today, dive into that little dream of yours....take a baby step towards your personal success. Sure taking the plunge may be scary, but have no fear, the net will be there to catch you IF you fall. Chances are, you have played the success of your dream, in your mind, hundreds, of times, so you WILL succeed. And if you fail....OH WELL, at least your tried! There are hundreds, if not thousands of successful people who failed before they succeeded. What would have happened if they did not try? We would be living in a world with a lot of "what if"s". However, because people have taken risks, and taken leap upon leap upon leap, many, many, many lives have been touched, and our worlds are just a little bit happier each and every day. At this point in our journey together I encourage you to "Leap, the net will be there"! Trust me....xo