How many times have you opted for a choice that initially terrified you?
If you are willing to commit to opportunities and experiences that test your threshold for comfort, and your tolerance for risk, you are infinitely more likely to succeed in a majority of your future endeavors.
When we are very young, it might be something as simple as trying to swing across the monkey bars and make it to the other side without falling…
As we take our first arm and swing out into the empty space, there might be a certain degree of terror that feels your soul and leaves you doubting whether this was an intelligent choice.
Independent of whether you fall or you make it across to the other side, the most important thing is that you were willing to try.
This simple lesson, ingrained in any daring attempt of any scale or any magnitude, at any age, has a direct correlation to the success metric of your overall life and the fulfillment of your dreams.
If you can understand and appreciate that regardless of whether or not you made it to the other side, you were are willing to take on something that gave you tremendous fear, you will come to realize that even when you fell, there was still another opportunity to get back up and try it again.
With enough repetition, you became strong enough or fearless enough to be capable of traversing the entire row of monkey bars.
With each and every step on the journey of our lives, we are continuously looking for more fertile ground than that upon which we stand currently.
This continuous quest fuels our understanding and our courage in ways that we might not ever truly comprehend on a personal basis.
There is tremendous growth and satisfaction of knowing that we had been scared to do something, and yet, here we are on the opposite side of having done so, having fully and completely overcome whatever fear we were coping with, and thereby replacing it with the security and confidence necessary to assume each subsequent risk of our choosing.
That is a life energy force that enables us to approach each and every new opportunity with an ever greater sense of self-assurance, thereby giving us the ammunition to grow and expand our horizons.
If you are not regularly exposing yourself to dangers of your own choosing, and enabling yourself to ultimately reach for the stars, you might well be missing the most important component of growth in your entire existence.
Happy Thursday!
Brian Weiner 