"To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself."
~Soren Kierkegaard ~
It's so easy to second-guess ourselves. We have a plan, an idea, an inspiration, and then as soon as we begin to act on it we are filled with doubt. "Who am I kidding?" we think. We are suddenly gripped with the thought that perhaps our great idea is actually a terrible idea. And maybe we even feel a kind of hot internal shame.
But we must silence these doubts and objections and push on. Maybe our critical voices come from our parents, or our friends from long ago, or our own inner judge, but they are old tapes and they cannot help us if we want to evolve. We have to be willing to take a risk and then take another. If we fail, we will not do so without having learned something, and if we succeed, what glory!
I am willing to take a risk and make my life an adventure.
