Are you living your life the way you are simply because you’re afraid not to?

Do you actually love the life you are living?  Or are you living from habit?  So many of us pick a job or career when we first start out because it sounds interesting or exciting.  And it is.  To start with.  So you go to work the first week or month because there are new and exciting things to learn and people to talk with.  But eventually, it becomes less exciting.  Less interesting.  Then it becomes a habit to get up and go to work doing the same thing at the same time.

You get fed up with the job, but blame it on the company.  Or the co-workers.  So you start looking for a new job – but in the same line of work.  Because it’s what you know how to do.  What you think (or resume readers think!) is what you are best at.

What if none of that is true?  What if you could be a much greater contribution to the world doing something else entirely?  We don’t seem to consider that question.  Or if we do, we discount it.  “I don’t have the experience it takes to…”  “No one would hire me to…” et cetera.  And the world seems to agree.

Even if we know what we could do, we stop ourselves.  Why?  What are you afraid will  happen if you try something new?  Who are you afraid will be unhappy or disappointed if you try something new?  Why are judgments stopping you – your own judgments or someone else’s?

Courage is a learned thing.  So take a small step.  Find something small you really want to do and try it.  You might fail; you might also succeed!  But what you will find out is the the world will not stop.  The sun will still come up.  Your neighborhood will still look the same.  In fact, very few people will even notice.  But you will.  You will see that you are capable of taking a risk.  Then, take another one.  And another one.  Pretty soon you’ll recognize that the only one who is keeping you from having a life of adventure – the life you’ve always dreamed of – is YOU.

What would you really like to do?  Do it!  I DARE YOU!