Do you ever feel like you want to make a change in your life or do some­thing new and when it gets down to doing it you lose momen­tum and give up?

Too often is this the case for me.

I won­der how things would change if you, instead of just imag­in­ing what life would be like if you did that thing you have always wanted to try, just did it.

This is how I pic­ture it:

Imag­ine you are walk­ing along and some­one comes up to you and holds out a case of money with a mil­lion dol­lars in it and says, “if you jump off that cliff into the water below it, this is all yours.” “Sure!” you say with enthu­si­asm. I mean, c’mon, it’s a mil­lion bucks! So as you’re walk­ing up the cliff you are psych­ing your­self up and think­ing of all the things you could do with that money, where you’ll go, the things you’ll see, etc. “The cliff,” you say to your­self, “really isn’t that high.”

Finally when you get to the edge of the cliff, thoughts start flood­ing your mind. “Well, what if there is a rock at the bot­tom. This cliff is higher than it looked. Do I really need the money that bad?” You psych your­self out and walk back down, safely to the ground.

The point is, you won’t ever know unless you take that step and jump in. Who knows, for all that mat­ters, the water below could be nice a deep and safe as can be. It’s the fear of the unknown that pre­vents us from doing what we want to do.

So how do we get past that?

I think the answer is to not think. Just start doing what you want to do as soon as you think to do it (just so long as it’s noth­ing that will phys­i­cally or men­tally harm you or your family).

I worry about get­ting to the end of my life and not hav­ing really lived. It’s for cer­tain that when I get to the end of my life I will have raised my chil­dren and pro­vided a com­fort­able life for my fam­ily. I just don’t want to spend my whole life con­fined to 4 walls and a com­puter to do it.