I received a very exciting phone call from one of my favorite people in the world. She called to tell me she has the opportunity to doing something she has dreamed about for a very long time. It is a life change opportunity, and with all life changing opportunities there is a lot to consider. She asked me how I am able to take risks in my life to follow the untraditional path in my own life.
1) I am a dumb hick from Wyoming who doesn’t know any better. There have been many times in my life when a situation was over I realized that I was in much greater danger than I thought at the time. I am generally oblivious, but because of that I am debilitated by fear. As my father always says, “A little fear is good.” A lot of fear makes it impossible to act. Disconnect from your fear when you have to consider a choice. As the question, “What would I do if I had no fear?”
2) It’s all a big game. If I truly believe the profession of faith that I proclaim, then I know how the story end. This life is placed in context for what it is, a short amount of time in the context of eternity. Even if I didn’t believe after this life I would spend eternity with the Supernatural, life is a long tail. Many times we fret and fuss over situation that in the long run are realized to be much less significant. It is easier to make a choice when you don’t think the world (or your world) depends on it because in most cases it doesn’t.
3) I am looking for the right struggle, not the right solution. There is nothing that makes me happier in the world than the pursuit of dreams. Choosing something to believe, or what to become and giving what I can to achieve it lights me up. It is amazing the obstacles you can overcome when you are possessed by dream. You find in yourself courage and ability you didn’t know was there. It is not that you find courage and ability to do everything, but just enough to face the challenge, task, or step that is before you now, leading you closer to the dream. Just enough to get you next step. At the next step you some how find more, more in yourself and more in your world. The out come is not important, but the passion that you pursue with, and the growth that happens along the way. A choice is easier when success is judged by who you are and what you learn, not if you achieved the original vision (man time you will realize as you grow closer the original vision is flawed and you find your way to something completely new).

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