But what if you fly?

 

 

 

This quote has really resonated with me recently... 

 

By nature, I'm a fairly cautious person. I typically make the safe choice, take the time to weigh out tons of pros and cons, usually overthink a decision to within an inch of it's life and in the end if I'm not > 95% sure it's the "right" choice, I will likely say no. I can probably count the number of times that I have taken a leap of faith on one hand. Just like the quote starts out with, "but what if I fall?" has more often then not been my motto. 

 

But I have to be honest, using that level of scrutiny to make decisions is freakin' tiring. Slowly but surely when I made the decision to stop overthinking (which, believe me, came with it's own set of pros and cons - HA!) I was terrified of all the negative possibilities that could happen and spent very little time thinking about all amazing things that were possible. 

 

But I knew if I was going to stop worrying about falling I was really going to have to surrender those negative thought patterns and start focusing on all of the amazingly positive outcomes that might come my way. If I didn't, I knew it would never work. 

 

And although it's only been about a month since I made this mental shift, it's amazing to me how many opportunities have literally popped up out of nowhere. And the more I keep believing they will come, like magic, THE MORE THEY COME. It quite literally feels like I've had a magic wand in my pocket for 29 years and I just recently learned how to move mountains with it. I can't believe I wasted so much time clipping my own wings. 

 

So all that being said, instead of worrying if you might fall, why don't you start focusing on all of the incredible things that will happen to you if it turns out that you fly?