My Leap of Faith

Dear lovely people,

If I were to write a motivational novel with a love coloring, Lisa Kleypas words will be part of my prologue “Love is always a leap into the unknown. You can try to control as many variables, and understand a situation as you can, but you're still jumping off a cliff and hoping that someone catches you.”

Trust me, this holds true about your quest for success too. "Sometimes you just have to jump. I call it a leap of faith. You don't get to know. You've studied as much as you can, you've dreamed enough, and you just jump off. Ralph Waldo Emerson advices that “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” That is how success is engineered

We don't get to know the future. It's foolish not to study your field, the market and talk to the customers and generate as much supporting information as you possibly can. But it's also true that you can become bogged down in study and research, yearning for an answer, and end up just stalled.

Even in these modern times, people seem to act as if every study, every market question, every forecast, has some kind of objective answer that will make the decision for them if they can only find it. Often they think that some other expert more qualified, more experienced, or more educated would be able to find the answers that they can't find. Trust me, many of the times, you will be disappointed with the reality.

It’s true what Marla Gibbs says “I truly believe that everything that we do and everyone that we meet is put in our path for a purpose. There are no accidents; we're all teachers - if we're willing to pay attention to the lessons we learn, trust our positive instincts and not be afraid to take risks or wait for some miracle to come knocking at our door.”

If you're going to work on anything gearing towards improving upon your life, you're going to do a lot of guessing. Educate those guesses. Research the market, study as much as you can, ponder if you insist, and then above all jump.

Note what Henry David Thoreau says “As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.”

If your life is dominated by taking the leap of faith when situations call for, you are better off. Know what, just jump.