How to jump to the water? Do you remember this feeling just a second before you jump to the water? Let’s try to recall it together I want to take you together with me to a short tour that you might have never did, maybe it was a long time ago, or just last summer, lets see how does it feel... Take few deep breath and walk with me in your imagination, it is spring time now you went out for a walk with friends, all teenagers, it’s a cloudy day with slight wind still just a little bit cold. You are walking on a high cliff with the most beautiful landscape around. When you get closer and closer to the edge of the cliff, you can see a breathtaking lake with deep blue water down in front of you. You know this cliff very well and you knew that like any other teenager your time to jump from it to these water has arrive.... you and your friends are a bit nervous, you sow already teenager jumping from this cliff, this is a very old tradition but now it is different now it is your turn. And when you look down on the water, it feels totally different.... do you feel this feeling in your stomach too? you get even closer to the edge.. you look down to the blue water...wow this is scary, this is so high!! What a stupid idea… should I give up now? Am I crazy to jump from here?? All my friends are jumping as well, how can I give up? what can I do?? Oh... ok, who is going to be the first? Take a look again, feel the fear in your body… step back… smile to your friend, all of you are confuse now, who is going to take the challenge?? One of your friends is throwing a small stone, you can how see it fall down, it looks like ages in slow motion... and then blip.. the little stone is touching the water creating beautiful, perfect round rings of waves in the water.... You are taking a very deep breath and saying to your friends “I’ll do it first!!” You are not sure from where this voice come from but it was definitely you…. You take off your clothes, you are only with your bathing suit now, you feel the cold wind when you get close and closer to the edge of the cliff, your friends are quiet now waiting for you to follow your statement… you are very close now, your knees are a bit shaky, you hope your legs are not going not fail you now when you are just standing still on the edge looking down the water, feeling this frightening distance between you and the ground, you can hear you friends little nervous laughter at the back when while looking at you, you look down and think maybe I should go back?? No I can’t I have to do it now…. OK… OK… I’ll count down to 5… God help me… 5… 4… 3… 2… I’m doing it!! 1.. you push your legs and JUMP all happen quicker than you can think and you feel the splash of the cold water hitting your body but you don’t really care now!! You did it! A powerful feeling of JOY explode in your body and mind, you come out the water surface and shout out loud Yaaaa.… I did it!! Your friends are cheering to you from the top of the cliff, now it is their turn... WOW, what an amazing experience!! Thats how you jump to the water… What is your cliff now? Where is your lake? Are you the one who is going to jump first?? So lets jump to the water now!! Lets take one step farther to the edge of the cliff experience. I have tried to share with you the thoughts and the feeling of a teenager doing something totally irrational. We are not design to jump from cliffs to cold water but still we do that. Any pioneer, any inventor, any entrepreneur do that, all are jumping from high cliffs to cold water... What can we learn about it? The most important lesson is that its not a rational decision… After you made all your calculations about your future plans, you evaluated all the pros and cons, and you carefully measured the risks, after all of that there is still high level of uncertainty that you have to deal with. When it comes to initiate a new project, open a new business or taking a big change in life, our ability to deal with the situation logically is limited. So my dear friends if you think you can start something new that involve some risk only with a logical process, you might find yourself totally paralyzed without any ability of taking action. Don’t take me wrong, you have to measure carefully the risk but to fully understand that the decision of making the step forward, the decision to jump is not logical. Only when you accept the limitation of your logical processing mechanism to decide, you can make a space for taking that risk. Can you recall how you did it in the cliff experience? How our imaginative hero, (you..), took a commitment? “I’ll do it first!!”... Can you recall how your logic tried to stop you and question your ability to jump? You were not even sure if your legs will follow your orders... But against your logic, you did!! What is that power that push you over the cliff to the cold water? What is the power that pushed you to achieve your challenge and meet your commitment? It was a deep trust and faith that you can do it!! Not a rational one but emotional and intuitive one. This is the trust that no school on earth can teach you. This is the trust that you have to deal with totally by yourself. My only advice for you, (and maybe my most important one so far), is that you have what it takes to jump to the water!!! you have it and you can muster it!!! Just listen to yourself. You have it, you know that you want to jump to the water so you definitely can do that!! And don’t listen to much too your logic, it has limitations, listen to your big and strong heart!!
Posted on: Sun, 04 Jan 2015 21:15:44 +0000
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