I know what it looks like now. But just start.

Lin-Manuel Miranda

At one point or another, we all face some degree of overwhelm.  There’s so much to do, and it feels like you haven’t the slightest clue how to do it.  Along with the overwhelm comes anxiety, fear, and so much more.

We push past it, and discover a whole new level–new learning, new challenges, new opportunities.  And right as you get comfortable in the new place, there you are again–back to being uncomfortable and restless.  The feeling, I have decided, is a sure-fire way of recognizing that it’s time to Level Up.

These days, it constantly feels like I’m in that uncomfortable place.  That place that I don’t really want to be in, but when I think about the status quo, I don’t want to be there, either.  So I fight the discomfort, until I realize I’m fighting it, and then….I let go.  I choose to jump in with both feet, my Fear strapped to my back, in hopes that it might fall away as I plunge into the unknown.

“The Fear” (as Chandler Bing would call it) presents itself both personally and professionally.  With the launch of this book baby of mine, I’m entering a whole new world that I have no experience with.  Everything seems foreign.   When my brother-in-law commented that the book seemed to be doing well, my response was, “I feel like I’m staring up at a mountain, with no climbing gear and no climbing experience.”  His response to me?  A thumbs up; an acknowledgment that my remarks sound about right for anyone who ever embarks on a new journey.

Recently, there was a death in the family–my husband’s aunt.  During and after her funeral, I was reflecting on her life and who she was.

She lived, by most standards, an ordinary life, but she did it in the most extraordinary way. She had so much FAITH–in the Universe & in her family. So much so that she was rarely ever angry or upset. Since fear is the root of anger, my thought is that she lived life with so much FAITH that she never needed FEAR.

Which got me thinking–what would it be like to live FEARLESSLY, with FAITH instead? It takes courage. It takes trusting your Self, the process, and that which you cannot control. A worthy feat, no doubt.

Are you willing to try it–just for a day, or even for an hour?  “I know what it looks like now.  But  just start.”