John and Sherry did it when they decided to go from advertising copywriters of a well-known ad agency to Sherry working full-time on their delicious blog This Young House. David Wroblewski nailed it when he went from successful software programmer to first time best-selling novelist of The Story of Edgar Sawtelle. What do they have in common? They took that big leap into the world of the unknown.
At every fork in the road, we have two choices: we can either take the easy road and save our dreams for a rainy day or we can venture out even before we feel ready to meet fear head on and take that leap. Before I started writing again, I thought that I had to wait for something, for permission, a sign, anything, to make sure I was on the right path. What I learned was that to do something you want to do…you actually have to do it! What a concept. The difficult part, however, is to deal with the fears that starts to come up when you want your dream to be more than something that happens when you’re asleep. Questions like, “Will I be good enough?” start to creep up. Right now, I’m working on an article that hopefully will get published. It’s exciting yet scary. It’s easier to stay where you are then to take that big leap into the unknown. But whenever I get to that scary place, I remember that millions of people have already done what I’m doing, and they survived…even better than that is that they lived!
Monday, April 27th, 2009, 10:45 pm | 
Facing Fears, Following your dreams, Inspirational Stories | 
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