If I let doubt & fear host, they would serve me right.
Like Steve Harvey says, we have to face our fears if we want to succeed. And we have to do things that scare us, without the greed. Recently, my two eldest boys started work at their new summer jobs, apprenticeship in its finest form. Through this exciting process, I coach them with tough love support. I helped them eat their doubt & fear for breakfast, before they crossed the threshold to their new surreptitious sphere. They are now in their new busboy career. I am humbly reminded to not let fear serve me and to throw my own dirty bucket of doubt down the drain.
If I worried about the how, I’d be stuck in the cosmos of what if & uncertainty.
Don’t worry about the how, is what Inspirational Teacher Iyanla Vanzant says. Years ago, her talk on not worrying about the how, opened my eyes to what I already live. But I was challenged further, to take hold of my passion & live even more out loud. Naturally we can worry about the how, if doing anything alone. But we are seldom alone, even if working from home. Where there is a will, there is a sway and nothing will get in our way. If we need help, there are people willing, almost any day. If I worried about how I would succeed, my passion would perish. If I stayed stuck in the how, there’d be nothing to cherish.
If I waited for perfection, I would not have flown from the nest.
For me, and Tom Petty, the waiting is the hardest part. Every day you get one more yard. We take it on faith, and take it to the heart, alas the waiting is the hardest part. I’ve been waiting & watching 4 baby birds grow in a small nest in my backyard pergola. I trust in the universe that they will not fall, but soar & fly into the clear blue sky. The nest can be a comfy one, a great place to stay. But hey, I was told that at about 4 weeks, they will leave their nest, and so they did. God forbid. As they left one by one, I did worry that they were not strong enough, not ready, but of course they stood eager & steady. The baby did not stand alone for long. I watched him like tv, what a tough cookie.