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Jump

As crazy as this sounds (unless you know me) I’m not as spontaneous and crazy as I try to appear to be. If someone throws a curveball at me I can very easily swing and miss because I don’t deal with surprises very well. I like the status quo that is my life and venturing outside of that sometimes seems like too much of a challenge to even bother with.

This has prevented me from a number of great opportunities in my lifetime and as much as I like to think that I am going to change and 2009 is the year I truly go where the wind takes me, I know it takes a bit of effort. With every big jump there are a ton of excuses my brain will toss at me and usually if I can get reach two quality excuses then that is reason enough not to follow through. However, what if I ignored them because I realized this is just the part of my brain trying to prevent me from doing something new (that isn’t life threatening of course)?

They say nobody knows you better than you and the problem with that is nobody knows how to convince yourself not to do something better than you. Nobody knows what excuses will work best on you, but you. Nobody is keeping you in place better than you. So just like you don’t listen to your parents or girlfriend, sometimes you can’t listen to yourself and you have to see what is out there.

In this economic environment maybe it isn’t the time to take chances, but maybe it is. If you are already losing out, then maybe there isn’t much more to lose so going for it won’t hurt. You can’t always be logical with your decisions. You can’t always lay out a pro vs. con list to weigh the issues. If someone comes to you and says lets go to Switzerland and your first instinct is “hell yes” then maybe you should go for it.

So take a chance. Jump. Of course make sure you have a parachute. I’m not giving you free reign to be an idiot you jackass.