Everything you want to do in life has to be learned.
“[insert whatever it is you want to do] but I don’t know how.”
Well, guess what, neither did every single person who did it for the first time.
To chase your dream you have to get started and learn as you go!
You can see may not know how you will achieve your dream now, but you need to start right away. You’ve got to take the leap anyway, and take it on faith that you will land on your feet.
As you are working towards your dream, you will see things come to you to help you on your way. You will learn some things that come to you from seemingly out of nowhere that you will learn “on the fly”.
Figuring things out on the fly is a learned skill and will take a few, or several tries to get the hang of it. The more often you take the leap, any leap, without knowing exactly where you’re going to land, the better you get at it.
Plus, each time makes you better equipped to leap again and again and again. Learning to operate at a high level within unknown scenarios is more valuable than learning a specific set of skills for a specific situation.
Prepare yourself mentally for being unprepared.
You can never anticipate the exact skills you will need until you need them. In fact, you don’t know what you don’t know until you find out you don’t know it.
You’re going to hit roadblocks. Expect them.
Also expect to crash through those roadblocks to the other side, too.
Expect challenges and expect setbacks.
They are coming for you and will help you on your journey, so be prepared mentally.
Go in fighting, not retreating.
Keep your eye on the goal and nothing will stop you.
If you look only at the obstacles, you will never get far. You will probably not even get started.
Think about this, your entire life you have been flying by the seat of your pants in one fashion or another.
Don’t stop now. When they tell you to seize the day, they don’t mean tomorrow – they mean TODAY.
Take the leap, because you got this!
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