We all have risk and either we embrace it or do everything in our power to avoid it. Imagine the playground where a group of children are jumping off the top of the monkey bars and then there are the few who stand at the edge pacing waiting for the school bell to ring so they do not have to jump.
I want to encourage you to JUMP! Not in the sense of physical, mental, or spiritual harm but to really jump back into a childlike state and use your imagination, create, and innovate right where you stand. Ken Robinson states the risk of imagination eloquently, be prepared to be wrong. When you are prepared to risk, be wrong, and basically stand there looking like an idiot you are onto something!
Society has taught us to no longer within our natural gifts but to test out in an educational standard. Highly successful people have bunked the standard and create success by risking standing alone. The risk takers are the ones you watch rise to the next level, the risk takers are the ones who are creating original ideas.
When you are prepared to imagine, innovate, and risk within your gift set you are no longer living within a standard of average! ~ Tracy Worley
*Take time out and reflect on your life, career, and significance your natural gifts offer the world.
*Reflect on what you loved doing as a child (natural gift).
*Reflect on all of those assessments you have taken over the years (natural gift).
*Reflect on your voice of doubt, do it afraid, do it anyway.
* Reflect on discipline in your daily agenda, are you taking time to risk.
*Reflect on the ideas popping into your head and write them down, some will make sense and some will not.
Step forward with one of the above where clarity comes through and start moving forward without knowing how, details, or held up in the paralysis of perfection.
You are meant to have a life and career of significance so embrace your natural gifts, talents, wisdom, and knowledge to create original ideas. Look back in history and innovation, most of those who risked standing alone where mocked but now we have light bulbs after ten-thousand tries, we have flight because the Wright Brothers believed with imagination, risk, and perseverance it was possible.
Society standard of average is not where you are valued. Create value by standing alone in the edge of the monkey bars and JUMP!
Look UP & OUT!
Tracy Worley
