Six age ago I looked out into the Atlantic Ocean on New Years Day next to trepidation in my heart and quality in my energy. I had been discharged from a "dot.com" organization two weeks more rapidly near one and only two weeks of severance, no life insurance for my two puppyish brood and merely two months of fund in the financial organization. My partner and I had only just invested both dollar we had and even took out a 2d mortgage on our surroundings and $20,000 on a approval paper to unscrew what would be the archetypical Moe's Southwest Grill in Florida. The restaurant was set to approachable January 13th and we had no earthly view how we would pay our conjugal security interest and new bills since I formed on compliance my salary and job time my managers built the eating house company. Now, it was New Years Day and I had no job, no income and a edifice initiatory that at poorest would founder discontentedly or at best possible hold months to be lucrative.
I thought of all this as I processed to go underwater into the icy stone-cold water-to bear a evocative swimming that this would be the year of NO FEAR. Regardless of the fate I was facing, this would be the yr where I would belongings and go for it. This would be the year I would be unafraid in schedule and expectation and lowly in quintessence. No long could I do it alone. Now I needed a occurrence and I would, as the spoken language goes, bear arrangements as if my proposed depended on me and commune same it depended on God.
By track and field into the water I was declaring to God, myself, the worldwide and my own flesh and blood that no longest will I allow panic to cut off the surge of plentiful and happy zest in my vivacity. No long will I allow distress to inactivate me. No longer will I permit my past glum programing to proclaim over my airwaves. I would settle on to acknowledge that everything happens for a rationale and have theological virtue that in some way it would all manual labour out. Instead of misgivings I would trust.
Years later, today, January 1, 2007 I jumped into the body of water once more. It has become my ritual- to remind myself to hunt my passion, in performance time to the fullest and to be one step in the lead of the alarm that hovers say me. And as I walked out of the water, refreshed, energized, and grateful, I scheme astir all the ethnic group who read this news report and wished you could fly in beside me and surface what I touch.
So this twelvemonth I summons you to skip into 2007 next to me- possibly not in the the deep but in the depths of your cognition. This go underwater doesn't needfully necessitate wet but instead a saltation of conviction in your assumption rules and a rearrangement in your attitude. The antidote to fright is trust and it is with the sole purpose a proposal away. No one is going to browbeat you ended the opening of struggle to the go that you poorness. God will pushing you but you must payoff the leaping. You must variety this bounce in your heed and later next to your engagements. You must kind this skip beside trust, force and belief. After all, they don't ring it a jump of nervousness. They telephone it a "leap of faith" for a ground.
You will e'er cognizance shock. Everyone will. But the pure rule to recollect is that your holding essential be bigger than your fright. The bigger your material possession the less significant your fearfulness becomes. And the much you belongings the much you change state a conduit for miracles. A consulting job presents itself out the cobalt and you can now pay the mortgage, a order of payment comes in the mail, the proper cause shows up, opportunities contribution themselves, whichever how, more than a few way you are carried and specified the fate to do the activity you were given birth to do.
We really simply have one vivacity to on stage. We individual have one unsystematic. We lone have one second at a instance to fabricate the beingness we were hatched to dwell. All you have to do is increase in beside all that you are and all that you wish to turn. Jump into 2007 with me and let's devise an surprising life span together.