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Groping moves you forward when you’re low-down. Winging it involves a launch and a rush on a dare. When the research piles up and speculation gets old, get real.

Learn from a test that demands your best.

Nothing informs like a foray into the real world. So hike up your socks, strap on the wings, curl your toes over the edge of the cliff and do what you’ve been working yourself up to do. You’ll never, ever get where you want to go – that mesmerizing spot at the horizon of your dreams – unless you take a chance, unless you ditch the blueprints and try out the apparatus.

You have to risk a splat to change the scenery.

Harsh, but true. You do love yourself enough not to try out your wings off a cliff so high you’ll fall hard enough to give up, right? Wing it in ways that allow you to splat and still walk home. What you learn from the fall will give you courage and data and ideas about how to make the next launch better, safer, faster, higher, more thrilling, and more breath-taking.

Repeated falling inspires repeated flying.

{ PEP TALKS deliver a bracing blast of Grace }

Flickr photo: Sense of Something Coming, by lepiaf.geo.

Related reading: Oops! Wrong Limb, Hero Practice

This was written by ownerceo. Posted on Tuesday, March 31, 2009, at 12:15 am. Filed under Pep Talks. Bookmark the permalink. Follow comments here with the RSS feed. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.

3 Comments

  1. Emily-Sarah wrote:

    What beautiful permission your words give (or more aptly, demand — in a pure and loving way). Yes, we need to try our wings more often, realizing that the more we use them, the stronger they’ll get (and the farther we can fly). Thanks also for the reminder that some early ultra-short (!) flights are also just fine on the path for cross-country soaring.

    Tuesday, March 31, 2009 at 5:31 am | Permalink
  2. jo martin wrote:

    How timely this is!

    I’ve jumped off several cliffs in my day and lived to enjoy/appreciate the results. Just yesterday I realized: no cliff jumping for too long. Must. Jump. Off. Cliff. Soon.

    And here you are! Thank you for the nudge and the encouragement!

    Tuesday, March 31, 2009 at 7:13 am | Permalink
  3. Grace Kerina wrote:

    Happy soaring, you two. (Nudge. Nudge.)

    Tuesday, March 31, 2009 at 2:34 pm | Permalink

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