Thursday, February 25, 2016

Stopped dreaming, Started Doing

I'm a planner.  I'm terrible at making decisions.  I can be a perfectionist to a paralyzing extent.

The only things in life I recall doing "without a plan" include the real big decisions in life; the ones that were super hard to make, that I just had to close my eyes and jump in -- a few examples include transferring to Arizona State University 3,000 miles away from home, another example is when I bought a brand new car right after I graduated from Curry College; no cash down, 5-year loan. The third example that comes to mind, is moving here, to The Florida Keys, unemployed, without a solid housing plan, basically because my life was in turmoil and it seemed so crazy; I thought, it just might actually work!

Key West Childcare was a dream; for it to become reality I had to start doing and stop dreaming. This meant closing my eyes, and jumping in. Planning, decisions, perfectionism... all of that out the window.  Push through the fear and take the actions; understand I will make mistakes, I might be wrong and things are probably not going to go the way I'd like them; and most importantly, other peoples intentions are almost always good.

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