Preparing and Making it Inevitable

Preparedness and anticipation only have meaning in the event. If you don't make the leap, then all the studying, preparing and visioning are for naught, even time wasted. But they are necessary if you need to make a big leap, if you want increase your chance of success, and if you want to avoid jumping from chaos into a random void (kind of like the hyperspace button in the old Defender video game).

That said, you can paralyze your self in preparedness work, waiting to be sure. A change is 'leaving your feet' and with that a fundamental risk, the only thing you need is to be prepared enough to have the confidence in yourself and belief that you have the foundation to figure out the next improving step and make the change a success.

Don't Look Back

The mind needs to be filled and consumed with the target, the destination, the sucessful completion of the objective. That vision of success must burn bright and eliminate the shadows of doubt and fear that cause you to glance back. Reaching is watching the approach not the receeding. Make the orientation foward. As soon as seperation is initiated, its history, it can be learned from but can not be changed, treat your launch point the same.

Funny as it sounds, there must be a reason your eyes are in the front of your head and not in back.

Tempus Fugit too soon

Time flies and it does not wait, you don't catch up to it, you catch it as it whizzes by. Opportunities present themselves in time, like that brass ring on the old merry-go-round, you see it enough; you start to time it, you plan for its attainment, but you must be measured and quick, 'how many times have I been around?', 'how many left before its over?'. Different bases, but still time and its passing.

Time is a universal measure, even in change. How long for the change to take effect?, When will you be ready? How many days before you give up? What if it's a waste of time?

Opportunities are not always clearly presented like a brass ring. Sometimes it's a reach through a fog with a belief that its there. An exploratory spirit, with a persistence to achieve, and a willingness to adjust are needed for a leap. Because 'when the time is right', might be the time that just passed you right by.

Escape Velocity for Change

To achieve a paramount transistion from one basis or foundation to another you need to achieve an escape velocity. The force driving the change must exceed the pull of the familiar, the weight of the rut, the desire to reach must exceed the security of hanging on.

Doubt can be drowned out by potential, there are no knows that say you can't make it, no empirical truths that must be hurdled, only the forbearing of your mind, and the human gravitation to what 'is', none of which are absolutes or definitive of which there are no derivatives.

Even a wall, has a window to connect, visually, sensory, and at times physically to the other side, you only need to recognize the path for more opportunity than it initially appears.

Advancing by Leaps and Bounds

This is the start of a new life. I have reach a launch point, a critical mass, a point of transilience.

We all go through phases, some recognized as significant as they occur, some familiar as such on the occasion of reflection. The best are those that are anticipated, with energy and preperation garnered, like the coiling and tensing before a leap. This is a change managed, not being managed by change. A plan put to action and adjusted by working toward a goal and vision, but alas; not without risk and uncertinatly.

Persistance must be with me as I move through the challenges in taking over control of my own life, switching from influenced to influence.

...I only hope I've judged the distance to the next ledge appropriately...