Throw Your Head Over the Fence

Throw Your Head Over the Fence

I loved it when Ria (my training partner and mentor) first shared this expression with me.

It’s an expression that means going ahead before you know exactly how you're going to get there.

Committing before you’ve figured out how.

It reminds me of how I sometimes think my life works, and how it actually works.

Every time I get stopped by the thought, "I need X before Y can happen," I like to remember that with all the great things in my life, I went for it before I had the perfect plan.

I went before I knew how it would work, how long it would take, how difficult it would be, how much it would cost, how people would react, or how anything would actually work.

When I chose to become a professional dancer, I had no idea how I would make it work. But I did.

When I chose to stop teaching and go full-time into performing, I didn’t know how it would work. But it did.

When I was 11 years old and said I would become a beekeeper, I didn’t have a clue how it would work, but I figured it out.

When I decided to become a coach and do my training at iPEC (the institute where I was trained), I committed even though I was $12K short of the $12K I needed for the training. And I did it.

When I chose to buy the ring 2 weeks after meeting my wife, Jae, and proposed to her 2 weeks later, I had no clue how our marriage would work, if she would say yes, or how easy or difficult it would be. And here we are, happily married 3.5 years later.

When I chose to run my first retreat, I didn’t know how to fill it, but I did.

I could go on and on.

So many times, the thing that stops me is not knowledge, but courage.

So many times, the thing that stops my clients is not knowledge, but courage.

We are so scared of getting it wrong that we totally forget how far we’ve come and how often we have no clue but have figured it out anyway.

We are way more resilient, creative, and capable than we think.

So, throw your head over the wall.

As long as you keep playing, you’re going to make it work.