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‘A LEAP INTO THE UNKNOWN’ Nine months ago I decided to make a life change, to live out my dream of living in Brazil and Italy. Decided is a strong word, but the seed was planted to see it through when a friend dared me to say aloud a dream I had inside of me that very few people know… “What’s something you’ve always wanted to do that no one knows about it?” Like a secret bucket list.. you know the one’s we don’t dare say out loud for fear of looking foolish because they are “crazy” and “unrealistic”… aka never going to happen but I’ll keep saying “one day” to make myself feel ok about it… Saying it out loud that night sparked something in me. What if I did do it… I started to think about how, when and what I’d have to do to make it happen. I was both terrified and excited by the idea, and that meant I had to do it. When something excites you to the point that you want to do back flips over the thought, and makes you want to hide in a corner from fear of failure (or whatever else we make up in our minds)…you have to do it. That is your calling that is your life that is waiting for you! It’s not easy to make leaps. So I sat with it for a while, going back and forth talking myself in and out of the idea. It’s terrifying to leave the security of what we’ve built for ourselves for a dream… I had a high level job, good salary, my parents and my sister who I love… and in Brazil I knew no one. I knew very little aside from the fact that when I was there my soul felt alive. It took three months to really decide to jump but I did it. I saved the money. I quit my job, started consulting and working for myself, and then I booked that one way ticket I’d dreamed about doing for so many years. Boarding a one way flight was surreal. I cried tears of joy, of pride in myself for seeing a dream come to life. My friend at High Society shared a quote he received from a friend that spoke to my heart. So rather than try to explain the why, what, how.I think this sums it up for now: “I said that one’s calling may have an expiration date, and it’s important to be open to a modification towards a new, more relevant calling if and when it appears on the horizon. If we stay locked on the current calling past it’s relevancy, well feel a little ‘off’, antsy, or uncertain.. we’ll get that gnawing feeling that keeps us up at night. We may even feel guilty that we’re not appreciative of all the things we have amassed-but when it comes to callings, it really doesn’t matter what came before. The nature of a calling requires us to not rest on our laurels, and to be nimble and trusting enough to leap out of the status quo and back into the unknown.” I couldn’t have said it better. Find the people who challenge you to be your best self, make the big leaps, live out your wildest dreams, root for you with great enthusiasm every step of the way, and who are so excited to see you do it-that they just might actually burst with joy. It’s terrifying to leap into the unknown, to be so completely outside of our comfort zone-but I also know that is where the magic happens. The societal norms and values that embrace our culture has retained its pace. I enjoy the taste of the wine of Rome.Relinquish it with relief. I start out bursting with my adventures as pleasure. The sights and sounds fill the air. Ask the questions of yourself that require yourself to step outside your comfort zone, to move closer to the person you really are, and the reason you’re really here. Life is for living, loving, and leaping the biggest of leaps and that’s exactly what I intend to do every chance I get.