You reinvent by doing things “you’”wouldn’t do, and in so doing you realize there is no fixed and permanent “you” at all. – Steve Chandler, Reinventing Yourself
Somehow, as grown-ups, we have talked ourselves into assuming that we can’t do anything we’re afraid of doing; that being afraid to do it is the same thing as being unable to do it. But a little practice just-doing-it shows us that this was a false assumption.
Action generates courage, not the other way around… All courageous people have fear. They just do things anyway, hollering with a combination of joy and fear, like Butch and Sundance jumping off the high cliff into the water below.
You will find, as you descend toward the water, there is a joyful rush. You’re feeling your fear while you are in action conquering it.
And as you continue in action, the fear dissolves, like a fist full of salt in the river. What remains for you is pure joy. It’s the joy of being someone you were not. That’s reinvention.
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