Enjoy Your Ride ....Even If It Scares You!

The happy smiling faces of my pansies!

I am always talking about paying attention in life..watch a butterfly, cuddle a puppy, taste some cous cous or travel to exotic locations! Experience life to the fullest and feel every moment. Be present in your own life! The thing is if you get complacent  you may miss an opportunity.  We all know that not every opportunity belongs to us because we have choice.  But some of them are meant to wake us up or change our lives in some way.

I am not talking about just the once in a lifetime opportunities that you know you must accept.  I am talking about the small forks in the road, or the subtle nuances in life that may direct you to an unchartered path.  The unchartered path does not scare me. It excites me.  I had to figure that out along the way. We all feel fear and some of us push through the fear and some of us stay in the fear. That fear can stop us from realizing our true potential.

A few blogs ago I talked about writers facing their fears by writing the absolute worse scenario around their deepest fears. I admitted, I am not a big fan of flying...but I do it anyway because the world would be way too small for me, if I did not. Facing my fear is simply getting on the plane and going where I want to go!  What if that fear got in the way on a particular day and there was a producer in the next seat next to me looking for new material for a movie. What a missed opportunity for a writer!

I don't want to "what if" myself out of life.  I don't want to hold back because of fear. I want to look life square in the eyes and be ready for the next chapter with open arms and more importantly, an open heart.