Circle of Trust

I want to start with this quote, “If you never take a risk you will never achieve your dreams.”

Last March, I finally decided to go after my personal training certification which I had thought about for the past 20 something years.  I always had told myself excuses like “you can’t do it” and “it’s a waste of time” and could hear my parents voice of “you’ll be an engineer because your good with math” and that’s “not a real job”.

So, I finally stopped letting my life be controlled by stories that others had told me or influenced my thinking.  I really enjoy it.  I said screw it and signed up for the NASM certification class and then passed the exam in September and began working part time as a trainer at the PARC center after new years.  I have been doing research and coming up with a strategy for my own personal training business over the last few months.  I will start it up in the next few weeks.  How will it end up?  I’m not sure but the one thing that I am sure will happen if I don’t try is nothing.

Life is short and I’ve spent half my life always worrying about trying the unknown path.  I stayed in a really bad situation in my ex for 17 years and was afraid of the unknow even though I was absolutely miserable in what seemed a hopeless situation.  I am finally pursuing a career doing something that I really enjoy.  I have done things over the past year or two that I never would do.  Small things like try sushi, ride a roller coaster, go zip lining and other smaller things.  You misse out so much by not taking chances and trying something new.

My challenge to you is to go out of your comfort zone and try something new this week.  Even bigger, is there something that you have found yourself thinking that you want to do for a long time but always talk yourself out of or let other talk you out of.  If its not illegal then I challenge you to try it.

Aye?