If I Was Not Afraid

Today marks the launch of this website:

If I Was Not Afraid.

As it currently states on our Frontpage (this may change in future), I believe most of us are playing small. We live a life dictated too much by our current levels, current resources and current results. We lead a life dictated by our fears. Fears of anything that lives outside our comfort zone.

Fears about what others might say or think about us. Fears of us not succeeding if we even dared try do something a little more demanding of ourselves. Fears of become the laughing stock or of being a failure.

I, too, live this life, playing way smaller than I should. I too need to push myself to a whole other level.

My results have as of late been completely below par, or let’s just be honest: They have been absolutely non-existing. Well, non-existing by any measure of positive and productive results.

The problem with that is that it has already long been affecting my life negatively. Unfortunately, to make matters much worse, it not only affects me, but certainly also my wife and my children.

Every day has become a struggle.

It seems like this is the eleventh hour. Last chance to get things going. Last chance to push on forward hard in pursuit of getting some betterment of results. In truth, it’s not even the eleventh hour, it’s probably more likely one second to 12.

I dislike every second of this.

But at least I also realize that to make it change, it will have to be up to myself.

I caused this for better or worse. I attracted these lackluster results and this pain. By lack of doing or doing the wrong things. By not managing my own mentality, and energies. By not creating the bare necessities of what I needed to do.

Additionally, I blamed too many other people and hoped for too many other people to see things the way I did and to go along with my ideas.

For too long I expected certain things to come to order. Things that while my vision for them may still be absolutely probably and amazing, are not shared by those that I need to come along for it all to happen.

I should have let go sooner. But such is the folly of man sometimes. We cling on too long at times, and the consequences sometimes get to be severe.

Creating this website I’m hopeful that as I now embark on changing my results and as I make every endeavor to step up to the plate at a whole other level, it will provide inspiration and ideas for others to do the same. I’m hopeful this site and its content and hopefully its future receipt of engagement from visitors and participants, may serve to challenge you too, to play a bigger game.

My idea for this site was spurred on by a challenge too. Visiting the TC3 church in Stuart in South Florida recently, pastor Gordon Mularski challenged us all to play a bigger game. As he stated: “God, did not intend for us to play small”.

I agree.

I used to play a bigger game. But for whatever reason I kinda turned this off. I used to be successful. I used to create big results. Now, I’m suffering a total lack of even the tiniest of results.

The effect is many-fold and shows up in every aspect of my life. It’s destroying everything.

It’s about high time I change this.

This is the last call.

I’m embarking on this journey. I appreciate you coming along and I encourage you to look into yourself and ask yourself the question: “Am I also playing too small?”.

We all hold tremendous potential. But we let our fears hold us back. Hold us back even for the smallest of steps. What terrible waste that is.

Imagine what might be if we upped our game a bit. Imagine what may be accomplished if we just got over ourselves a bit. Let’s play a bigger game. Let’s create something bigger and better for us all.

Your positive advancement will for sure spread its rings like rings in the water when you throw in a rock. Your positive advancement will positively affect everyone around you.

You will honor yourself greatly. You will do great honor to your family. You will honor your creator.

I wish for us all to go forth steadfast and stay the course even when we get bugged by our fears. Let’s overcome these.

Let’s fear, but do it anyways.

(image for this post is kindly borrowed from TC3 church)