Thank you for joining us for our 7 day a week, 7 minutes of wisdom podcast. This is Day 40 of our Trek, and today we are going to learn how to land on your feet when you step off the cliff.
Today we are recording our podcast from our studio at Home2 in Charlotte, North Carolina. Paula and I are settled back into our routines in North Carolina and focused on the client work that keeps us busy each day. Preparing for this daily podcast and journal continues to go well, but it does require a significant amount of time each day. It is our goal to get a couple of weeks of episodes prepared in advance if possible. It may take us a while to reach that goal.
Today as we consider the topic of stepping or maybe even slipping off a cliff, we need to consider how we are going to handle it in advance. Taking risks and the changes it brings, can be intimidating, even scary for some. Life is about having the faith to move forward, even when the path ahead is not clear or solid. To grow in wisdom, we need to gain the confidence to continue as we take one more step, even when the trail before us is shrouded with fog, and we cannot see our way. During those times, it is easy to lose our footing and not know how to recover.
So, let’s break camp and continue on our trail of life. Visualize we are hiking up a long, winding trail on a beautiful mountainside. The flowers are wafting their summer scents through the warm air. The hummingbirds are darting to and fro, seemingly effortless in their flight. The path is not smooth, but the rocks do not hinder your progress. Occasionally, a tree limb or root causes a short detour. We navigate around these minor obstructions and get back onto the path, winding its way to the peak.
As you round a sharp corner in front of you the trail suddenly narrows. As you place one sure foot in front of the other, there is a drop off that appears before you. There is sheer rock below you for hundreds of feet. It startles you as a few loose pebbles finds its way down into the apparently bottomless span before you. Then one of your feet slips, and you start to tumble.
