We make the mistake of wanting ourselves or our circumstances to be as perfect and complete as possible before we begin.

They never will be.

What’s more important is to embrace our heart and go.

We have to follow the dreams which have come to us as we’ve opened our hearts.  When we speak of changing our minds, it’s tantamount to saying, “On this occasion, as you’ve put these things to me, I’m prepared to have a change of mind.”  When we speak of changing our hearts, though, we speak of the very way we’re led through life being altered towards something permanent.

Our minds tell us all kinds of things.  T3’s founder Gay Gaddis counsels: “You need to learn how to shut out the noise so you can get clear on how you feel and what you think and then you can do the hard work.”*

What we’re talking about is integrity, connecting who we are inside with who we’re with and where we are on the outside: ‘When you come to know yourself, you come to yourself and your life flows more naturally.  And you become more integrated,your integrity deepens.  You inhabit the heart of your life; you become the real subject of your life rather than being its target or victim.’*

There’s no such thing as perfect and complete, but there is the possibility of trusting and following your heart.

More important than waiting for perfect is to find your community of knowing, the people who’ll support you when you jump, the ones who get it because they know they must jump too.

‘Creating the future does not begin with a plan.  It begins with a dream.  And when someone acts on a dream, it creates a spark.’^

(*Quoted by Brené Brown in Daring Greatly.)
(**From John O’Donohue’s Eternal Echoes.)
(^From Alex McManus’s Makers of Fire.)