Leap of Faith
If you have ever been a child, raise your hand! Yep, we’ve all been children, some of us longer ago than others! Have you ever considered what it would be like to harness your childlike sense of “I can do anything”? Think about it. As children we weren’t afraid of “no.” As children we didn’t see challenges as stops, but merely fun things to work our way around. Yet, somewhere along the way we decided that in order to commit to anything, we’d better know how to do it first. We became worried about looking bad or making a wrong decision. We began taking ourselves way too seriously, and in the meantime we adults have practically nailed our feet to the floor… stopping ourselves from playing full out all because we are afraid of committing to anything, without first knowing “how!”
So, do you want to give up having to know how to do something before you will commit to it? Give up that knowing how to do something means anything! As adults we have taken on a way of being where we have to have the answer and know how to do something before we will commit to doing it, and forget our doing anything that could possibly make us look bad! Children, on the other hand, commit first and the “how” just shows up. They aren’t worried about looking good. Children aren’t worried about doing it right. They simply step up to the plate committed to making whatever they want happen, and it does!
Where does the unstoppable, committed mindset of a child originate from? It comes from who they are being. Think about it this way: We do what we do, in order to have what we have. But, it is in who we are being, while we do what we do in order to have what we have, that is the difference between being outrageously, unstoppably committed or not. This level of commitment requires passion and purpose and the ability to be with “I don’t know,” which opens the door for you to:
Discover and learn how!
Ask for the help you need!
Get it done!
Being with "I don't know" is a catalyst for learning and team building. It is key to your ability to commit without knowing how, and getting what you say you want!
Remember: Commitment has nothing to do with knowing how.
On September 12, 1962, President John F. Kennedy pledged billions of dollars to send human beings to the moon, saying:
” My fellow citizens . . . we shall send to the moon, 240,000 miles away from the control station in Houston, a giant rocket more than 300 feet tall, the length of this football field, made of new metal alloys, some of which have not yet been invented, capable of standing heat and stresses several times more than have ever been experienced, fitted together with a precision better than the finest watch, carrying all the equipment needed for propulsion, guidance, control, communications, food and survival, on an untried mission, to an unknown celestial body, and then return it safely to earth, re-entering the atmosphere at speeds of over 25,000 miles per hour, causing heat about half that of the temperature of the sun… and do all this, and do it right, and do it first before this decade is out.”
The NASA engineers on that day in September have written that they had no idea how to accomplish that commitment declared by our President—a man on the moon by the end of the 1960s. No idea. It would require materials and technology not yet conceived of, let alone tested. Yet, the power of that commitment, embraced by our scientists, created a new reality. They did it, and they did it on time!
So, what are YOU committed to?