Unknown
The
is
Our Friend Terry Sidford
IT
is human instinct to want
But what if you walk into the unknown
to
that
afraid and with arms folded, and not
happens around us, but we
wanting to go there? You would be so
cannot. The earlier we understand that
contracted and have a narrow view of
and identify what we can and cannot
what is there. Thus, it would be best if
control, the more stable and confident we
you were open and ready to receive
will be to face the unknown. If you were to
something new and unknown for it to
tell me ten years ago that the unknow is
happen.
control
everything
my friend, I would have questioned it. Why is the unknown our friend? What if you changed your perspective of
Here is what happened in my life when I started to welcome the unknown and step into places I had never gone before.
the unknown from something unsettling
I had been coaching clients for over
or scary to something that provides
15 years and became curious about
new opportunities? If you think about it,
the people who experienced adversity
growing and creating new possibilities
and became stronger vs. people who
happen in the present moment. When you
buckled and never recovered. I was
walk into the unknown with excitement
telling my friend Colleen about this over
for what is possible with arms wide open,
coffee one day, and she blurted out, “You
you will create things you never dreamed
should write a book about this.” I said,
possible.
“A book, I can’t write a book.” Colleen
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