I am truly honored. Something I said is featured on Empowered Quotes today.
Some Background:
After stumbling upon Think Simple Now, I read a few articles that hit home with me. I shared some thoughts with the author, Tina Su about my life over the past five years, how I’ve gone from being an employee and husband to being a single entrepreneur, doing something that was more meaningful and fulfilling.
At the time when I was having problems in my marriage, having problems working for a sociopath, compounded with other problems in my life, I had come to realize that there would be no easy fix to all of this. I realized that I needed to quit my job. That was priority #1 at the time. I didn’t have another job lined up. I wasn’t sure what would happen next but I felt secure. I would be all right with the support of family and friends, and my own abilities. I knew that I could forge a new path.
At some point, when you realize that the road your own is going to lead to your early demise, you become willing to take any other road regardless of where it might take you.
So my way of expressing that was to say, “The plane that I am on is going to crash, so I’m jumping, and something tells me that I will find a parachute on the way down.”
It was a weird feeling. Anytime in the past, I would have not taken a risk like that. Somehow I had changed. It was as if I had lost the ability to have feel fear. Put another way, maybe I had found courage. But I wasn’t sure what it was. I asked my friends, “Am I just going nuts? Am I doing something stupid? I need a reality check.”
I received overwhelming support. So I stood at the edge of the opening in the fuselage and jumped. It it was an exhilarating experience.
Tina Su is an amazing person with wonderful insights into how to live a great life. And her smile in her pictures on her site radiates enough warmth that I think we can let Al Gore know that we’ve found the cause of global warming. You have to put her on your regular reading list.
I’m amazed that she thinks that something I said deserves to have the company of the words of great people like Martin Luther King, Jr and the Dalai Lama! Wow!
Tina, thank you so much, I am truly honored, and you’ve made my day.
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Congrats! It seems like everyone reaches a point in their lives where the better choice is the more difficult choice…at least at first. I frequently use an analogy to ripping off a band-aid when friends need to hear something like your quote. I’ll be sure to pass this on from now on.
Thanks Sam, and I hope you’re making the less difficult choice of avoiding women dressed as leprechauns on this St. Paddy’s day.
I struck out with the leprechauns tonight & then I saw that picture of of Tina Su, so I thought I’d check out her website…only to see her wedding pictures! That was all I needed to see, I jumped right off that plane!!!
I admit to being a little heartbroken myself to see the announcement that she was married.