Why Sometimes You Just Gotta Jump

I remember the day vividly.

It was on January 21st, 2016.

It was almost four months to the date where I walked away from my six-figure corporate career.

Someway or another I came across a video that elicited so much pure excitement, happiness, and tears that I couldn’t resist but to pass it on to others.

That video was “Jump by Steve Harvey.”

In it he describes how each and every one of us have a unique opportunity to tap into our truest gifts.

He mentions how we all have them, no matter whether one is able to fully see it or not.

It truly is God given, and it’s our responsibility to dedicate our lives to seeing that it’s actualized.

The most moving part of the video for me was when he mentioned that at some point or another, if we’re truly going to live the life of our dreams, we’re going to be required to jump.

You see anything that comes easy is not truly worth working towards.

Society trains us to go the conventional or safe route. It exclaims to us that if you can make great money in a stable 9-5 job, receive top notch benefits, and the notoriety of working for a well respected organization, then what else could you possibly need out of life?

At least this was apart of my story and thought process growing up (and I know many others share this way of thinking too).

I literally felt chills down my spine after watching that video for the first time.

The reason being was because I had recently just “jumped” myself.

While not 100% clear of what the path at that time was going to lead to, I knew it was required to take my next best step.

I was no longer tapping into my hearts center with the work I was doing, which with time kept building stronger and stronger.

This led me to consciously making the decision to leap into the path of the unknown.

I was scared, excited, and anxious with where I was at.

Most of my family and friends thought something was wrong with me.

However there were some who really supported me and showed through their actions that they believed in what I was doing.

You see each and every one of us is capable of greatness.

Greatness doesn’t have a certain skin tone, net worth, geographical location, or family upbringing.

No matter what our previous story has led us to in the current moment, it’s up to us to actively create a new reality that coincides with that of our most intimate dreams.

How would you show up if you were to live fearlessly?

What actions would you take from this state of being?

What prevents you from doing it now?

You see there’s always innately a built in excuse that we can give ourselves for anything.

Rather it be finances, time, or just a lack of commitment.

We hold ourselves back from our greatness but tend to find or lean on aspects outside of ourselves as being the culprit for it.

Or better yet, we proclaim that we know exactly what to do, but we lack the “discipline” to do it.

One of the toughest challenges with discipline is that you have to be extremely clear on what’s on the other side of that consistent effort.

If you don’t go into any new endeavor with a burning desire or higher meaning as to the “why” in which you’re doing it, then it’s easy to give up when you’re inevitably punched in the face (which happens to all of us in the attainment of any goal).

Then there’s the other half too; the paralysis analysis of spending so much time in your head that you never take the first action step.

I admittedly struggle with this sometimes.

As an introvert and intuitive, I can get lost in the pure excitement of inner visualizations and contextual pattern connecting.

I absolutely love mapping out all the different scenarios that certain actions would lead to (in my head).

I can see with the clearest spec of clarity, how and when certain roadblocks may appear, and what I strongly feel said actions ultimately lead to.

The toughest part sometimes is taking the next step though. Naturally when your mind operates this way, you’re a bit slower to make decisions.

However the key benefit and saving grace with the decisions that you do make, is that they’re well thought out and solid.

We’re always making conscious decisions, at each and every moment.

What we focus our thoughts on, who we surround ourselves with, the amount of time we spend doing certain activities, and the present state in which we live, is a direct culmination of the actions we’ve taken up until this point in time.

Insanity is doing the exact same thing over and over and expecting a different result.

It’s akin to loving yourself, each and everyday.

You choose to compassionately appreciate and treat yourself with the pure and divine love that your heart truly deserves and desires, then that’s the default state you’ll naturally fall back into at difficult times.

The key is doing it everyday.

It’s a full-time, no days off kind of a job.

There’s countless external objects, including advertisements and subliminal marketing messages, that’s whole purpose is to keep us in a state of separation to our most authentic selves.

When we’re not connecting to our deepest core, then we’re more easily distracted and prone to be dependent upon material possessions for our perceived happiness.

We buy stuff.

We follow the American Dream of consumerism.

This becomes a rat race to us.

The more money we make, the nicer and larger things we buy.

The home, the car, the latest and greatest new electronic devices; we “deserve” them and life wouldn’t be complete without them (we tell ourselves).

Now there’s absolutely nothing innately wrong with any of the aforementioned items above (or anything else for that matter).

The issue is when our self worth is directly altered by anything outside of ourselves.

We’re already enough just by being born into this world.

Our beautiful souls are magnificent and deserving of any and everything that truly aligns with our hearts.

The key is to always remember to unabashedly choose to love yourself throughout all the highs, and especially at the perceived lowest times too.

So that when we do make the decision to jump, our fall is cushioned with an abundance of sincere and compassionate self-love, that’s greatly needed to openly welcome and embrace the unknown but magical journey with a fortuitous smile.

With Love,

Brandon