At Least Try

Remember when all else fails, TRY. You can not go through life projecting what might happen in a situation, scaring, intimidating, laughing yourself right out of living. Trying rarely costs a great deal. A little research, maybe a small purchase of some equipment and time.

Trying can become scary or intimidating because it often happens around parts of your life you either have little or no skill, you are frustrated and dissatisfied with or you do not believe you are good enough to compete.

Do this:

1. Write a list of 3-4 things that you are dissatisfied with or want to know more about. Name it "Dissatisfied"

2. Write down in short bullet points why you feel the way you do about those items

3. Make another column next to that list and name it "What I can Do"

4. Now list what time, treasure or talent you currently posses that could bring immediate solutions to this list. Challenge yourself to really think hard and truly list all that you can do right now! This is your TRY area. You can TRY these things immediately to bring the dissatisfied column forward into a satisfied level.

5. List those actions that are beyond you. What help, money, or time do you need that you might have to ask for, earn or build toward

6. Give yourself a deadline. A SMART (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant and Timely) Goal to move on the list of Dissatisfied and never tried items.

Determine to make a change, the small investment, time or talent and get it done. Once you take the first step out the door the adventure of "TRY" will meet you and teach you that trying only introduces you to a life worth living that you can meet head on.


"The Road goes ever on and on down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the Road has gone, and I must follow, if I can, pursuing it with eager feet, until it joins some larger way where many paths and errands meet. And whither then? I cannot say.”
- J.R.R. Tolkien