Ultimately, it is up to you. Up to you to decide: do I or do I not really, truly want to work towards that nagging dream, whatever it is. Learning something new, reaching a physical goal, creating something, organizing, sharing, bringing people together, or risking all for an adventure.

I’ve come to call it jumping off cliffs. I have jumped off a lot of cliffs: as a very shy person, making a living on a stage as a puppeteer, presenting in foreign languages, working and making connections in very far away places and totally unknown cultures, not to mention parenting. These are all decisions made to jump into the unknown, trusting that you will figure out what you need to know on the fly, and will land more or less intact, and that the next jump will be a little less scary.