There are certain times in life when you can make up for your lack of skill and experience with enthusiasm and unwavering persistence. Careful analysis, extensive training, care and concern for others involved and thorough due diligence are all necessary. But after that, at some point, you’ll have to make leaps without knowing every last thing. You then just have to jump on the bicycle and ride, climb the mountain and ski, start the business & work. It’s worth a try. And, in the long run, when the dust has settled and years have passed, whether you fail or succeed, you’ll never regret trying. 🚴🏽‍♂️🚴🏽‍♂️🚴🏽‍♂️

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🚩🚩🚩 The following quotes are pretty inspiring when it comes to this sort of thing:

“My life has been a path at the edge of uncertainty. Today I think we educate kids to be settled in a comfortable chair. You have your job. You have your little car. You have a place to sleep. And the dreams are dead. You don’t roll on a secure path. All of us should conquer something in life. And it needs a lot of work. And it needs a lot of risk. In order to grow and improve, you have to be there a bit at the edge of uncertainty. . . ‘There is a whisper on the night wind. There’s a star agleen to guide us. And the wild is calling calling. Let us go.’”

— Chef Francis Mallmann, Patagonia, South America.
(from interview on Netflix series “Chef’s Table”)

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”Only to the extent that a man exposes himself over and over again to annihilation, can that which is indestructible arise within him. In this lies the dignity of daring.”*

~ Zen teacher Graf Durckheim

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“To me, it’s really so simple, that life should be lived on the edge. You have to exercise rebellion. To refuse to tape yourself to the rules, to refuse your own success, to refuse to repeat yourself, to see every day, every year, every idea as a true challenge. Then you will live your life on the tightrope.”

– Philip Petit (wire walker who walked for 40 minutes back and forth between the twin towers on a steel cable that he and his accomplices stretched themselves in the middle of the night. They miraculously strung the cable by shooting an arrow from one rooftop to the other with fishing line and then pulling a rope and then steel cable across. Petit was 1,300 hundred feet above the ground as he walked between the towers and had no safety harness or net).

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“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”

~ Theodore Roosevelt

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“Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative and creation, there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too.

All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one’s favour all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance which no man could have dreamed would have come his way.
Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“The moment I jumped off of it was the moment I touched down.” – Alanis Morissette