I want to share a simple reminder: You don’t have to be great to start but you have to start to be great.  I love this.  As I work through transitioning fields and projects, I realize how much I held back out of perfectionism and the desire to be liked—and the desire to “take off” immediately.  Having the time off from work that I did a few weeks ago changed a lot for me in regards to this.  It has nothing to do with being liked, it has to do with being relatable.  We have all had moments of starting.  We need humility in order to learn and to grow.  We need courage to be novices.  We all have a jumping off point.  No one starts off knowing all the answers or how to do anything 100%.   

There may have been a ton of things we wanted to do in this world.  How many of them have we pursued?  How many have been put to the back burner?  How many have been forgotten because we took a safer path?  I know that I don’t want to live a life questioning what it would have been like had I gone after something.  At the end of the day, it isn’t about being great, it’s about what we’ve done on the journey that feels great.  Did we make great use of our time?  Did we share and create great love?  Did we share great ideas?  Did we create great opportunities in our lives?  None of this has to do with what others define as great.  It has to do with what feels right for us and going after what makes greatness in our own lives based on our own definitions.  Don’t ever let fear tell you what you can and cannot do.  Screw the definition of greatness and perfection: live messy and wild and to the greatest capacity we have.  That is greatness.  Start today.