Slip, Fall, Get back up. Or not at all?

Striking your feet to the ground, step by step, you walk. There is ice under this thin layer of recently fallen snow, that you are trekking over, but somehow you are not slipping. You see footsteps of others who have walked this path ahead of you. You see the ice. It terrifies you; what if you fell? Falling isn't half bad, really. It's not terminal. But it sure does hurt.

In life we slip and we fall, but we have to decide how it affects us, how to deal with it, and if we are going to get off our asses and take a stand. Some of it is pure chance and luck, while the other half is our own beings and everything that we are.

"Everything you need is already inside." Nike 

Coincidentally, sometimes all it takes is 20 seconds of insane courage. 20 seconds that could potentially change your life. In the agility world, 20 seconds could be half of your run, parts of it, or maybe just walking up to the start line.

Although, maybe you're scared of the potential embarrassment.

"It's like you'll embarrass yourself if you say something, and you'll embarrass yourself if you don't." Dylan Mee, We Bought a Zoo

Either way, don't you think it would be worse to look back on the matter and wanting to kick yourself for not trying? Would you rather have the possible embarrassment then, or would you want to forever have all that embarrassment of not seizing the day, and taking a chance?

Adding to that, your past doesn't matter. This is a here and now thing. Carpe diem, seize the freaking day. I don't care about what you think might be holding you back, or your fears, doubts, thoughts; you can do this. Courage over fear. Mind over matter.

Now, you continue walking and you see other's falls, their slips, and marks on this path. The fear rises. The doubt sky rockets. 

The thing you don't see along that path is experience; the mistakes made and lessons learned. Nothing in this entire world can replace experience.

Courage isn't about not having fear, its about taking that first step even though you are shaking in your boots.