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That's best, Leo. Hi, my name's Andy, and welcome to Radio Headspace.
And a Monday morning. I don't know if your parents or whoever looked after you as a child ever asked you when you were young, what you wanted to be.
I was thinking back the other day.
I was chatting to my sister.
And I was thinking back to those days and sitting around the table with my parents as a kid.
And then asking me kind of what I wanted to be.
And it was a tricky time in our household.
There was a lot of tension between our parents.
It was just before they got divorced.
And I remember kind of the time I was constantly just trying to kind of make them laugh to sort of ease the pressure in their house, you know.
So the first answer I came out with was, I was going to be a priest, because I was the most unlikely candidate to be a priest ever.
And I think I knew it would make them laugh.
I laughed and they said, no, but seriously, like what are you going to be?
And I said, maybe a clown.
Again, because I thought it was a ridiculous thing to say.
Turns out, you know, I went on to become a monk and to join the circus.
So who knows? I sometimes wonder how much of life we decide and we choose ourselves and how much of life is kind of just happening anyway.
But it requires us to take a first step to be willing to try things that maybe feel outside of our comfort zone, that maybe scare us in some way, maybe we're worried about being, I don't know, feeling humiliated or making a fool of ourselves.
Someone asked me a few days ago, they said, so if I'm going to live a life and extraordinary life, you know, what do I need to do?
Is somehow at the answer.
I just have a very varied resume.
It's not an extraordinary life.
It's just a different set of things.
And they said, yeah, but you know, what's the thing that's kind of helped you the most in making those decisions in life?
And as I thought about it, it was actually retrospectively after the conversation.
I thought actually it is that a willingness to fail.
I don't even really relate to the idea of the word fail because I don't really think of that as life.
Life just unfolds and some things we like the results of, some things we don't like the results of.
People may interpret that as success and failure and everything else, but that's really just the commentary around the event.
There's nothing sort of objective about it.
And look, I've had a lot of practice in my life at sort of looking like a fool.
So in that sense, I had a head start.
You know, I played the fool a lot as a kid.
So I kind of minded less if things didn't necessarily work out quite as I anticipated.
But I think it's a really sort of healthy thing to focus on our life.
When we're trying to work out what we'd like to do, the things that I don't know, the things we always dreamed of doing, it's so easy to find excuses, reasons, why not to do them.
And some of them might be really big decisions as well.
There might be a lot riding on them.
And yeah, if we feel it, if we feel it inside, if there's a sense that that's the right thing to do, it's really helpful to examine what it is that's getting in the way, what it is that's preventing us from taking that next step.
And maybe just maybe it's that idea that what if it doesn't work out.
And I know that sometimes the implications of things not working out, especially once we have, you know, responsibilities, and perhaps families and work and everything else, they can be really considerable.
At the same time, living a life in which we're not feeling as though we are fully present, not fully connected, not fully integrated, perhaps without a sense of purpose and fulfillment, that can be equally challenging too.
So really take a moment, whether it's today, whether it's this week, to consider what it is you'd really like to do with your life.
Maybe you're in it, maybe you're doing it right now.
And that's wonderful, but maybe there's a change you want to make.
And maybe it's just about taking that next step, a willingness for in not to work out as you'd like it to, to expect it to, but also to know that doesn't necessarily mean that it's going to end badly.
It may even end up better than you imagined, but just in a different way.
Thanks for listening today.
I'll look forward to seeing you back here tomorrow.
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