I have started reading The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron recently, and if you know anything about it, you’ll know that it’s said to be completely transformative.

I’m definitely excited to see where it will take me, especially as I am already undergoing so much change as it is. It will be interesting to see how it helps me in my own writing, and who knows, maybe it will help my blog too.

In the coming weeks as I read through this book, I’ll do my best to write about how it’s going. Maybe it will inspire someone else to read the book, or to kickstart their own creativity.

Today however, I was inspired by this quote that she shared on page 2, ‘Leap and the net will appear.’

Personally, I love it. For most of my life, this idea would have been terrifying, but I feel as if the last three months have been full of utter transformation for me. I have alluded to it in some of my other posts, but this quote and book could not have come at a more perfect time.

Lately, it feels like all I’ve been doing is leaping into the unknown. Every single choice I’ve made and opportunity I’ve had has led me further and further from the life I knew. It’s terrifying and absolutely electrifying. As nervous as it makes me, I am so excited to see where life will take me.

Not knowing what my future holds challenges my sense of security, something that I once identified as one of my top values. Now however, with a new name, look, and well, everything else, this value is adapting.

I think part of the reason it took me so long to change is because I didn’t want to lose the sense of security that my life brought. I wasn’t happy with the way things were, but they were familiar, and that was enough. Until it wasn’t, and things had to change.

So here it is, the solution to my need for security and my desire to change. Leap and the net will appear.

In many ways, this is so true. Throughout my life, and especially in these last few months, every leap I’ve made has been scary and it has taken a lot of courage. In many instances, I did not have a backup plan if things failed. I had to sink or swim. Yet, in every instance, things had worked out. Not only well, but even better than I had imagined. For the first time in years, I am excited to see how everything will pan out.

There are always going to be challenges in life, and times when things don’t work out the way we want them too. However, like with this quote, we can still have hope that the ‘net’ whatever it may be, will appear when we need it. Even if it isn’t today, or tomorrow, or even this month. I know I’ve had my fair share of waiting, but I finally understand that there will always be another opportunity.

Life is not as short as people may joke, and there is always tomorrow if want you want doesn’t happen today.

I’m glad to have started this book, and to have found this new mantra. I hope that it would inspire you to take a leap of your own, to try something new and to trust that the net will appear, when and how it needs to.

Love ya,

CC