Taking Risks

Pamela Slim, on her Escape From Cubicle Nation blog wrote a post a while ago on people being players on a stage. Her blog is primarily about getting away from the corporate world and starting a business for yourself. That’s enough incentive for me to read her writing.
Her recent article makes the call to adventure for those people ready to take centre stage. Centre stage is where the heroes stand in their stories. Your life is your story and you are the hero. And the best heroes always have the best stories. To be a great hero, though, requires risk. The risk that what you believe is not always going to make you friends. The risk that you have nothing to hide behind once you have decided to release your hero.
Pamela sums this up in one of her points from the post:

When you take great risks, you have the potential for great embarrassment. Can you think of anything worse than flashing your less-than-firm butt to thousands of jeering critics? When you choose to live your authentic life and speak your truth, it truly is an experience of being naked in public. And this is an extremely uncomfortable and vulnerable place to be. But it also is liberating when you realize that you have nothing to lose and everything to gain. So they don’t like your butt. Who cares? Once you are comfortable in your own skin, the fun begins.

So look inside to find your true hero and let them loose. Once that happens your story will begin in earnest and the only way is up.