Aim High ... or at least a little higher than you think you can

Marc Chagall says that the world is transformed when we speak the word “love” without embarrassment. Whenever I’m working with someone to figure out what they are really about or really want to do in the world, I can usually tell we’re getting to the real answer when they get a sheepish grin on their face. It’s typically after they’ve gone through the answers they think they are supposed to have, or the answers dictated by their current role or expectations on and for themselves. And I think both the sheepishness and the grin are telling. The sheepishness is because somewhere we get the idea that we’re not supposed to stand out or make important things happen. The grin is because we get a glimpse of actually making something big and important happen. Whatever that thing is you’re after, that thing that makes you grin, however big or small, go ahead and try.