FAIL.

The print by Archie Proudfoot that hangs inspirationally above my desk.

Hello dear reader - welcome to Wednesday Weekly.

This last 10 days have been somewhat overwhelming, for many reasons.

I'm typing this with a raging chest infection and virus, but with fond memories of a wonderful 40th Birthday weekend away this past weekend, and the culmination of over a year of admin, emails, and an incredible amount of work finally resulting in a stamp on my US visa and my US social security number being issued.

The work involved in my authorisation to live and work in the US has been monumental. It's put me off ever moving country again (apart from the return to England)!

And there's no guarantee the relocation will work out.

I might fail.

We'll never know the outcome if we don't try, will we?

The unknowns often cause fear, and that paralyses our behaviours. The result is that we stay firmly in our comfort zone doing what we have always done.

And that's ok.

But it doesn't bring with it much of anything new. If you were to write a list of all the possible job opportunities in the world; musical instruments, and languages we could learn, and then check off the ones we have achieved, it would reveal just how much opportunity awaits for each of us.

And so it is at work, and at home: we put things off because we don't know how they'll turn out - even simple things like communicating with a partner; and miss out on yet other things when we don't try - like approaching something differently at work.

All new ideas, new products, better systems of working, and improvements in our relationships come from doing something differently.

Fail we may - but sail we must.

Happy Wednesday,

Jez

PS. My new podcast, 'And Who Shall I Say Is Calling?' launches later this month - take a look at what's to come.