I’ve talked before about taking risks and stepping outside your comfort zone, so today I put my money where my blog is and did just that.
I sent an email to the Oprah show asking to be on during their final season.
It was definitely outside my comfort zone, but I knew I would regret NOT doing it. One of my four major life goals is the be on her show. In my head I was thinking I would have developed a serious following as a happiness and laughter guru first, but since this is her “farewell” season, I figured I’d run out of time and it had to be done now.
It is a risk because I am not that laughter guru yet, I am not exceptionally well known, except by my clients and those of you who read this. Yet when I think that Justin Bieber was an ordinary person not that long ago, I have a little hope.
All it takes is one significant event after years of hard work to be an “overnight” success.
I’ll be honest, being on the Oprah show would do wonders for my exposure, but that’s not the reason why I did it. Looking deep within myself I had to ask myself why was I really doing this, and the answer was: because I told myself I would.
I made a commitment to myself in writing some time ago concerning my four life goals and when I first heard that this would be Oprah’s last season I had two thoughts. The first was “ah darn, I guess that one won’t be possible”, the second was, “unless I ask.”
It never hurts to ask.
I have no idea what will happen with this, but now, at the very least I know I took action to try and make it happen, I did something, and that is what counts. No matter what we feel or think, it is ultimately what we do that makes us who we are.
So I did it.
My challenge to any who read this is simple: do something today that you know deep down you want to do or need to do, but it’s just that little bit outside your comfort zone.
Until the next time, keep laughing, and taking those little leaps of faith.