Like An Eagle-Soar

There is only one way to get started, and that is just DO IT! Last spring I watched a mother bird teach her young to fly less than 3 days after their birth – I saw a few ruffled feathers too. The amazing thing was that those baby birds had no clue what they were doing, but by the end of the day they were flying!  Oh how obvious their determination was to me.

You and I don’t have to be any different – they spread their wings and after falling and bumping into things a few times, off they went.

I don’t know why, but I am the queen of procrastination at times. This little blog may become just the beginning of bigger things to come in the near future, and the point is……………..I just jumped right in and did it.  Finally, after how long?  After writing and storing the little tips and articles.  I started feeling like I was rich with material that no one was going to read.  Glad I finally got to it – hope you will be to.

“Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.”  Victor Hugo

Have you ever caught yourself neglecting to follow a dream because you were afraid to get out on the “skinny branches”?  I have.  It could have been fear, lack of self confidence, lack of commitment to a project – OK, all of the above at one time or another.  I’m not perfect.

Did you ever watch a bird land on one of the smallest, almost invisible, branches on a tree, and wonder why she didn’t break the branch and fall?  Instead she just sits there and sings a beautiful song.  Sometimes the bird song can seem almost endless and there she sits and just sings and sings.  She knows the branch won’t break, and that little bird doesn’t even come close to fearing that the branch will break because she has wings.  She sings because she knows that whenever she is ready, she can spread her wings and fly.   

Next time you have a dream, remember that little bird.  You see, we have wings too, and far too often, we forget that.