Making the difference you were born to make

The interplay of choice, opportune moment and clarity

I recently had a conversation with a friend who is on the threshold of a new venture. He has worked hard to achieve the required qualification and experience. He wholeheartedly believes in it, knows he can make a difference but feels like a superhero without his cape. This and the accompanying emotions and thoughts are holding him back.

I asked him what the cape represented, and he said perfection.

Waiting for perfection is a tricky game. One that could have us waiting for a moment that may never come. Perfection has a way of morphing into something that may always be just beyond our grasp.

I realise doing something new can be challenging for anyone, me included. We can be filled with thoughts and emotions, doubt, fear, anxiety, and these can hijack us making us immobile, whilst hoping for perfection to show up.

The thing about doing something new and making a difference is that it requires courage. And courage takes effort and pushes us to use resources beyond our comfort zone.

I asked my friend what if he found his cape only after he leaped, and it got him thinking.

Choice, Kairos, and Clarity

Choosing courage is facing the discomfort of the myriad of emotions and thoughts, managing the unknown yet leaping. Choosing comfort is the easier option but it gives us a false sense of security.

My friend had worked hard for this moment. Everything that he had done before this was to get to this point. He had arrived at a fork in the road with two possible options — leap or stay, courage or comfort.

The fork introduces another dimension, timing. What the Greeks call Kairos, an opportune moment for action. The fork represents a critical moment upon which something special happens. The moment when there is a knowing that it is time. The moment when we choose courage.

I realised from my conversation with my friend that his moment was near.

As he chooses courage and moves forward, he will gain clarity, confidence and find his cape as a result of choosing courage. Sometimes action precedes clarity and waiting for all the pieces to fall into place just delays what you were born to do.

If you are about to venture anew, something you have worked hard at and prepared for, but find yourself looking for your cape, stop. You will find your cape along the way by doing what you were born to do, embracing your uniqueness, in making a difference.

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