What would you do?

There is a quote that's been running around my head for the last few days. I wonder if you've heard it? It goes something like this... "What would you do if you knew you could not fail?" I know. It sounds like something you might find on a bumper sticker, or as a little caption in a calendar somewhere. It probably has featured on both of those items when you think about it. In any case, usually quotes don't stay with me. The last quote that stuck into my head was probably something related to a song like, "Dont worry, be Happy". You're welcome. Now you'll have that song stuck in your head for the rest of the day. Back to the quote- if you have kids, especially ones that have not hit the season of teenage angst, you can see the philosophy of this quote played out every day. For example, if I knew I would not fail, I would climb to the highest point in the tree in the park and JUMP! I would get on the computer and make a movie. I would ride my skateboard down the biggest hill I could find and I will go faster than the car coming behind me. I will be famous. I will be President (or Prime Minister).... You get the idea. At some point, and I'm not sure when, we become cautious. We might fail, actually...and sometimes that makes us afraid to try. It makes us worried that if we do try, we might fail and look really silly on the process. Sometimes the consequences of failure to successfully execute a dream are too frightening to consider. You might lose your savings, you might lose your job or you might even lose a relationship. So, we play it safe. We move into the next season of our lives sometimes thinking, "I could have been that...done that...or seen that". ....but there are times when we can't ignore the voice inside that urges us to be more than we are, bigger than we are or just less afraid of being who we are. It's the kid voice, the dreaming voice that believes we cannot fail if we try. It urges us on and we knock it back with many sensible excuses. But what if? What if....we did do something knowing we could not fail. What if we believed it? It just might be that amazing things could happen. That's what I've been thinking lately. Amazing things could happen when we do something big, in the knowledge that we will not fail. Big. Huge. Things. After all, wasn't it Edison who said something like he didnt fail 1000 times, but learned 1000 ways not to do something? Here's the challenge...do something today or tomorrow knowing that you cannot fail. If you don't get it right, think of it as an opportunity to learn how not to do it and try again. Let me know how it goes. Just be careful of those hills on your skateboard.