Wake Up to Your Own Life

I received a video today from one of my clients. It was the recording of her skydiving experience.

I watched as she stood at the open door of the plane, thousands of feet above the ground. The wind tugged at her jumpsuit, her face was filled with fear, excitement, and uncertainty — and then, she jumped.

No more planning.
No more preparing.
No more waiting for the perfect moment.

Just living.
Just choosing.

Watching her leap made me realize how often we live our lives standing at that open door. We talk about change. We plan for it. We dream about the day we’ll be ready. But at some point, the talking has to end. At some point, we have to decide to live.

It’s easy to believe that if we plan hard enough — if we gather more information, line up all the right pieces, think it through just a little longer — we’ll eventually step into the life we want without fear, without risk, without discomfort.

But it doesn't work that way.

Life doesn’t happen in the planning. Life happens in the doing. Life happens when you move, even when you’re not 100% ready.

Choosing aliveness doesn’t mean acting recklessly or abandoning responsibility. It means refusing to numb yourself out of your own life. It means deciding that feeling afraid, excited, challenged, hopeful — feeling anything — is better than feeling stuck.

You don't wake up to your life all at once. You wake up one brave choice at a time.

It might look like saying yes to an opportunity that scares you. It might look like admitting what you really want, even if it feels vulnerable.
It might look like making the first move, having the hard conversation, signing up for the thing you think you’re not ready for.

One choice leads to another. One decision to be fully alive makes the next one a little easier.

And over time, those moments add up. You build a life that feels colorful, real, and deeply yours — not by thinking about it, but by living it.

If you’re feeling the pull — the restlessness, the stirring, the quiet knowing that there’s more — listen to it. You don’t need to be fearless. You just need to be willing. You just need to jump.

Because the life you’re dreaming of isn’t waiting for you someday. It’s waiting for you right now — on the other side of one brave decision.