Balancing act

According to an article I read awhile back, undertaking a new venture needs to have a healthy balance of excitement and anxiety. These two emotions serve as a check and balance to motivate us yet provide a necessary degree of caution. When the balance is right, life changes can take place. It's not a guarantee of success mind you, but it spurs us on and, when necessary, to accept disappointment for what it is, a learning experience, a bump in the road.

True failure only occurs when these emotions are out of balance. When excitement rules, we are often careless or ill prepared. Success - however, we measure it - can be short lived. When anxiety weighs down the scale, we usually remain stuck in place. The trying never begins.

So how do we keep the balance?

JRB