Hello and welcome to Five Minutes in Nature with me,
Liz Scott.
It's a little bit cool up here on Dartmoor,
But I am smiling because right in front of me there is a lamb and it has just skipped.
It'll jump right into the air with joy,
Kicking its legs as it did so.
I just find the energy of the lambs extraordinary.
I just,
When I see them play and run around like this,
It just makes me smile every single time.
Lots of lambs,
A lot of sheep up here on Dartmoor.
The moorland here is quite expansively open.
There's a lot of animals grazing,
All farmed,
But it's just good to get up close to them and see them.
And today's reflection has been prompted by a conversation with a friend I was having and she's an extraordinary woman who's got so many talents and gifts.
A brilliant writer,
A great coach,
A wonderful creative artistic woman,
And she's starting her own business.
And we were having a conversation about what what she might do next.
That was the conversation she wanted to have with me.
She had a few ideas and was wondering which direction to take.
And it occurred to me as she was speaking that it might be helpful for me just to tell her one of the things I find quite helpful,
And this is what I want to share with you guys as well today,
Is that sometimes it's just good to give something a go.
I found that with offering things in my business.
I found that in life when it comes to hobbies or things that I might want to take part in.
I just find that rather than spending too much time thinking about something it's just a really good idea to give it a go.
And there are two kind of ways you can approach this.
One is you might say I'll give it a go and if it doesn't work I've failed.
Which is I can understand that particularly when it comes to business.
It's like you know I might put on a course and promote it and but nobody's really that interested in it.
Then it might feel as though I've failed.
But another way of looking at it is that in the doing of it,
In the creation of the course or the service or whatever it is you're engaged in,
As you engage in it you are learning.
And so even though you might not get the desired outcome with people attending or signing up,
The likelihood is you will learn something along the way.
And it's that learning which supports you as you create the next service or course or the next painting or bit of writing that you're going to do.
It serves you to give it a go.
So I had a conversation with my friend about this and realized that that's one of the things I am quite good at is experimenting.
I kind of give things a go and they work out or they don't but I just learn from them.
And it reminds me a little bit of a child that's learning to walk.
You know a child that's learning to walk doesn't go from crawling to standing upright and walking in an afternoon.
A child that's learning to walk learns to walk by falling down.
A child learns balance by understanding what it is to be unbalanced.
And in a sense you can't learn to walk unless you fail.
Like it's a series of failures is learning to walk and then you find a way of doing it.
And so that's my reflection today and I wonder if that makes sense for you.
It certainly is good for me to be reminded of it.
I maybe hold back sometimes not wanting to do something incorrectly or wanted to get it right first time.
And I've just been reminded today that maybe that's not the right way to go about it.
Maybe the right way to go about it is just to give something a go.
And for me giving something a go is not in a random way.
It's about I guess first of all looking within feeling that intuitive sense of is this the right direction.
And then if I kind of get a yes that it's the right direction not thinking too much about it and just having a go and realizing that if it doesn't work out then maybe that's exactly what was meant to happen.
Because in the same way a child learns to balance by falling over I'm learning what is the right way by going the wrong way.
So yeah just see which direction you're drawn to go in and then give it a go.
There's nothing to lose.
There's nothing to lose just learning to gain.
It might not end up as you envisaged but it will take you in a particular direction and that direction is eventually will be the direction of travel that you will take.
But you might not get there on the first try.
Let me know your reflections today and of course don't forget to join me again tomorrow for another five minutes in nature.
