Over your head.

“If you aren’t in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?”

There is no better way to announce your expectations regarding performance and display your intention to succeed than to go “all in”. To fully embrace the unknown of the moment and intentionally “be in over your head”.

Just plunging in – come hell or high water – speaks to a level of confidence, courage and intent that is born to overcome any challenge that presents itself. A limitless passion to achieve, intention to become and devotion to fulfill the cause. Truly potent responses to a circumstance or occasion that you sense is ripe with both risk and opportunity.

Sure, there can be that initial shock, the exhilaration that always accompanies the initial act of “jumping in”. But that too will pass, and the distance between the top of your noggin and the challenge begins to change. Perhaps it is the depth of the challenge that is diminishing. Maybe it is the recognition that you are really in your element. Where you are supposed to be.

In fact, you are truly rising to the occasion. For it is your response to each and every challenge that will always control and enhance your stature.

So don’t spend your life playing small. You should always be playing big. Your current frame should never command the limits of your ambition – nor your doubts – the trajectory of your life.

You are much taller than you could ever imagine.

So just jump right in.

“Play over your head.”