Leaving the Harbor
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“In order to discover new continents, you must dare to leave your harbor.” The people who get older but don’t seem to age are those willing to still be explorers. They appreciate where they’ve been while embracing the change to keep going, to keep growing. They choose to push away from the harbor looking up — not looking back. Yes, there’s a season for the harbor. But when it becomes a port of safety and no longer a destination of potential, the harbor has chained you. What if there’s more inside of you? (By the way, there is.) The way you discover this is pushing away from the harbor. To move toward the unknown. It’s how we find the known. It’s how you found the harbor you’re in. It was once a part of the unknown. You left one harbor for this. It was once a new continent. It helped make you who you are. But it might not make you into who you can be. To discover a new continent, a new you, at some point, you must dare to leave the harbor. |
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PS. If you’re trying to figure out what to do Next, it’s why I’ve written What to do Next. |
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Hi Jeff,
Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family. As someone who is looking to retire and make some changes in their life AND took up sailing a few years back, this article spoke to me when you published it. I recently took the steps to sail an offshore passage from Newport, RI to Bermuda to St. Maarten. 11 days on the water and over 1,513 nautical miles traveled. Gods power and majesty are on full display in the Atlantic Ocean! Thanks for the article and the work you do, it helped with a gentle reminder and push to keep exploring and not to get too pleased with myself. I leave you with the below, which you may already know.
From Sir Francis Drake – Disturb us Lord
“Disturb us, Lord, when we are too well pleased with ourselves,
When our dreams have come true because we have dreamed too little,
When we arrived safely because we sailed too close to the shore.
Disturb us, Lord, when with the abundance of things we possess
We have lost our thirst for the waters of life;
Having fallen in love with life, we have ceased to dream of eternity
And in our efforts to build a new earth,
We have allowed our vision of the new Heaven to dim.
Disturb us, Lord, to dare more boldly, to venture on wider seas
Where storms will show your mastery;
Where losing sight of land, we shall find the stars.
We ask You to push back the horizons of our hopes;
And to push into the future in strength, courage, hope and love.”