The Explorers Edge

What does it take to do something new ? We all have something that we would like to do, something we would like to experience or achieve. Reading this, something came up for you. An idea, a ‘there’ that tempts you. Some of you may have started. Some of you went, that is foolish, I can’t do that and some went, yes, but how ?

All of ‘that’ is what explorers do. Explorers know how to turn uncertainty into a path. They know how to change the unknown into the familiar. They know how to go from here, where they may not have everything they need or know what they need, to there.

This is the explorers edge.

Anyone can learn how to do this. I had to, so that I could reach my ‘there’, the Guinness World record for the Deepest Dive by a Woman on Scuba. I was not born to be deepest, it was something I had to learn how to do and I am not talking about the diving skills that I needed, I am talking about that ‘other’ stuff that we struggle to find words for. The part where I had to change how I thought about myself, where I had to change how I thought about the world, where I had to find my courage and my autonomy and make fear my friend.

Exploration does those ‘big’, impossible things and it does those smaller, impossible things because anything you have never done before seems impossible until you do it.

Here are some tools and resources to help you find your Explorer’s Edge