I am fascinated by moments in life when we have to confront fear, rise above it, move beyond it… and in the process learn something about ourselves, our limits, and our ability to surprise ourselves. This is not going to be about physically jumping off of cliffs, though it’s a handy metaphor and may come up from time to time. This is about jumping into life, conquering hesitation and self-doubt and uncertainty. Taking the plunge into possibility. My particular focus will be about creativity and, at least initially, about the major creative project I have undertaken and which involves confronting and transcending some very deep fears…

I am also hoping this will become something more than a personal blog. I mean, I’d like it to stay personal, but ideally it will take on a life beyond my own experiences, with guest posts from various people about their own experiences with getting past the roadblocks that fear so often puts in our way… or perhaps, ways in which fear has acted as a catalyst for change and growth. This might involve fields that are less explicitly about creativity, but then I think living creatively has to do with a great deal more than producing art. Like fearlessness, it is a matter of attitude and approach.

Despite the word ‘fearless’ in the title, I don’t actually think it’s possible, or even necessarily desirable, to live completely without fear – it’s one of our basic driving forces, after all, and in some cases keeps us out of trouble – so perhaps what this is really all about is transcending fear, moving through it and past it to the world of possibility that lies beyond.

Enjoy and please let me know what you think! I’m more interested in dialogue than monologue.