I felt completely embarrassed
when I discovered how much the folks at NaBloPoMo at Blogher are apparently cooler
than me and more aware of some of the modern “new fangled expressions” as we
were asked to Discuss your experience
with the saying, "go big or go home" today.
I have never, until this moment, heard the saying Go Big or Go Home!
I did some googling and this is what I discovered.
I discovered the quote has been credited to the sexy voiced actress, Eliza Dushku, whose surname is pronounced as rhyming with Push – Through. I have read an expanded version from her that goes like this: “Go big or go home. Because it's true. What do you have to lose?”
The Urban Dictionary taught me “Go Big or Go Home “ is “an expression the speaker says to the listener to encourage the listener to be extravagant, to go all the way, and do whatever you are doing to its fullest - and not flake out and it can be abbreviated gbgh!
I found it online in Working Mother and in The Arts Journal.
Other ways I am told to say it are as follows:
“Give it all (like all your effort -110%- or don't do it at all.”
“Play to win or don't get in the game.”
“Don't bring a knife to a gunfight.”
It reminds me of something I have called Passionate Detachment, which is sort of like Going Big without Worrying about the Results of the Journey. Long ago I asked my friend who was rather small how he survived being a running back on his football team. He said, “I just got the ball, put my head down and went for it!”
Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, but if you don’t act like you are going to win no matter what by simply showing up, you will get nowhere.
Is this sort of attitude risky?
Sure it is. Growing yourself is risky but staying stagnant where you are is even riskier.
So here we go: when I first read this prompt I felt embarrassed and stupid. I almost “stayed home” and didn’t write about it at all. I figured, “Who would notice?”
Then I decided to “go big” and let everyone know I didn’t know what it meant so I just went out there and found out what it meant and upon doing so discovered this is very much the attitude I am adopting again with my personal development/creative life coaching business.
Add Eliza’s additional words, “Because it's true. What do you have to lose?” and I realize the only thing I have to lose is my fear of playful experimentation. If I can go for it in a big, bad ass way and not worry about the results except for just sharing my passion from my heart – I have found over and over success comes just because.
Sure, the success may look differently than when I first started, but I have also found it tends to look even better.
How will you “Go Big or Go Home” today?
How will you “Go Big or Go Home” while taking baby steps, if that is your choice?
Neither one is right or wrong, both simply are YOUR path to becoming a person who revels in risk.
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