Jim Damron

The consequences of poor navigation are that sometimes we get very lost.  And sometimes, we don’t get found.

Years ago on black ocean waters, a diving partner and I were anchored twenty miles offshore beneath an endless glut of stars, going under to watch the nocturnal life that clusters around the coral to lure and trap and feed.  We were there for the spectacular but weren’t seeing a lot of action – mainly because you first have to provide these beings with their sense of safety by turning off your light.

So we killed our beam.  In the pitch black, we waited where humans are blind and can only sense the inhabitants approach and glide past.  But after a few short moments in that slowly rocking darkness, something we never anticipated happened – the ocean lulled us both to sleep.

Nearly half an hour later, I awoke myself and my buddy.  Slightly panicked but methodical, we checked our time, we checked our air, and we crept our way out of the potentially lethal lullaby of the waters.

It gets sketchy in places where we’re out of our element and over our heads.  Then again, these places are treasure troves for discovery.  And besides…

it’s far more dangerous to live life in the shallow end.

we all know life is short.  And as caregivers, we all know how swiftly and without warning, it ends.

I don’t tire of chasing answers, and though I love it when they fall into those categories of true and false, yes or no, and right or wrong, it’s more common that we don’t get the crystal clear…life has a way of coaxing us out into the fog. 

Which is exactly why we have to get more competent, more curious, and more learned in the depths.  Because the answers are there.  And we are burning out and wasting precious time when we fret and focus on the wrong things at the surface.

My job is to take you deeper.  Help you navigate to a depth where life change flourishes.  Where you discover the gaps in your growth and take action to fill them.  Because that’s how we learn, by doing.  And the learning is never over.