The Point of Easy Exit

It is always exciting and a little scary starting something new. The idea comes to you and if your like me you think about it for a while, maybe share it as a general, not too specific thought with a friend, and start to flesh it out. As the seed of the idea grows inside your head it may take a few tangents but at some point it will settle down and you form a description. This can then be used to encapsulate the idea and to bring a few more people into the fold - test the idea and watch the reactions. At this time there is little need to make decisions or certainty. But somewhere along the line there will come a time that decisions need to be made and the C word - Commitment - will linger in your head. This is The Point of Easy Exit.

Everything up to this point has been nothing more than an idea, a thought, harmless idle chat amongst close friends. But once you take your idea and put it out there for a broader audience, once you make some key decisions, spend some money or whatever it is that locks you into an idea then you have moved on.

So when was The Point with regard to our trip to France? (I'll talk more about what the trip is later). I don't know exactly when but sometime around June when I decided to meet up with Paula in France for a week long holiday in August. Australian to Bordeaux is a long way for one weeks holiday. But in my mind this was not just or even a holiday - it was a "Reccy". A reconnaissance. A gathering of information required to move to the next level of commitment.

Right now I'm full of ideas and uncertainity. But over the next few weeks and months I will be working through that and I hope to be able to share some of that with you. Even writing this, and the posting it is part of my movement beyond the The Point of No Exit.