Try it, change it, try it again...

The title of this post comes from a camp I've worked at, and it stands as one of their "Seven Qualities of a Collaborative Leader".  This poem reminded me of it (and fittingly, as I'm currently reading Alice in Wonderland):

She drank from a bottle called  DRINK ME
And up she grew so tall.
She ate from a plate called TASTE ME
and down she shrank so small.
And so she changed, while other folks
Never tried nothin' at all.

-Shel Silverstein

 Of course, it's easy to wonder why in the world Alice would eat or drink anything she just found laying about in a strange place (that exact act, by the way, is in no way advocated!), though the point stands: unless you try something new, there's no way to think you'll change.  I actually like to think the inverse as well: unless you change, you'll never try something new.  And, either way, without trying something new - without taking a chance, without a new experience, without risk, without challenge, without stepping outside your comfort zone - there will be no change.

For better or worse.

But there's really only one way to find out, isn't there?