AP/102; i hear ya –but in defense i refer you to the 12 step concept, where the jittery addict might well throw in the towel if you advise him that he must, from now on, for the rest of his life, go cold turkey.

And then there’s the old proverb, that the journey begins with the first step, no matter how long or short it is to be.

3) “Try it, you’ll liiiike it!” –works with dessert, or a movie, or a vacation spot, anything you know is good, but that is facing unfamiliarity-driven reluctance. Doesn’t work for anything where the risk is more than negligible, whether that risk is discomfort, or that the speaker , sponsoring the idea, is more interested in enrolling you than in whether or not “…you’ll liiike it!”

4) Because the laws of nature create time and space, location can’t be changed by leap of faith or act of will. A journey is required –preceded by a turning. That turning is the leap of faith or act of will. The turning movement is the same, regardless of whether done with trepidation and doubt or enthusiasm and determination, and unlike the journey through time and financial space to the new financial location, the leap or act is done in the instant of the present.

So, to attempt to move someone to the same eventual place (‘eventual place’ = ‘placed in time by event’), you can ask for a personally risky commitment to a long, difficult effort to arrive at an unfamiliar place, or you can ask for an easily-managed, quickly-done, low-risk return to a familiar state.

With the former, you’re more likely to get nothing; with the latter more likely to get something. ‘Something’ can grow; ‘nothing’ can’t grow (except entropy, in negative space).

5) five being a comfort, while four is a bad number for action, i’d like to add this fifth point, in the form of a question: “Jeez, will i EVER shut up?”