The phrase "an initial leap" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe the first significant step or action taken towards a goal or in a process.
Example: "Making an initial leap into the world of entrepreneurship can be daunting, but it is often the first step towards success."
Alternatives: "a first step" or "an early jump".
Parents had already founded an action group to press for more schools; the council let it be known that it would welcome a parent-led proposal; and a beautiful and so far unique relationship was born.Since that initial leap of faith, Lambeth has become nonchalant about stepping aside and letting others run schools.
Rob Barlow, 46, from Redcar, has changed careers twice and believes networking helped him to make the initial leap.
Someone must dare to make the initial leap, to retrieve the frozen thesis from its glacial prison.
But it was with the initial leap from go-karts to cars that the father realized he had a decision to make.
As I will relate in this two-part series, taking the initial leap was difficult and very, very, scary.
Quantum mechanics tells us that "nothing" is inherently unstable, so the initial leap from nothing to something may have been inevitable.
Their initial leap of faith might be well worth it, for Concord has just entered into a significant partnership with Cisco Systems (CSCO), the largest maker of data networking equipment.
Jumping Off the Academic Bandwagon, Part 1: An Agonizing Decision by Holly Sawyer, 26 October 2001 Holly Sawyer found taking the initial leap outside academia scary and difficult, but it also turned out to be an exciting and enlightening experience with a fulfilling career away from the bench at the end of it.
While making the initial leap might be difficult, Ramsey says people come out of the experience with a new appreciation and understanding of sharks.
Much as he believed, against the direst of consequences if he was wrong (plummeting to his death!), that the path he had chosen was correct, you must also have the strength of your conviction to take that initial leap into the process of changing your inertia (especially realizing that your worst-case scenario is nothing like that faced by Indiana Jones, though that was just a film, of course).
