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Why are we here?

Unless you are someone who GENUINELY doesn’t want to be better,
happier, healthier, more fulfilled, learn more, BE more.
Unless you are someone that has everything sorted out
and living blissfully in your day to day routine,

Life’s purpose HAS to be:

TO GROW

In whatever respect; knowledge, achievements, fitness, understanding
skill, empathy, happiness.

And to grow requires you to be uncomfortable.
Newness is never comfortable.

First day at secondary school, new job, new baby, new course
new relationship.

Whilst no doubt exciting – your brain works in 5th gear
maximum capacity – all your senses on high alert.
Making sense of everything, trying to link the dots,
accepting the wide-eyed, slight panic of being a beginner.

It isn’t comfortable.

We are predisposed to comfort.
Things that we know and understand.

Like when someone visits the same ‘quite nice’ holiday resort
every year for twenty years.

Nothing wrong with that.
If they like it, they like it.

But it’s a big World – to grow would be to try somewhere/thing new.
Not knowing the lanscape – having to find your bearings

Because that gives you the chance of greatness.
New and exciting possibilities and memories.
And stories for the grandchildren.

That the ‘quite nice’ resort on the 20th year
definitely can’t offer.

If you want to grow in your life
you have to get uncomfortable.

Thought:

Know that shying away from the mild pain of discomfort
of something new that you want
actually has the net effect of reducing you.

• All those missed opportunities,
• things you would have done
• places you would have seen
• challenges you would have risen to
• Strangers that could have become the most important friends you ever had.

Those are what you lose as each day goes by that you are too scared
to sit with discomfort.
of walking across coals (that are usually ten times less hot
than you thought they were going to be).

Question:

What is that thing you want – that you are too scared to do?
What are you scared of?
What’s the worst that could happen?
If you were brave enough – and you were ‘out the other side’

…would it have been worth it?

Challenge:

Jot down the answers to the following questions:

1.  What is ‘Your Thing’

2. What are you scared of?

3. Would it have been worth it?

Have a great month.