Saturday, June 12, 2010

Don't take the easy road out of here

I as reading something from a person that inspires me recently and it started with the following statement. "Are you comfortable and if not would you like to be"? He then moves on to say if you answer No to the first question and Yes to the second part, you are most likely broke. As you can guess he was talking about wealth. Not my place to talk wealth but Lifestyle I want to run with.

From that first question I want to use the same answering system and see where you are at the moment. If you answered No to the first part of the question, "Are you comfortable", and apply this to your lifestyle, wellness and general fulfillment. Then if you answered YES to the, "Do you want to be comfortable" part of the question then you are headed towards an uninspiring, uneventful and lifeless existence that will culminate with a very comfortable ending to your days. After all that is what you asked for wasn't it?

You can only be doing one of two things in this life and one of them is growing and learning new things and experiences by journeying into uncharted territories. Or you are getting prepared to be comfortable which is retreating from life and dying.

Don't get me wrong we are all going to die but how do you choose to get there. Do you choose an existence of taking whatever is handed to you and not ever wanting, asking and achieving much. After all you have to get up, go to work every day and after all of that there isn't much else to do is there? Or do you choose to get that dream job, take those adventurous holidays and invest wisely to create an existence of absolute exhilaration?

It sounds easy when I put it like that doesn't it? But it really is that easy. The hard part is getting uncomfortable every day and committing to making this dream come true. Step by step you have the power to make this a reality. Enter yours truly; I was the most boring and uneventful person you would ever want to meet. In fact I didn't want to meet myself half the time. So if I can do this so can you.

These are the steps to take to make the journey begin.
  1. Start seeing yourself enjoying and laughing regularly in your dreams. See yourself screaming with joy, scared out of your wits and crying with unbridled emotion at the adventures, wins and losses you will be experiencing. You are beginning to ask the universe for what you want.
  2. Change your mindset and get ready to become tested and uncomfortable everyday. There are going to be things you do that you would rather not because they will scare you and you will have no idea how things are going to turn out. You have courageous decisions to make here.
  3. Invest in your self by committing time, energy and money into making these dreams coming to life. All the best laid plans are never going to come to fruition without an investment of some kind.

Take these steps over and over again and who knows you may even start getting up a head of steam called momentum. And then all you have to do is, as another inspirational acquaintance of mine once told me, "Get out of your own way".

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