The best way to determine if you’re heading in the right direction is to gauge how comfortable you are in life.
If you’re cozy, you’re probably not growing or fulfilling your higher potential in life.
I use the word “uncomfortable” deliberately.
Uncomfortable in this context does not mean self-hate, nor does it imply being in a life-threatening situation.
It simply means this:
Are you ACCEPTING challenges, or are you AVOIDING challenges?
Facing adversity is a non-logical paradox. It is a paradox because it is uncomfortable, and us humans will go to great lengths to avoid discomfort. As a result, we basically stay stagnate and live unfulfilling lives.
Unfortunately, nobody ever told you that comfort and discomfort are the same thing. They are both energy. They are both polarities that have the capacity to cause great change in your life if you allow this contradiction to exist and roll with it anyways.
Steven Pressfield calls this feeling “resistance” in his book The War of Art. Resistance is that voice in your head that talks you down, fears judgement, and wants instant gratification. All of which prevent you from THRIVING and CREATING BEAUTIFUL CHANGE in your life and the lives of those around you.
Takeaway:
Read The War of Art. If you’re cozy, start challenging yourself to work hard and face your fears. You WILL adapt, and you will be amazed and intrigued by your capacity to manifest great change in life and how far you’ve come.
P.S. You can’t “think” or “logic” your way into facing your fears. I’m asking you to leap. I’m asking you to absolutely believe in yourself and trust the universe no matter what, before you have proof of anything, that everything will be okay, that everything is happening exactly as it should.
Fear is made of mist and disappears the moment you walk through it.
