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Are you sitting comfortably? I’ll bet you are. Or if not, you pretty soon will be! Because we humans like our comforts don’t we? We live in nice homes that we fill with cozy furniture and surround ourselves with things and people that we feel at ease with.

This week’s Post is all about being comfortable or, more particularly, your comfort zone, how it limits you and how you can break out of it.

There are two types of comfort – physical, where we want to experience wellbeing, and emotional where we just feel right about or simply accept what we are doing.

In the second type, some people – not us of course – are actually only comfy being miserable, moaning about life or complaining about their health. You know them, don’t you? Even uncomfortable clothing can be comfortable if it gives us an emotional check mark that we are conforming to fashion.

It’s the same with work or business projects: we get settled into a job and a particular way of doing things. We know the people we like to work with and avoid those we don’t.

We stick with it because it becomes our comfort zone – the set of things we are prepared to do without becoming anxious – inhabiting an area where it seems there’s no sense of risk.

And, as I’ve suggested, it doesn’t even have to be nice in there – plenty of people wallow in comfort zones of poverty, inadequacy and misfortune, with no apparent desire to get out.

All these things confirm our way of seeing the world. Continue reading ‘Succeed at being comfortable with being uncomfortable’

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Is there a reason for your current circumstances?

Everything happens for a reason. Despite how it seems, coincidences simply do not exist. Each seeming coincidence has within it a seed of reason. Consequences come attached to the actions that cause them –- there are no coincidences. “What you reap is what you sow!”

If you’re not getting what you expected from life, ask yourself what it is you need to do better, or different, to achieve what you want. Do you follow through on your promises? Are you honest? Do you show a true interest in people, especially those you are working with? Do you treat others, as you would like them to treat you? Have you secretly given up hope, simply because you failed once before? Are you afraid to begin your new assignment, doubtful you will be successful? Do you focus on people’s faults, telling them what bothers you about them, when in fact you are jealous and wish you were more like them?

In addition and most important –- are you honest with you? Do you think of yourself the way you think about others? Do you love yourself like you love others? Do you feel you are worthy of everything you desire?

Life always gives you what you are looking for.

Success is a consequence of belief, so be careful what you believe as– it will surely come true!
Even if you are lucky today, this isn’t a coincidence. Where you are today is not a coincidence. Ask yourself what you want from your life.
Is what you are doing today what you want to do forever?
Is your family life everything you hoped it would be?
Do you take enough time for you or have time for your hobbies?

All too often, people discover they are doing exactly the opposite of what they should be doing to get what they want. Maybe you want to become a entrepreneur, but are studying to be a doctor - because that’s what your parents wanted.

Everything you need to know is in front of you. Every action is tied to its inevitable outcome. For every cause, there is an effect. So stop blaming the world around you, and start accepting the fact that where you are today (in every single area of your life) is a result of….. YOU!

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