—Ralph Waldo Emerson; fearless writer/poet, highly-skilled spewer
and doer
I have a friend who had the word “Duh” tattooed on the inside of her upper
arm in homage to the fact that all of our big ah-ha moments are no-brainers;
“Fear is a choice!” “I am lovable!” “Don’t worry, be happy!” Every time she
high-fives, or lifts her arm to see if she needs a shave, she gets reminded of
how often the sublime lies waiting in the obvious.
You know countless of these truisms of which I speak, you’ve heard them or
thought them a million times, but when they finally sink in and you “get it,”
they suddenly become earth-shattering news.
An epiphany is a visceral understanding of
something you already know.
Once something moves from our brains to our bones, that’s when we can
use it to change our lives.
The million-dollar question is, will we?
Oh, the years people spend talking the talk, rolling out the shoulds, woulds
and coulds, attending classes, trolling the seminar circuit, and burying
themselves in all sorts of shelf-helpery before they finally, if ever, DO
anything with it all.
There’s a statistic that says only 5 percent of people who sign up for
something, like a course or a seminar, actually do anything with it. And this
includes very, very, very high-priced somethings, not just the money-
management class at the community college down the road. This is because
lots of people wish for change, really, really want it, are willing to invest the
time and money into it, but are ultimately not willing to get uncomfortable
enough to actually make anything happen. Which means they don’t want it as
badly as they say they do.
“I tried” is the poor man’s “I kicked butt.”
People who are successful are not only willing to get uncomfortable, but
they know they have to make a habit of it if they want to stay successful. They
keep moving through each new challenge instead of stagnating and settling.
The muscle of kick-assery is like any other muscle—you have to use it or lose
it. If you have one big breakthrough and feel like, I got this, I am ON it, and
then sit back and wait for your long overdue stream of awesomeness to keep
pouring in, you will lose your muscle mass and fall back to the marshmallow
state that you were in before you started working out.
Keep moving, keep growing, keep pushing through obstacles, keep
evolving. You break through at one level, arrive at the next, and take another
step up. Each time you grow, you get to learn something new, which basically
means you have to get uncomfortable again. Because when you arrive at a
level you’ve never been at before, you’re faced with challenges you’ve never
experienced before. It’s the willingness to keep pushing through new
challenges, not shrink from them back into your comfort zone, that separates
the successful from the unsuccessful.
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