GROWTH BEGINS AT THE END OF THE COMFORT ZONE
When you take responsibility for your life, serendipitous events unfold and lead you to awaken your inherent wisdom. At this level of your life you must be willing to step out of your comfort zone and meet life with passion and fervor. Here’s an all too common scenario that plays out in people’s lives, illustrating how settling sometimes can lead to apathy and comfort.
Life tosses you lemons— well at least that’s what you suspect from where you stand. You maybe sick and tired of being rut. Feeling uninspired_emotionally drained and lacking direction. Don’t despair since you may simply be experiencing an internal shift. From time to time, you may suffer periods of uncertainty, which on the surface appears as though your world is sinking. You might feel helpless and unable to navigate your journey ahead.
Though you can’t quite put your finger on it, something isn’t quite right-you that part at least. Life seems harder and requires more effort than usual. Everything is a chore. You feel emotional turbulence at the slightest episode when things don’t go according to plan.
Rest assured life isn’t always smooth sailing. Seeking refuge in the statement liberates us from having to push against the forces of life. Life’s journey is filled with countless lessons, which many fail to concede when embroiled in their drama.
Let me elaborate this phrase into a short story –
There was a king who received a very special gift two beautiful, magnificent, peregrine falcons . He handed them over to a man who was expert in training falcons. After a couple of months the trainer inform the king that one of the two falcons was really doing well. Flying majestically! Soaring into the heights of the sky! But the other one-it had not moved at all from its branch from the very day that he had started training them. The king brought healers and sorcerers from all over the place to try and get the falcon to move , but the bird just wouldn’t fly. Having tried everything he could, the frustrated king said to his minister , “Maybe we need someone more familiar with nature. Someone who understands animals and birds. I think only such a person can solve this problem. Go look for someone like this from the countryside and assign this task to him.” The next morning, the king was thrilled to see the second falcon soaring high above the palace gardens. Delighted, he called his minister and asked him to get the doer of this miracle to him. The minister brought a simple farmer to the king. The king asked the farmer, “How did you make this falcon fly?” The farmer replied, “It was very easy. Your Royal Highness. I simply cut the branch on which the bird was sitting.” We all are created to fly. To live by the incredible potential that we have all been invested with. But often we sit on our branches, Clinging to the things that are familiar to us. Remaining stuck towards our comfort zones. Not willing to venture out. Not willing to take risks. The possibilities are endless. But for most of us, they remain undiscovered. Because we continue to conform to the familiar, to the comfortable, to the mundane. So for the most part, our lives are mediocre, instead of exciting , thrilling and fulfilling. What is the branch that’s holding you back from flying high? What is the fear that’s stopping you from taking a risk ? What is the weakness that’s inhibiting your growth? Unless we cut off the branches we are clinging to and free ourselves and we can never take off and reach newer heights in our life. What are you waiting for ? Cut the branch and take your flight.
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