Seek Discomfort To Overcome Your Fears and Live Your Best Life
Every success that I have ever achieved in my life, has come from some form of discomfort, pain, failure, or challenge. One of my favorite quotes that I live by is from, Sivaprakash Sidhu,
Everything you want is on the other side of your comfort zone and the other side is fear
Also, another one of my favorites is from Ross Perro,
Success is on the razor’s edge of failure
Discomfort is something that we are all faced with every day. Whether to exercise or just push it off until tomorrow. The decision to make that tough phone call or have that difficult conversation ripe with conflict and confrontation. The decision to stop that habit, that vice that we know deep down inside is taking us slowly farther and farther away from our goal, from who we truly are.
I’m sure you resonated with one or all of the examples I just mentioned above. The reason is that, as humans, we are all wired to seek safety, comfort, stability and once we have it, our fight-or-flight reptilian brain shuts off and leaves us to enjoy our life filled with pleasure, fun, and laziness.
Although from the outside it may look all happy and full of rainbows, nothing could be further from the truth. There’s only so much comfort, food, and pleasure you can enjoy until you become numb to it and ask yourself those existential questions of:
Why am I here?
Is this all there is?
Am I living my purpose?
Am I making an impact in someones else’s life?
It is at this intersection in life, where you are met with two significant decisions: do I continue down this path of this continuous cycle of pleasure-seeking, gluttony, overindulging in your favorite unhealthy foods, watching too much Netflix, porn addiction, masturbation, meaningless sex, etc.
Take this morning, for example. I did not want to get up, because I was so tired from my baby boy waking up every 5 minutes, about 10 times in the middle of the night, disrupting my deep REM sleep. My body was sore from my previous day’s workout. Oh man, trust me, I…
