When I was a kid, I went rock climbing with my youth group. I had never done it before and I was so far from my comfort zone. I wrote about this adventure outside of my comfort zone in an earlier post. I learned a lot about myself suspended in the air on a cliffside that Spring.
I say this repeatedly, but it’s true: You cannot afford to live in potential for the rest of your life. At some point, you have to make your move.
It is okay to be scared to be out of your comfort zone. Your comfort zone is a nice place, but nothing ever grows there. By challenging yourself, you grow. And when you grow, the magic happens.
For many of us, we want to play it safe. We crave certainty. But life is meant for adventure, cultivating deep relationships, and understanding why we are here. How can you experience those things if you are unwilling to venture out to where those answers are?
Take the idea of a beautiful ship. Ships are meant to be in the open sea, discovering new places. While there is risk anytime you leave the safe harbor and navigate the ocean, if you leave the ship docked there, it will rust and rot. And the same is true for us. We are meant to constantly change and evolve. And the only thing we can really count on is change. It is always going to happen. So we can either choose to grow from change and doing things differently, or we can decide not to challenge ourselves and our life inevitably stays the same. Remember, if nothing changes, nothing changes.
