In many posts, I talk a lot about how a comfort zone is a beautiful place, but nothing ever grows there. While our comfort zones feel like a safe place, the truth is, if we choose to stay there, we will never experience the things that are out there that ignite our soul.
This quote comes from an episode of Star Trek, where Captain Jean-Luc Picard has died due to his artificial heart. He sees Q in the afterlife. Q gives him a chance to go back to the bar fight that caused him to lose his original heart. When get gets there, he is a junior officer, not a Captain. When he asks Q about it, Q tells him that he never became a Captain in that timeline because he never had a brush with death or came face to face with his own mortality. He said that this version of the Captain never realized how fragile life is and that his life never came into focus. He had no plan or agenda, he just kind of drifted, never seizing the opportunities that were there for him to become greater. Q says that this version of the Captain learned to play it safe and he never, ever got noticed by anyone to become Captain.
When it comes to living the life you’ve always wanted to live, you have to take chances and seize the opportunities when they are there. The reality is excuses for why we can’t do something right now will always be there. But opportunity won’t.
We are all here on this planet for a limited amount of time. We don’t know how long we have. We are perishable items, yet we put off things and live like we have time. Time is promised to no one. We don’t have time and cannot afford to live in potential for the rest of our lives. At some point, we have to make our move.Â
