Sometimes It Gets Scary!

Restored from the Empower Network archive (2011–2017), lightly edited to meet our current advertising standards. Views are the original author’s.

Everything  you have ever wanted to dreamed of having is just outside of your comfort zone!

No Kidding!

There is a lot of truth to this statement. If you think about it, it is going to be uncomfortable a lot of times to stretch to do the things that are not comfortable. This is no surprise because if you are on the journey, you know that at times it can be downright scarey.

Now realize that there are some people who will just flow thru Life but they are most likely to be the exception.

That is not to be confused with those who are cruising in Life and have put the time in, stretched beyond their comfort zones, and put the time into overcoming the challenges and slaying the dragon to reach their goals.

We cheer the underdog story of those who have conquered the challenges. We all like to see the underdog win.

It also gives us hope that we can also reach our dreams and live our visions if we follow the examples of those who have not given up.

When we are in some of our darkest and challenging times is when we really need to be reminded of these messages. However, it may not be that easy to reach for these stories at those times to keep us going.

This is why we need to constantly and consistently feed our brains with information that is supportive of developing our belief systems that we can be successful in our pursuits of our dreams.

The Power of Belief is very often a great source of strength and support to get us through those tough times.

And you can bet that you will have those challenging times. Very often they may come right after you have celebrated a success. Remember, you only cruise downhill. This is not to say that you can’t celebrate your success. By all means, celebrate.

But once you have started out on the journey, you are well aware that the next test is waiting. This is not meant to sound pessimistic but more realistic.

As was mentioned earlier, there are those who have conditioned and positioned themselves to be in situations where they are not in a constant state of challenge. They are in a place so that when the next challenge comes up, they are prepared to take it on.

More likely than not they have developed a “Warrior Mentality” where they know that they are bigger than any challenge. They have also seen enough people who have also been in similar challenging situations and overcome them.

It is this attitude that develops over a period of time. In the book “Outliers” by Malcolm Gladwell, he talks about the concept that people who have achieved extraordinary levels of success have also been working and have spent about 10,000 hours on honing their skills.

Now you may not be desiring to have the same results as The Beatles, Bill Gates, or Michael Jordan. Regardless these are all examples of people who took advantage of the timing for an opportunity and put the time in to achieve great success.

The good news is that we can also achieve great levels of success when we have a great opportunity coupled with putting the time into it.

The Empower Network provides such an opportunity. There are numerous stories of people who have come from some very seriously challenging situations only to overcome them and achieve great levels of success.