Always challenge yourself
Restored from the Empower Network archive (2011–2017), lightly edited to meet our current advertising standards. Views are the original author’s.
It is easy for us humans to get set in our ways. The majority of us, once we have reached a goal we think that we don’t have to go any further or do anything towards improving ourselves. So many young men and women go into a trance once they have finished their school or university degree. They start working and basically sleep walks through life every day. The same routines day in and day out.
Challenge yourself daily.
The only way to grow is to push yourself past what you believe your limits are. Once you get a feeling of being a little scared before you take on something new in life, be it a new business venture, a new partner or something else that should be your indication that you are moving to new levels in your personal development. You are about to break through your existing and limiting boundaries that is currently holding you back from moving on.
It can also be challenging and overwhelming having to change your circumstances and situation, both physically and mentally. This requires you to learn a new set of skills that you have not had before and taking on your new tasks. However, if you want to have different results from what you have now, you have to do different things compared what you’ve done the whole time. We are always changing and adapting to new surroundings and circumstances. That is part of the human evolution. We evolved into complex being over a number of years and we still continue to evolve as the world around us change. If you are not growing you are then moving backwards.
By giving yourself a new challenge everyday, and I don’t mean small challenges that you know you could do easily, a challenge that brings up a little fear inside yourself that would make you want to doubt yourself a bit, that is when you will be moving out of your comfort zone and at the same time expanding it. When taking on something you need to feel uncomfortable doing it at first until you have mastered that area. Once this happened you then need to seek another challenge that would allow you to expand that zone even further.
“You have to get comfortable with being uncomfortable” Eric Thomas.
Successful people know this and they get comfortable with something. At that very moment they also begin to worry, because they know that comfort is a sign that you are not growing anymore. Regardless of how old you are or how skilled you think you might be, there is always something new to learn. For as long as you are living and alive you have something to learn and at the same time something to give. Now in order to give more you need to learn more as well.
Always strive to stretch yourself. Be more what you know you can be and do. In reality there are no limits to what we as humans can achieve. Be strong and set yourself the best challenge you can ever think of.
To your success!!!
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