More ups than downs

When things are working for you, you will make massive changes very quickly. But there will be days when nothing seems to be working, and worse still - you're not in the mood to care whether things work or not.

What is happening at this point in our growth journey's is interesting. By the way Growth = Change, and usually lots of it. The problem is, growth also equals re-defining our zone of comfort. And it's sometimes scary out there, so we skid to a halt, like a child refusing to leave the sand at the end of a long day at the beach - he/she doesn't want to leave, and nothing you can say or do will get him/her to change his/her mind....

Well actually there is - and you do it with bribery and distraction.

Our zones of comfort are like that recalcitrant child. It doesn't like too many changes all at once, so it puts the breaks on, and tries to remind us that it's scary out there. We really were all right doing what we've done in the past - so why change now.

So next time you come to a skidding halt with your dreams, plans and goals is this....distract the guardian at the gate of the zone of comfort, by doing something completely different for a while. Which is why it is important to have more than one goal on the go at anyone time. Don't feel that you can move forwards in one area, then set it down, and pick up one of the short term goals that you know you can be working on....the completion will give you another reason to celebrate, and whilst the guardian is out partying - you can get back to the goal item you've stopped working on. What usually happens at this point - you will be able to pick up where you left off and whatever was stopping you will no longer be an objection and you will be able to make massive progress again.

You don't always have to be moving onwards and upwards in order to make progress, sometimes onwards and sideways works just as well.

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