Breaking Through Your Comfort Zones

Picture this...
A little child is crawling around a new surrounding when they notice--for the first time--a huge staircase.  As this little one gazes up at the new apparatus, what thoughts do you think are going on in their mind?  How do one-year olds think about new things?  How do they react to the unknown?


If you are around little children, you now the response.  They would say, "Wow, I've got to get to the top!"


Alternately, do you think they would look up the huge staircase and think, "Wow I've got to get to the top but wait a minute...I didn't go to stair climbing school.  Maybe I'm not ready.  I'll just wait until I have my degree in stair climbing and then watch me go."


On the other hand, would this little one look up they huge staircase and think, "Wow, I've got to get to the top...but wait.  I might get hurt.  I may fail.  I've heard it said 22% of one-year olds fall on staircases.  It's just too risky.


Or would this one-year old think, "Wow, I've got to get to the top...but wait.  What will my friends say?  What if I succeed?  They may think I don't fit in with the group back in the sandbox.  They might think I'm one of those snobby, famous stair climbers.  You know what they say ...it's lonely at the top!  I better not.  It's just not worth it."


NOT!!  A one-year old wouldn't say any of these things.  O one-year old is hungry for adventure.  They have an inborn, risk-taking ability.  It is their nature to risk.  They see it.  They want it.  They take it.


So, what happened?  What happened to the natural risk-taking ability that you were born with?  


Life happened!  Circumstances  occurred.  Disappointments happened.  And you, like me, began to let fear creep in.  Slowly and surely, fear began to grow until it was bigger than your dream, bigger than your faith.


Has life circumstances and disappointments silenced your risk-taking ability?  Has fear crushed your hunger for adventure.


The first step to getting your hunger for adventure back is to realize your innate risk-taking ability.  It's your nature to risk.  So break through your comfort zone and look up the staircase again and dream about what's at the top!