“A comfort zone is a beautiful thing but nothing ever grows there.
— Unknown
Hey Urban Fantastic Family
I hope you guys had a fantastic three months
into 2017. There's always room for improvement but it has been good.
For me this is a milestone in my productivity improvement plans and if this period is anything to go by, my little tweaks on how I get things done are working. It got me thinking about what it really takes for you to make change happen in your life. The idea of motivation pops into my head immediately and I start to think how misleading that whole concept can be. If I've realized anything about myself
and a lot of other human beings I know, we are not wired to do anything that we regard as being uncomfortable, scary or difficult. Our monkey minds - a reference Buddhist use to mean the constant chatter in our heads, throws up doubt and kicks our brains into self preservation mode.
The rub is, in order to do anything meaningful in our lives you are going to have to do things that are scary, uncomfortable and difficult. So that struggle between our brains warning
us of danger and us trying to amp ourselves up to overcome it, will continue and we will lose. We are only motivated to do the things we enjoy, so what about the things that are just as important but we don't like. Those little things that will make our life better if we complete them or consistently act on them. I know what your thinking, If I really want to change especially in life and death situations then surely I can.
You would think so, right?
Check
out this AMAZING article I read in Fast Company HERE. It will have you thinking differently.
