The Land of "Comfortable Enough"

Are you living in the land of "Comfortable Enough"? Do you know how you got there or why you stay? Do you really want to stay - or would you rather move to the land of your dreams?

Whether or not we make plans to do something big, life goes on. We start at one point when we’re born and continually move forward. Time never stops; it never slows down to wait for us to plan or take action; and it never turns back so we can capture something we may have missed along the way.

At one point, life opens up before us like a wide crevasse. Our current life is where we are now. The life of our dreams is on the other side of the crevasse.

In between – in the crevasse – lies an alternate life waiting for us. If we don’t make plans before we arrive at the crevasse to reach the life of our dreams, and if we don’t act on those plans before we get to the edge, we will simply fall into whatever life happens to be there when we arrive.

Most of us don’t plan or act quickly enough, and we land in the crevasse. Many of us land near the top, in what I call the land of “comfortable enough”. This can be a very dangerous place to live because things are "good enough," so there’s no pull to do anything differently. In fact, we’re afraid to try, for fear of losing our place there and falling further into the crevasse, making our life worse!

But if we continue to do nothing different, we could stay there forever, never quite reaching the life of our dreams... or we may continue the downward slide, not realizing we’re slipping further into the crevasse, letting the life of our dreams slip further and further out of view. We fool ourselves into believing things are fine, and allow a worse life to sneak up on us, and before we know it, we're at the bottom of the crevasse without realizing how or when we got there!

It doesn’t matter where in the crevasse we land. If we’re in the crevasse, we’re not in the life of our dreams!

Are you in the crevasse? Are you trying to climb out of it?

Lots of obstacles are placed in our way as we try to climb out, but we must do whatever it takes if we’re ever to reach our biggest dreams in life! At one point, I was so far down in the crevasse that I could barely see the sunlight. But an arose one day that forced me to face reality and DECIDE, once and for all, whether it was time to take action and change my life, or continue lamenting the fact that I hadn't reached the land of my dreams.

In an instant, your life can begin to change if you make the conscious decision to seize opportunities as they come along and take action to accomplish your dreams.

Make that decision today... take the risk to help yourself move out of the land of "comfortable enough" and into the land of your dreams.