Growing Beyond You
“Always believe in yourself and always stretch yourself beyond your limits. Your life is worth a lot more than you think because you are capable of accomplishing more than you know. You have more potential than you think, but you will never know your full potential unless you keep challenging yourself and pushing beyond your own self-imposed limits.
~Roy T. Bennett.
My natural tendency is to get into a comfortable pattern and work it – comfortable being the key word here. We all like to know what to expect. Most of us enjoy the luxury of perfecting a skill or process over time. But real work comes when something challenges us. We are suddenly confronted with a lack of time, knowledge, or skill. We are suddenly outside our comfort zone.
When challenges arise, we are forced to either push back or push through. Pushing back looks like giving up, saying, “This is beyond me.” Pushing through looks like being fueled by a desire or need to accomplish something we have never done before, going beyond our perceived limitations.
Growth and discovery, personally and professionally, happen when you allow the challenges to push you. Fire was not discovered because everyone was comfortable, chances are they were cold. Penicillin wasn’t created when everyone was well because we know people were dying of infections. Being outside your comfort zone is an opportunity to grow beyond the YOU you are right now, beyond the time limitations, lack of knowledge or skill development.
Thanks for reading this and for challenging yourself to grow beyond YOU.
Jeff
