November 8, 2009

Limiting


Stepping outside your story will be uncomfortable.

Any time you decide to push on the edges of your story, your voices will start to work overtime to keep you inline. To put you back into your ‘comfort zone.’

Staying inside your comfort zone will only limit your experience of life. It’s safe and comfortable, but it's limiting.

In order for you to step outside your story you have to push on the edges of your comfort zone. When you do this, your ego will not like it. It will aggressively signal you to move back to what it knows.

For example, if you learned early in life that ‘what you say doesn’t matter', then you probably don't speak up and say what’s on your mind because your 'story' tells you - it won't matter. If you're a member of a team at work and you don’t speak up because you don’t think what you say matters, then this kind of behavior could have a significant limiting impact on your career.

If do you summon the courage to speak up you'll feel scared and uncomfortable. This is your ego reminding you to go back to what you know.

Staying inside your story limits who you are.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Great post. Very meaningful and relevant. Like lyrics to a song...each of us interpit them in our own way...applying the meaning to our specific situation, but the core message is a universal one.

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