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Living Life Your Way

It is a common human reaction to avoid the unknown and the difficult; even when the familiar and the easy are stifling us and making us miserable. If you want to achieve growth, fulfillment, and happiness in life though, you are going to have to choose to take challenges on a regular basis, rather than choosing to remain stuck in a rut created by fear and a craving for certainty.

In fact, security is an illusion. The only thing certain in life is change and uncertainty. Refusing to take on challenges does not guarantee security, any more than hiding under the bedcovers does. It simply stops us from learning, growing, and achieving our goals.

We have to expect to experience a certain amount of discomfort, or even pain, as we tackle the challenges that offer us the opportunities for fulfillment. Breaking free from self-imposed limitations, unsatisfactory circumstances, fears, habits, and beliefs is not easy! What is important though, is to recognize the difference between the natural resistance we feel at stepping out of our comfort zones, and pushing our boundaries, and the message of ‘stop’ from our higher selves (the spiritual part of our beings) when we know intuitively that a certain path is not right for us.

It is not necessary, or positive, to take on challenges just for the sake of it. Listen to your heart, and take action in a certain direction when you truly know that it the way your higher self is leading you. If something feels wrong, it probably is, but if something feels right but terrifying, then dig deep within you for courage, and take the challenge.

Avoiding challenges does not prevent discomfort either. Being trapped and stifled can actually be more painful, and even soul-destroying, than the brief, intense pain that can come when we break free from our shackles and break out of our shells.

Without the challenge, it is very difficult to learn and grow. We must stretch our wings in order to soar higher. If you keep doing only what comes easily and naturally, you will never develop the skills needed to conquer the more difficult tasks. This doesn’t mean that we need to leap out of the swamps of mediocrity and expect to race straight to the mountain top. One step at a time is the way to reach even the highest peak.

In any game of skill, there are various stages and levels to pass through. As a beginner, if you try skipping straight through to the ultimate challenge level, you will probably fail dismally. You won’t have had the chance to develop the skills you need. The skills and know-how that you attain as you progress, step by step, through the game.

In life, one of the keys to success is to be willing to attempt the next stage. Don’t be afraid of failing- without failure we cannot learn what doesn’t work. To achieve instant success in every challenge would be sheer luck. Whatever the situation is that you are facing, there are always more ways that don’t work, than ways that do. Be willing to experience some of those ways that don’t work- they will give you valuable insight into methods that are more likely to succeed. By a process of elimination, and with persistence and faith, you can find the route to success.

The saying goes that it is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. We can expand this to understanding that it is better to have tried and failed than never to have tried. As the saying goes, ‘nothing ventured, nothing gained.’

If you try, there is a possibility that you will succeed. If you don’t try, your chance of success is zero. Even if you don’t succeed, you will undoubtedly have learned something through your attempt. And it is never too late to try again!

Whatever it is that you dream of in your life, look for ways to begin making your dreams come true. When you find an opportunity, no matter how big or small, or how scary, summon every ounce of courage you can, and dare to try. The only real failure in life is the failure to try, so make a leap of faith whenever you can, and take the challenge!

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