“Get comfortable with being uncomfortable.”
To do more than what you’ve done before you have to push yourself beyond where you’ve been, that’s uncomfortable.
Success is a comfort awarded to those only willing to do the uncomfortable.
Comfort is stagnation. Growth requires a constant state of discomforts.
So, get used to it.
There are 5 Ways to do this:
- Do what you resist. When presented with 2 paths pick the path of most resistance. Don’t want to workout-workout. Don’t want to order a salad at lunch-order a salad at lunch. Don’t want to get up early to fit in preparing for the day-get up early and prepare for the day. Drink more water, sit down to write those thank you notes….Just DO all those things that you are resisting. Growth requires resistance. Do what you resist!
- Push Past Hard. There’s a point in every endeavour where it becomes hard, where you hit that preverbal wall, mentally, physically and emotionally. Your in a fitness class and you hit that wall. Your brain is telling you to stop, back off. That’s when you go a little harder! When you’re off on that project and your brain is telling you it’s time to check email, double down! When you’re in the middle of a workout and you feel all spent. Keep going! There’s no growth getting to the wall. Growth and glory are only achieved AFTER you hit and go over the wall!
- You gotta go for failure. If you haven’t failed, you haven’t finished. The end is not SUCCESS, its FAILURE. Failure is where the edge of your current capabilities are. Look, if you’re doing 10 reps successfully then the sets not done, you have to keep pushing reps until you fail-or fatigue-maybe you weren’t pushing enough weight. If every workout you attempted didn’t happen, maybe you aren’t asking yourself to do enough. An example is of a workout that begins to get easier you start to lose focus or discipline. It means you need to change it or make it harder so you struggle and feel a bit of failure-that is SUCCESS! You have to be willing to constantly push beyond your current success limits to become more.
- Suck It Up. Success is hard! Enjoy that fact. It eliminates the weak. The unwilling. Those unwilling to do what’s uncomfortable. You see, comfort is mediocrity, which means comfort is the death of success. Understand that both successful people and unsuccessful people hate to do what it takes to be successful, ONLY, successful poeple do it anyway. You don’t have to like it. In fact doing what you don’t like is the whole point. “To have what others don’t, you have to do what others won’t”. In other words, you gotta do the suck. Enjoy the suck. Even if you don’t like it. Enjoy the fact that doing what sucks is what separates you from the rest. So suck it up and do it anyway.
- Supersize your goals. And one of the best ways is to stay uncomfortable is to take your goals and supersize them. Set and plan for goals above and beyond what you’re comfortable with setting for yourself. Even if right now it seems a bit scary or even a bit crazy. Maybe you’ll even need a spotter there to even give you a little bit of that extra assistance as you get used to the weight of your supersize goal. Soon enough you will grow into this new weight and be able to lift what was previously impossible because you pushed yourself into it. Well you can know I am going to be here every day to be your spotter. To give you that extra little nudge, just that little bit of support that you need to push yourself past your current success max, and then, set by set, day by day, we can have you lifting weight, building strength in your life and habits, and achieving goals well beyond what you ever thought possible for yourself. Together we can help you become better every day!
For video messages:
TASK #1 Do what you RESIST!
https://www.facebook.com/simpsonleeanne/videos/10208929111408515/
Task #2 Push Past HARD!
https://www.facebook.com/simpsonleeanne/videos/10208934868312434/
Task #3 FAIL at Something!
https://www.facebook.com/simpsonleeanne/videos/10208941794125575/
Task #4 Suck It Up!
Movie on 2017-02-27 at 5.02 PM
Task #5 Supersize Your Goals
Movie on 2017-02-27 at 5.14 PM