Willing to fail…

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“All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.”

Michael John Bobak

When was the last time you were near the edge of your comfort zone? How did it make you feel? Did you want to lean into the experience? Or did you want to back away? Is getting outside of your own personally defined limits something that you seek out or turn away from?

If you want to grow, you must be willing to risk failure. You must be willing to take on more than you know you are capable of doing. To grow you must be willing to push past the point where you know that you cannot fail. This is what it means to get outside of the comfort zone. Failure becomes a possibility, and this is where the real opportunity for growth occurs.

How does this make you feel? Does the idea of regularly seeking out opportunities that push you past your personal limitations inspire or terrify you?

I think the really important question is this. What is more frightening, stretching and possibly failing, or becoming complacent and irrelevant?

I’ll choose growth and the risk of failure every time. The alternative scares me to death…

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