If you are a mindset and growth personal development diva that wants one thing to focus on to elevate and ignite the fire to your success, I would point you in the direction of getting uncomfortable and embracing discomfort. The feelings and physical affects that come with this can include but are not limited to:
Painful
Uneasy
Intolerable
Unbearable
Discomfort
Awkward
Embarrassing
Bitter
Difficult
Unfamiliar
I know this doesn’t sound appealing but stay with me. When we feel these feelings and effects of them coursing through our body of course we want to immediately stop what we are doing to prevent more of this icky feeling, that does not feel ‘good’ or ‘empowering’.
This situation irks me from many angles, for example, we have been taught:
To fear being uncomfortable
To not make other people feel uncomfortable (isn’t that a big no no)
To feel like it is our responsibility to fix something when someone else feels uncomfortable from something we have said or done
That being uncomfortable is wrong in some way
I believe:
The fear of being uncomfortable comes from it being unfamiliar
If delivered and communicated in a kind, assertive and respectful way anything can be said - how they choose to feel AND respond to you is COMPLETELY up to them
How other people feel is not for us to control - if someone was happy you wouldn’t take that away but see someone uncomfortable and boom, ‘we gotta fix that!’ Which further enforces ‘we said something we shouldn’t have’
Being uncomfortable is my fucking door to success in this world
Knowing how to tell the difference between ‘this is bad I should stop’ and ‘I am doing this for the right reasons’ is within your own moral place inside of you. Something can feel awkward and difficult at the start but have a really positive and profound outcome. It’s all in pushing through the uncomfortable to get to your result. One of the reasons I believe people steer away from being uncomfortable is because it is unfamiliar and all the emotions and feelings and physical effects of being uncomfortable are unfamiliar.
The positive effects when we embrace discomfort (on the other side of those icky feelings):
Opens opportunities for you
Helps you flourish,
Grows your internal fire and power to do more and be more,
It transforms the way you think about ‘what is difficult’ and ‘what is possible’ for you,
Encourages you to truly believe that anything is truly possible
It is transformative and powerful to your mind and future success
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