Sunday, May 10, 2009

No Growth In Your Comfort Zone

I received a text from a good friend and business partner yesterday. I loved the way she sent it. It had such a humble way about how she gained this realization so as to remove my ego and allow me to receive it again. I say again because I have discovered this truth but if I am not applying this very concept daily it is knowledge that sits on my head and soon I become weaker having not applied it.

Here it is exactly how Rebekah sent it:
"Something I learned 2day(so amazingly humble): The day u settle in a comfort zone is the day Ur life will begin 2 sink. . . Always strive 2 become 1% better than u were yesterday. . . comfort can be humanities enemy there is no growth in ur comfort zone. . ."

I love this, and I applied it yesterday and I will continue to apply it today, and tonight before going to bed as I pre-plan for tomorrow I will keep in my mind this question. How can I be 1% better tomorrow in my roles as a husband, a father, a son, a steward, a professional, a friend, a servant?

Think about it if you were a tree you wouldn't stop growing what makes you think if the seeds of growth were planted in you were good only for yesteryear. This is your time to grow again. Begin today to fight the complacency of comfort, continue today with a prayer if you already have started this direction and stretch a little more, and grow beyond what you were yesterday.

Joshua Andrus
www.hiresite.info