The thing about being comfortable is that it sneaks up on you, embracing you in a blanketed coziness of familiarity, blurring your awareness that I’m. Not. Moving. Forward. 

Um, sorry. I didn’t seem to notice. I was justsadamn comfortable… 

Steven Pressfield says, “The more important an activity is to your soul’s evolution, the more resistance you will feel.” In my own experience and the many shared experiences of others, I have found this to be true nearly 100% of the time.

In the challenges we are most afraid to take on, the endeavors we believe are bigger than us, or any feat we nearly convince ourselves is beyond our reach, we find the key to our next level. 

I can’t tell you what’s on your next level, or mine for that matter, but I can tell you for sure that I want to get there and I have made it a priority to get, gulp, uncomfortable.

What that means will be different for each of us. It could mean

• pushing yourself differently in your workout
• leaving a comfortable but spirit-crushing job
• going balls to the wall doing something that you enjoy but are not good at (yes, fellow perfectionists out there: you don’t have to be an ace at something to enjoy it!)
• starting a new business
• removing yourself from relationships that deplete you
• and anything else that requires you to stand in your truth. 

If there’s one area you are going to encounter resistance, it will be when you begin to stand in your truth, and it’s for the very reason Steven Pressfield stated above: it’s important to your soul’s evolution. 

Are you ready to kick it into high gear and get uncomfortable?

Only you can pinpoint the areas where resistance is present and push back accordingly.

If you’re scratching your head and son-of-a-bitching me right now because you believe you don’t have a clue as to where in your life you’ve become comfortable, relax and breathe.

If you are a meditator, you know how to go within for your answers.

If you are a person who prays, pray for guidance in seeing what your eyes are not showing you.

If you are a person who all of this sounds a little too woo-woo for, get outside and take a walk/run/hike/swim and clear your mind. Go on a silent retreat, as Arthur Brooks suggests, armed with the 3 questions of why.

Don’t think, don’t feel, just get. See what comes to you.

You’re not on the clock. Your answers unfold in their own time simply by being open to and present for them.