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June 12, 2017 by T. Michael Fairchild

12 Steps To Leaving Your Comfort Zone Behind Forever – Part 2 – Get Used To Being Uncomfortable For A While

If you are reading this, you have created your “map” or plan, if you will, to help get you from where you currently are to where you wish to be. If not, go back to our previous article on 12 Steps To Leaving Your Comfort Zone Behind Forever – Part 2 – Create Your Map by clicking here. So the next thing in creating your ideal life is to put your plan into action. One of the first issues you will encounter in this process is resistance, otherwise known as fear. Be it your own fear of failure or someone else’s fear for you, or even someone’s fear that you will be successful when they aren’t. Either way, you will encounter resistance to what you are trying to do. This is where things begin to get a bit uncomfortable, and despite what you may think right now, it’s a good thing. This means you are beginning to make progress. What you have to keep in mind is anytime there have been major changes in your life you have felt uncomfortable. It’s only human to feel uncomfortable when you are experiencing anything that you have not done before. Fear, trepidation, uneasiness, anxiety, doubt, dread, or (for a few) even sheer terror; these are all feelings that we all experience at one time or another when faced when we get pushed or pulled outside of what is considered normal for us. This is what you may feel when you begin to venture outside of your comfort zone. But this is necessary to achieve more than the average way of life. One thing you will soon realize, once you do leave your comfort zone a few times, is how exciting and great life can be outside of it. Think about it, which sounds more exciting to you: A – Kicking back in your easy chair with a drink and watching yet another show about someone else’s life or B – Living your own life socializing and making friends with successful, happy people that are all about achieving their full potential in life and helping you to do the same? It’s a no-brainer.

Living your life outside of your comfort zone reveals opportunities that you never saw before. It opens up your mind to possibilities for your life that often exceeds your wildest dreams and desires. It exposes you to people and situations that you would never have the chance to meet and experience. Yes, stepping outside of what you know and what you are comfortable with can be a scary proposition. But if you can overcome your fear and take the steps necessary to engage with the unknown, you will have overcome one of the biggest obstacles you face in creating the life that you desire to live. Remember that you haven’t gotten to where you currently are in your life without going through big changes in your life in the past, and you survived them. The changes that you will need to make and go through to get you to where you want to be are no different. You will have to become a different person than you are to live a bigger, richer and more abundant life. You may say to yourself that you do not want to be any different than you are now, but you want “more” in your life. Know that to have “more” in your life that you have to know “more” on how to manage “more” and what to do with “more” to make yours and others lives better through your state of abundance. You will become more of what you already are. If you are generous, kind and compassionate; you will be even more so. If you are greedy, self-centered, and hoard what you have, well, you get the picture. The message here is make change your friend, step through your boundaries of fear and instead of focusing on being a good person, be great.

Please join us next week for our next article in this series as we continue with Step 3 in our 12 Steps To Leaving Your Comfort Zone Behind Forever series.

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February 21, 2017 by T. Michael Fairchild

Five Steps To Get You Started In Living Your Ideal Life – Part 3 – Become Your Own Hero By Rescuing Your Time

In our previous articles, we talked about how to define the life you want. We also talked about how to prepare for your “new normal” by learning how to become comfortable with being uncomfortable. With each step you take your coming closer to living the life you dreamed of for so long. Now it has come time to discuss one of the most crucial resources that you must master in your journey to build the life you desire, time. Your time is yours to do with as you wish you can invest it, give it away, spend it building your future, or waste it, the choice is yours. But one thing is for sure, when you choose to use it, you can never have any of it back once the moment is gone. In this part of our five-part series we will show you how to be your own hero by rescuing time for your use that you may have never realized you had. Read on because the clock is ticking…

  • Rescuing your time. Time is a valuable commodity. You cannot buy any more of it that you already have and you cannot go back and recapture any time you may have wasted in the past. But there is something you can do about the time you currently have. You can plan better, work efficiently, and rescue time that you might would spend on fruitless endeavors. You can devote it to creating the life that you only currently dream about. Life is busy and time is at a premium, this is not the case in just your life, but countless others lives around the world. We all have the same about of time in our lives. We all have 168 hours in a week. This is all the time we have to do to everything that is necessary in our lives. This includes work, eating, sleeping, personal & household tasks, hobbies, kids’ soccer games, errands, get together with friends, etc. It is how we choose to spend our time that determines the quality and quantity of the life we lead.
  • Everyone from President-Elect Donald Trump and Bill Gates, to Dave Ramsey, Dan Miller, and Pat Flynn have the same time constrictions in their lives as I do and you do. But some people excel at creating remarkable success in their lives. Others, given the same amount of time, do nothing of consequence with their lives. The difference is how focused they are with the time that they have. You would be hard pressed to find anyone who is successful that spends their time watching television, hanging out at the local bar, or doing anything that had no return on the time that they invest. Many of the most successful people have, at times, sacrificed sleep to make progress towards their goals when necessary. It is easy for people to notice those who have become successful in life. They want what successful people have while dismissing, or worse, never even noticing all the hours of hard work that have been spent building up to that level of success.

How are you spending or wasting your time? What level of effort are you willing to spend to have what you want, to live the life that you desire? Is it too high of a price to not know how your team did in their last game, to not know what the score was? Is it too hard to not watch that show or movie that everyone is talking about?

Think about it this way. You can’t turn the television on when you are lying on the beach on a Wednesday morning when everyone you know is at work pounding away at their jobs, but isn’t the sacrifice worth it?

Time is your most powerful tool, how will you use it?

Please join us for our next article in our series – Part 4 – Make A Plan, Stan

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