Posted by ineta on Aug 29, 2010 in
starting over 
“Hi, how are you?”
“I’m fine. How about you?”
“I’m O.K.”
“Anything new in your life?”
“No. How about you?”
“The same old.”
Sounds familiar? Ooh, we are such a creatures of habit. We love our dull routines. We get so used to them, that even we love to hate them. We LOVE comfort. We love familiar. We love what we know and we do what we can to stay in the comfort zone. What is unfamiliar is scary. What we often do not realize is that in unfamiliarity we can find freedom – freedom from conditioning, freedom from the past. Yes, ankles might shake from the fear of unknown, but in that unknown we’ll find something new to learn, something new and exciting to talk about, something new to experience.
What if we would take a new route home? What if we would visit a new place that we never been before? What if we would meet new people? What if we would stop comparing new people we meet with our exes and the past? How our life would look like if we would look at it from the new perspective? Would we come alive? We certainly would. Now, if we would find time to follow our passions? Schedule them, if we have to. Our lives would be so enriched. We are worth it! We are worth to live lives we desire. Our daily routines are just excuses to be in the comfort – in the known.
There is enriched life that is waiting for us if we are brave enough to cross the line and free ourselves from the comfort trap. The unknown is like a blank piece of paper – we can fill it with any colors we want, we can choose any words or it can become any shape in origami form. It is our source of creativity. What you choose your life to be?
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Posted by ineta on Apr 1, 2010 in
change 
Comfort… What a sweet word. We do anything for comfort. Comfortable clothes, comfortable shoes, comfortable coaches, comfortable living spaces, comfortable life…
On other hand, uncertainty scares us. We run away from it. We avoid it for as long as we can. We fight it. We hide from it in a comfort of our lives. Definitely, we are creatures of comfort.
Life has to be in a balance. What often times we don’t realize is that when we are in too much comfort, we stop learning. It certainly great to be comfortable. However, if there is no challenge in life, we get stuck in our routines without learning anything. We work our everyday jobs, doing things over and over again. Days go by really fast and we become dull, stuck in our everyday life. We are happy where we are, but deep inside we know that something is missing. We got to snap out of it and challenge ourselves to do something new, something challenging, something uncertain.
Uncertainty, on other hand, challenges us. It brings us the new opportunities, lessons to learn. Good or bad – but there are always lessons. Uncertainty brings out our instincts to work. In some cases, it puts us in a survival mode. It is a great teacher. It is like opening new doors, and it is your choice which way to go. Of course, too much uncertainty is not good for us. It causes lots of stress. It causes lots of stress when we fight uncertainty as well, and not let it naturally flow.
There should be a balance. When we feel we stop growing and we get set too much in our comfortable ways, it is time to find new challenges: take lessons, learn new languages, change a career, find a new partner, go out there and learn something we always wanted to learn. Open those doors and let yourself go in whichever direction you may choose. The answer is right inside of you.
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