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It’s one thing to just say “what doesn’t kill me makes me stronger,” but when’s the last time you actually put this statement to the test and went out and lived it? Or in other words, when’s the last time, fears aside, you followed your hearts calling, and in a true act of trust, completely surrendered by courageously choosing to venture outside your comfort box and into the great unknown of the unexplored new territories of life’s foreign terrain.
When we choose to do things that may make us feel actively uncomfortable, it sets our lives into a momentous motion thus enabling us to receive the precise pushes necessary to expand beyond the previous preconceived limitations we’d falsely labeled as restrictions in our minds.
Life’s hardly learned by someone telling us how to do it. Life’s learned through experience. So get out there, take the training wheels off and fuck up and fail already. Success isn’t defined by money or status. How successful you are is determined by the sheer will you have to get up each and every time you fall flat.
And for god sakes, quit waiting for some high of motivation to pick you up and rush you into sweeping changes. Choose what you want in your life in each moment and start creating the changes you’d like to see right now!
Allow the art of expansion to become a regular life practice, but try to do your next to leave out all the forced rigidity. Constantly telling yourself I need to expand, heal, grow and change before I’m ready to do anything is completely unnecessary, and then you wonder why this is rigid mentality keeps stuck in the same place running on the hamster wheel.
How do you spend your life? Stocking, saving, planning for one day in the future where you’ll feel more confident and ready? That day doesn’t exist. Don’t let the shoulda, coulda, woulda monsters eat your brain.
Hiding your talents away until you believe they’re perfected is a fools game. Put yourself out there now. Trip, fall, fail. Then practice rising up again each time you do. Receive the feedback you need and then grow.
Failure IS what makes us stronger, and that’s the thing, if you are actually out there on the front lines sticking your neck out by following your passions and dreams…YOU WILL FAIL at some point, I promise, and many times. Accept failure as an eminent part of the journey up life’s mountain.
Everyone falls flat on their face at some point, but those who we’ve deemed successful have handled, dealt with and survived these failures much better, than those who quit and throw in the towel because they trusted they had the strength and ability to rise above it. Struggle builds character, and that’s why the people who are afraid to fail who never go anywhere new in life because they won’t risk it.
The issue is never failure itself, it’s how we perceive it. If failure was seen in an accurate light it wouldn’t even be seen as a pitfall, but more of a redirection.
So if what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger and failure builds character, what WILL ACTUALLY kill you? Well, I’ll tell you…it’s a life of stagnation and monotony. The feeling of disappointment is that something didn’t go as planned or rejection is temporary. The nastiest sting of all is regret. Living out the rest your days wondering what could’ve been if only you tried, but because you felt afraid of the outcome didn’t act…well that will scar your fucking soul.
Life isn’t meant to be lived standing still, and the people who fear death the most are the ones who never even live.
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