Are you on a journey of growth?

When you want to grow and find greater happiness and love, you have to be able to move beyond your comfort zone.  

To stay where you are is easy.  You take less risk and there is less uncertainty.  But there is limited potential.  Because when you are not growing you are dying. 

You have unlimited potential for growth, happiness and love.  You have to be able to embrace it and it’s not always easy.  

For example, maybe it is not always easy to speak up when something is bothering you.  Maybe fears come up.  There is risk…the other person may not hear you or love you or accept you.  It helps me to move beyond my fear and be vulnerable when I realize that I can love and accept me for honoring my truth.  For showing up authentically.  Not pretending.  

Another example is communication.  Sometimes taking the risk to reach out to another person can feel scary.  What if they are busy, what if they don’t want to hear from you, what if they feel you are pushy, what if they reject you.  When you reach out in alignment with your truth without an expectation of an outcome, and share from a place of your truth and your own love for yourself, you can move beyond your fear.  From a place of accepting yourself and not rejecting yourself.  Yes you are being vulnerable and opening yourself up.  But you aren’t fearful of an outcome because there is no expectation of an outcome.  

You get to decide about your journey of growth.  How much are you willing to do new things beyond your comfort zone if it means greater rewards in your life?

It’s like if you live in an old mansion that has the potential for so much beauty but it’s true beauty isn’t shining through.  You begin to refinish the floors and strip the old paint and apply new paint.  You lived here a long time and the old paint and floors are so comfortable because they are so familiar.  It can feel exciting while feeling unfamiliar.  Letting go of your old beliefs that are holding you back from growing can feel this way too.  Exciting but unfamiliar.  Uncomfortable to let them go because you are so used to them that they feel safe.  

What is standing in your way on continuing of your journey of growth?  What beliefs are you holding that aren’t allowing you to move forward?  What fears are keeping you stuck?  I would love to hear in the comments below.