Disrupting the Ordinary can mean turning left when every cell in your body wants you to turn right. “No, no, no!” goes the cry. “You are going the wrong way.” But you know that turning right means turning back to comfort and familiarity; that warm blanket, worn out slippers, and possibly a nap. Not that there is anything wrong with any of those things but in this case they are all disguises for complacency, settling and the status quo.
Turning left means the unknown, risk, potential embarrassment, or perhaps not being liked. It definitely means change and will lead to growth. It will be unsettling at times. And, this choice is one of the hardest ones we ever make. The catch is, it’s not as if we can choose once and then never have to choose again. There is no resting on our laurels in this game. Complacency and comfort await us at every turn, beckoning us to return to the safe harbor.
The reason we have such a struggle is that we forget who we really are. We hold on so tightly to a concept of who we think we are. Yet this concept and the holding constricts us, often strangles us. We think we can really be hurt. We are convinced that we can be. And, I am certainly not saying that there will not be pain
We live carefully, safely. We play small yet we want more. And it’s just what we do. Once we see that we do this, we can choose something else but when we start making it wrong that we do this, we are merely back to chasing our tail. We aren’t getting anywhere except more of the same.
As the year draws to a close, I challenge you to turn the other way. Take a different approach, head another direction. It’s time we turned ourselves around.
