Get Uncomfortable

"No Pain, No Gain"

Listen, if you are comfortable in every area of your life, you have a problem.  You are stuck in your 'comfort zone', doing those things that are comfortable for you to do.  Now, you might hate what you're doing, but doing what you've always done, is still more comfortable than the risk of the unknown.

Decide right now, with me, right this very minute to do something different.  Do that thing you keep telling yourself you ought to be doing.  Send that resume, talk to that person, take that action - that thing that will make you uncomfortable - because that's where the growth is.  That's where life begins.  Do it. Do it now.

Kaizen

"If you're doing something the same way you have been doing it for ten years, the chances are you are doing it wrong."

— Charles F. Kettering: was an American inventor and businessman
 
The Japanese have a philosophy that if you see someone you haven't seen for a while, you ought to be able to tell what's different.  It's a belief in Kaizen - constant and never-ending improvement.  Life doesn't stand still, why should we?  At the end of every day ask yourself, 'How did the day go? What could I have done better?' And then visualize tomorrow being better by utilizing the lessons of today.

Surrender

"Let go and let God"

There's this lie that we keep telling ourselves.  That if we really, I mean really, 'let go and let God', somehow we'll end up as a backseat driver in our own lives and never see the life we wanted.  But the truth is most of us have been stuck in commuter traffic jam hell in our lives, going the same route we see everyone else taking (so surely that's got to mean it's the right way, right?) but not really going anywhere.   When we finally surrender the driver's seat to God, He act as the GPS to our dreams and fast-tracks us.  Doesn't always seem like that when He takes us down the dirt roads in life but what He knows that we don't is, we'll save a lot of time avoiding the traffic jams that way.