In my 20s, I was a corporate robot. For me, hobbies and weekend outings with friends kept me distracted as the years kept passing by. Then I came across a gentleman who took me under his wing and recommended a YouTube video. This video became my gateway drug to studying success and consciousness. I began to do the things that people say they're going to do but don't — like writing a book and turning down invitations to other well paying jobs to follow my passion instead.
The worst thing in life is not money getting away from you. It's not people getting away from you. It's time… getting away from you. -Elisha Hall
I made a decision to have the things that I spend the majority of my life on be meaningful to me. For some that mean being an entrepreneur for others that means finding value in a job beyond a great compensation plan. If the average person is on the job 40 hours a week for 20 to 30 years. That's a major chunk of time being on the job. The interesting things about that is an article in Forbes mentioned that 70% of people and 80% of millennials are unhappy with their jobs.
Why am I talking about jobs if this article is about having the courage to JUMP? Simple, Many people have gotten comfortable in their discomfort and that state of complacency is keeping them from taking the big leap! In order to jump you have to understand what's keeping you from jumping. Companies now are focusing more on their culture and employee atmospheres that are better for production and well being. Sometimes the jump a person is looking to make to find more satisfaction is to a company that values it's employees as much as it does its bottom line.
The only thing in life that is certain is uncertainty. We really can’t predict how it’s all going to turn out. So learn early on to roll with the punches, without being afraid to occasionally punch back. Go with the flow and ride the wave, as long as we keep in mind that we are riding the wave, the waves not riding us. What separates movers and shakers from the ones who just get taken along for the ride? The ability to jump. The only way that any of us will ever live up to our true potential is to jump.
Our greatest obstacle to doing that is ourselves. Your nervous system is setup to keep you in your comfort zone. So we are literally wired to stay mediocre. The purpose of your subconscious mind is to store and retrieve data. By the time you reach age 21, you’ve already permanently stored more than one hundred times the contents of the entire Encyclopedia. In fact, under hypnosis elderly people can often remember, with perfect clarity, events from fifty years before. Your unconscious memory is virtually perfect. To keep it real, it is your conscious recall that is suspect.
Why am I talking about jobs if this article is about having the courage to JUMP? Simple, Many people have gotten comfortable in their discomfort and that state of complacency is keeping them from taking the big leap! In order to jump you have to understand what's keeping you from jumping. Companies now are focusing more on their culture and employee atmospheres that are better for production and well being. Sometimes the jump a person is looking to make to find more satisfaction is to a company that values it's employees as much as it does its bottom line.
The only thing in life that is certain is uncertainty. We really can’t predict how it’s all going to turn out. So learn early on to roll with the punches, without being afraid to occasionally punch back. Go with the flow and ride the wave, as long as we keep in mind that we are riding the wave, the waves not riding us. What separates movers and shakers from the ones who just get taken along for the ride? The ability to jump. The only way that any of us will ever live up to our true potential is to jump.
Our greatest obstacle to doing that is ourselves. Your nervous system is setup to keep you in your comfort zone. So we are literally wired to stay mediocre. The purpose of your subconscious mind is to store and retrieve data. By the time you reach age 21, you’ve already permanently stored more than one hundred times the contents of the entire Encyclopedia. In fact, under hypnosis elderly people can often remember, with perfect clarity, events from fifty years before. Your unconscious memory is virtually perfect. To keep it real, it is your conscious recall that is suspect.
Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it. -Samuel Smiles
So why is this important? Because we have to understand our programing in order to override it. All of use have been taught by our parents, guardians, teacher, and past experiences. We've gone throw rejection, been told no over and over, told what we cant accomplish and our subconscious has recorded it all. So when new opportunities come alone that are outside of our normal reality our nervous system tends to react in a negative way!
Your subconscious mind has what is called a homeostatic impulse. It keeps your body temperature at 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit, just as it keeps you breathing regularly and keeps your heart beating at a certain rate. Through your autonomic nervous system, it maintains a balance among the hundreds of chemicals in your billions of cells so that your entire physical machine functions in complete harmony most of the time. Your subconscious mind also practices homeostasis in your mental realm, by keeping you thinking and acting in a manner consistent with what you have done and said in the past.
Your subconscious mind causes you to feel emotionally and physically uncomfortable whenever you attempt to do anything new or different. All in an effort to keep you thinking and acting in a manner consistent with what you have done and said in the past.
You can feel your subconscious pulling you back toward your comfort zone each time you try something new. Even thinking about doing something different from what you’re accustomed to will make you feel tense and uneasy.
The key to overcoming this is something I learned a few years ago. The movers and shakers of this world are always stretching themselves, pushing themselves out of their comfort zones. They are very aware how quickly the comfort zone, in any area, becomes a rut. They know that complacency is the great enemy of creativity and future possibilities.
Your subconscious mind has what is called a homeostatic impulse. It keeps your body temperature at 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit, just as it keeps you breathing regularly and keeps your heart beating at a certain rate. Through your autonomic nervous system, it maintains a balance among the hundreds of chemicals in your billions of cells so that your entire physical machine functions in complete harmony most of the time. Your subconscious mind also practices homeostasis in your mental realm, by keeping you thinking and acting in a manner consistent with what you have done and said in the past.
Your subconscious mind causes you to feel emotionally and physically uncomfortable whenever you attempt to do anything new or different. All in an effort to keep you thinking and acting in a manner consistent with what you have done and said in the past.
You can feel your subconscious pulling you back toward your comfort zone each time you try something new. Even thinking about doing something different from what you’re accustomed to will make you feel tense and uneasy.
The key to overcoming this is something I learned a few years ago. The movers and shakers of this world are always stretching themselves, pushing themselves out of their comfort zones. They are very aware how quickly the comfort zone, in any area, becomes a rut. They know that complacency is the great enemy of creativity and future possibilities.
You've got to give everything you've got to get everything you want! -Byron Nelson
For you to grow, to get out of your comfort zone, you have to be willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable doing new things the first few times. If it’s worth doing well, it’s worth doing poorly until you get a feel for it, until you develop a new comfort zone at a new, higher level of competence.
As a former, “I don’t need anyone’s help” kinda guy, it took a mentor asking me who is apart of my team for me to get that I needed to surround myself with the right type of people. People who are also looking to live on the edge of their comfort zones will help push you in your journey. It's like exercising alone verses working out with a group. Everyone is pushing each other to do better and everyone wins. So surround yourself with like minded people who are also looking the make a BIG JUMP!!
It's also important even imperative to set goals. Think of yourself like the captain of a ship. If you set out from the shore and say “I think I want to go to Hawaii” but you're not sure and you don't chart a course you wont get there. A lot of people do this, including myself. I've taken the jump without setting clear goals, and I found myself out there winging it. Trying to figure things out on the fly is like being in the middle of the ocean with no compass. Then we wonder why we end up on the rocks. Now I not only set 10, 5 and 1 year goals, but I also set monthly and weekly and daily goals. To be extremely honest, I hate “TO DO LISTS”. I find that this just gives me a lot to do, and if I don't do something I piles on the list for the next day. So the goals I set are what I want my results to be, then I do action in accordance give me those results.
The last thing I'll go over that helped me to JUMP when I really had no other choice. I have to acknowledge that living at the edge of your unknown can be scary as hell, so replace your fear with desire for the passion you are pursuing! Take a few minutes every day and visualize it. What does it look like? What does it feel like? Who is around you? When you can stay in that state you are more likely to cultivate your passion. This switches our focus from the obligation of greatness to the opportunity of greatness!
As a former, “I don’t need anyone’s help” kinda guy, it took a mentor asking me who is apart of my team for me to get that I needed to surround myself with the right type of people. People who are also looking to live on the edge of their comfort zones will help push you in your journey. It's like exercising alone verses working out with a group. Everyone is pushing each other to do better and everyone wins. So surround yourself with like minded people who are also looking the make a BIG JUMP!!
It's also important even imperative to set goals. Think of yourself like the captain of a ship. If you set out from the shore and say “I think I want to go to Hawaii” but you're not sure and you don't chart a course you wont get there. A lot of people do this, including myself. I've taken the jump without setting clear goals, and I found myself out there winging it. Trying to figure things out on the fly is like being in the middle of the ocean with no compass. Then we wonder why we end up on the rocks. Now I not only set 10, 5 and 1 year goals, but I also set monthly and weekly and daily goals. To be extremely honest, I hate “TO DO LISTS”. I find that this just gives me a lot to do, and if I don't do something I piles on the list for the next day. So the goals I set are what I want my results to be, then I do action in accordance give me those results.
The last thing I'll go over that helped me to JUMP when I really had no other choice. I have to acknowledge that living at the edge of your unknown can be scary as hell, so replace your fear with desire for the passion you are pursuing! Take a few minutes every day and visualize it. What does it look like? What does it feel like? Who is around you? When you can stay in that state you are more likely to cultivate your passion. This switches our focus from the obligation of greatness to the opportunity of greatness!
