You Need to Hear This

When You Get too Comfortable

It's easier to quietly keep doing your normal routine.

It's easier to keep waking up and going to that comfortable job everyday.

It's easier to keep living in the same place, in the same bubble.

It's easier to avoid red flags.

Until they blow up in your face.

Until you’ve lived in the same place, for YEARS wishing you would have moved out or wishing you would have bought that cute house you keep driving by everyday.

Until you realize you have been hanging out with the wrong people, they aren’t contributing a single positive progression in your life.

Until you wake up after 10 years of unhappiness working in your field and suddenly you have no choice but to leave your job… though, in the end it's what you should have done much much sooner but you didn’t. Because you got a little too comfortable.

Until you gain 10 pounds each year, and now you are 6 pant sizes larger than you would like to be.

You have been putting off that run, that walk, that workout...because it might make you feel a little more uncomfortable than you would like to be.

You are going through the motions in your relationship. It’s not a bad relationship, it’s not a terrible relationship but it’s not fulfilling...so you stay. Because leaving would strike up a conversation that is a little out of your comfort zone...and God forbid, would create some change in your comfy life.

We quite literally decide our own fate. We decide our own life. We decide our own path. And most importantly, we can change direction WHENEVER we want. So why don’t we? Because we fear it. The fact that we can change our lives in a split second is one of the scariest, most uncomfortable things we can do as human beings. Because it takes effort. It's inconvenient. It requires confrontation. It's uncomfortable. And shit, it takes some f*cking courage.

I quit.

We’re done.

Let’s do things a little differently.

I deserve a raise.

Where can I sign up?

Hi, nice to meet you.

I know the term YOLO really burned itself out a few years back. But this might have been the best viral advice we could have all listened to. You only live once. We have one life and we have one body. Are you pushing yourself to be the absolute best person you can be? Mentally, physically, emotionally, spiritually, professionally, socially, financially, environmentally?

Ask yourself this:

Are you making your future-self proud?

Will you look back on your life when you are 90 and say “I wish I would have…”

When do I feel the most alive? When I leave my f*cking comfort zone.

Be impulsive. But be smart... keep your future self in the back of your mind. Let’s live for today but always plan for tomorrow. Don’t forget to DREAM BIG. If you think you can, then you can. If you think you can’t, then you can’t. You decide. Many things in life are hard, but you get to choose your hard.

Freddy’s brother, Jason, lives by #NoBadDays and I think we all can all do ourselves a favour and strive for this too. One of our values at The WilsonWay is courage. So let’s all find the courage to live the life we’ve always dreamed of.

Keep pushing.

-Amy