A friend of mine is undergoing very painful physical therapy. It’s agonizing for me just hearing her or her husband describe what she goes through in those sessions.
Our conversation today brought up a whole raft of thoughts. I felt an AHA coming on and maybe you will too.
While she has a constant pain in her shoulder from the surgery, when she goes to the therapist her pain is made much worse. Plus there are all kinds of painful exercises to go through when she goes home too.
Here’s the AHA!
She has a constant lower level pain compared with what the therapist will cause on her three day a week visit. By her voluntarily going into that clinic, she knows her pain will be much worse all day long and into that night.
The question then is all about outcome. In order for her to be pain free she must go through more pain to get there. If she stops going before she’s healed, she’ll have less pain three days a week. But, she may never heal properly and may have to put up with constant pain for years instead of months.
So, knowing that, is it worth the pain? Of course!
What kind of pain are you in today? Maybe pain is the wrong word. How about frustration or fear?
Or, are you fearful of making a decision because of the possible negative outcome?
In order to migrate a better destination we may have to go through pain, frustration, fear, or even after we’ve conquered all of that, we still fail anyway!
Some people avoid pain or discomfort easily. How? By living in a constant state of discomfort. They live dreary lives that they may not like, but what they know is preferable to the “unknown” of doing something different.
Zig Ziglar called this a “comfort zone.” Anyone can get in a rut and confuse it for shelter. That part of the mind that might otherwise seek the body and mind improvement just shuts down.
The irony is that extreme pain or discomfort might not even be required to advance to higher stations in life. Maybe it’s just the fear that it might or even the refusal for some to explore the possibilities!
This is why I always encourage the use of two measurements; Risk/Reward or your F.E.A.R. index.
Risk/reward is obvious. There is a ratio that you can answer for yourself right away. What’s the risk and is it worth it, if the worst happens, to seek your intention or reward?
F.E.A.R., as you may have seen in my previous writings, is First Evaluate According to Risk.
When you feel fearful about making that next move or asking for something, use either one of those to help your decision along.
Right now, examine your own comfort zone. Is where you are what you want? If not, did you just get comfortable there? Use Your Inner Wizard to help you out. Your own intuition is a built in creative problem solver.
Big rewards may entail big risks. You’ve done it before in life, whether you remember or not.
Failure is not the problem. Quitting is.
More Power To You!
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