Weekend Quote: Uncomfortable

So much to tell you but I’m oh so tired.

I’m laying on my bed in a hostel in Toronto. 

Wait. Did I just type that?

Wow. I did and it’s true! How freakin’ cool is that?

I have been severely pushing myself out of my comfort zone this weekend. First, I got on a very tiny plane — yikes — which took me to Toronto for a conference I feel l have no business being at. I navigated a city I don’t know, checked into a hostel for the first time ever, met a blog reader for lunch, and wondered around this cocktail party for a few hours where I knew NO ONE.

Not a soul.

“You have to be uncomfortable in order to be successful, in some ways. Because if you stay in your comfort zone, you would never do the things that you need to do.” -Lights

Well, according to Lights — who happens to be a Canadian pop star — I’m doing things right. I guess only time will tell. All I know is I’ve never made progress towards any goal without experience some discomfort.

Okay, sleepy time for me. Long day of conference sessions tomorrow!

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This is difficult and uncomfortable…

…it seems unending and may cause discouragement.

It can be time consuming and doesn’t pair well with procrastination.

It will cause mental (and maybe even physical) fatigue, and cause you to second guess your good intentions.

It probably requires a mind-boggling level of commitment.

At some point you might just wanna screw it all and regress to a lesser variety that doesn’t go against the grain.

It’s the pursuit of your goals, and I’ve taken the liberty of calculating some of these difficult risks for you.

The pursuit of anything worth having will be difficult and uncomfortable. These risky discomforts simply come with the territory. Do your absolute best to maneuver through it well.

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