Break out.

“Everything you want is just outside your comfort zone.” 

 Robert Allen

If you think about it, there can be no growth without some discomfort. To become “bigger” you must exceed the confines of your current boundaries. Pushing yourself up and out.

To become a better athlete, you must work out and break yourself down to enhance your physical strength, increase your speed and raise your stamina. Speaking from experience, that brings some hurt.

To become all you can be academically, you must study in an intentional and intense manner. There are honors classes and graduate courses. Projects, clubs and societies. Endeavors guaranteed to take take you out of your comfort level – but essential to open the door to opportunity, towards a degree, certificate and your life’s vocation.

To embrace all you can be artistically, you need develop your expression. You must create, discern the result and begin again, again and again before it develops a resonance within others. Failure must be an option if you intend to ultimately achieve what lay within.

And to become a better person, you have to learn to give up yourself and “leave it on the field”. Especially as a member of a team, you must learn to set aside some of the things you might want, need or dream of so that the whole can become what it is intended to be at this moment. The sacrifice needed to release potential and spur achievement.

Whether muscle soreness, mental exhaustion, or the uncertainty that can accompany sacrifice, each can be tough adversary to face and overcome.

And all reside exclusively just outside of your comfort zone.

It is a choice.

Remain confined.

Or break out and grow.