Why do people stay in their comfort zone?
Essentially they do it to avoid failure.
But here’s the thing, if you really wanted something and it was inside your comfort zone, don’t you think you’d already have it?
Everything you really want, that you don’t already have, lies outside your comfort zone.
Staying in your comfort zone is therefore a sure fire way to fail.
One of the greatest lies we tell ourselves is that we’re falling behind. That someone else is ahead.
As a young man I associated strength with force; louder voices, sharper opinions, firm lines in the sand.
There’s a strange kind of pride we’ve developed in being exhausted. But even lions, the king of the jungle, rest.
I can't remember a time in my life when I didn't have ambition.
We sometimes believe strength means self-sufficiency — that being independent means being isolated.
We often try to outrun the storm, emotionally, physically, spiritually.
We’re entering an age where machines do our thinking before we’ve even had a chance to try.
In church the other day, the pastor gave a sermon that really stuck with me. He talked about two people.