Lessons

[A.K.Light]

The other day, I was thinking about a pleasent experience that I had as the result of leaving my comfort zone. I said to myself "You can't move on the next lesson until you pass the test!" I realized how much I've been stunting my progress in life. Let me try to elaborate.

Every day, I am offered a new challenge or test. And more often than I should, I say something like "I am not ready to take this test. I am not ready to meet this challenge. That is not what I want to learn/experience right now. This has nothing to do with my current goals." But why do I pass up so many great opporunities?

Maybe I'm too focused on learning a lesson that is in the end of the book, and I can't quite figure it out because I've skipped everything before it. I'm focused on something that seems big and complex, all the while the universe keeps sending me the same little tests over and over again as I continue to reject them. You can't just skip challenges, you have to meet them.

The odd thing is that I'm ready for way more than I do. Why not meet those challenges and move on? Prove to the universe and myself that I'm ready for the next lesson? Perhaps it will open many more doors for me and it will either give me the knowledge, experience, and confidence I need to master the lessons I actually have in mind, or it will prove to me that what I'm trying to learn is actually irrelevant and I will be shown a new direction.

I know this isn't that ground-breaking, but for me, it makes everything seem a lot better. I no longer see leaving my comfort zone or doing something I don't want to do as a one time thing that I just have to deal with or avoid, but as an opportunity that I will benefit from for the rest of my life. As the result of what I did the other day, I basically eliminated two fears and opened the possibility for many more tests that I otherwise would not have been ready to take. If you think you're ready, you probably are. If you don't think you are ready, there's still a good chance that you are. And if you're not ready, trying will only get you closer.