In his third book Conversations with God, Neal Donald Walsch wrote – “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” I think he is right don’t you. At least it has been my experience.

Erica Jong wrote – “Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads”. We really do not discover who we are or what we are made of, until we pass through the fringe of our experience and enter that place where comfort and convenience are left behind and discovery and risk take over. It is the place where life really gets interesting and fully rewarding, but for most of us, we opt for that place of comfort and status quo. We can read an idea, hear a challenge, think a possibility, and just not respond. We may move close, take a look, make a wish or even dare to dream, and then something happens inside, and we shrink back to a previous, safer place.

The safe place, although more comfortable and controllable, is not the place where discovery happens and change takes place. It is a place of sameness and status quo. A place where mediocrity dwells. In this place we cut off the awareness of our inner urges and succumb to the tyranny of the ordinary. It is a crowded place.

It is a place inhabited by quitters – those who never catch the vision; and campers – those who once saw the vision but at some point along the way they settled. There is however within all of us the spirit of the climber, wanting to emerge, wanting to take that risk which leads up the mountain and on to new vistas. The trek begins when we have the courage to CONFRONT our COMFORT ZONE!