Every next level of your life will demand a different version of you.

Why? Because life is about reaching outside of your comfort zone, acclimating until you are comfortable, and then repeating the process.

Every time you leave the familiar you are granted a new set of armor. As Jim Rohn said,

if you want to have more, you have to become more. For things to change, you have to change.

For things to get better, you have to become better. If you improve, everything will improve for you. And every time we expand

ourselves, we are forced to change in some way, evolve. So many of us fall into the trap of waiting

for the perfect moment to jump. There is no perfect moment. How could there be? There's no perfect time to step out into a world you're not prepared for. But that's life. We jump and we grow wings on the way down. We step into the chaos and acclimate. By walking into the dark, we are forced to become the light.

This makes staying where you are the most dangerous thing you can do.

Let's use our imagination for a second.

Let's say you reach for the next thing.

You stretch yourself.

Move towards something you really want and you fall short.

Okay? Time to breathe. Reassess, step back

for a second, and re-approach a little better this time, a little wiser this time. As long as one

remains engaged in this cycle, growth is inevitable. But now, let's say you never step in.

Let's pretend the idea of moving into the unknown is too much,

and you'd rather stay with the familiar, pain-free, you think to yourself,

but you would in fact be wrong.

See that discomfort, one step up, it would force you to to evolve to see yourself as someone who steps into hostile territory and survives

And maybe it's not pretty maybe it's not perfect but you attack and you survive

And sure the difference between where you are now and only one step up isn't much.

But what about that second step or evolution?

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