We tend to gravitate toward what we want, what feels good, and what seems easy in the moment. On the flip side we avoid or resist the difficult, the challenging, and the not so comfortable. This is what we call the stretch zone, where big change, breakthrough and growth are experienced.
What if you stopped resisting what you don’t want? What if you welcomed it? Pulled it toward you? Leaned into it? What would life be like if you started doing all those things you just don't want to do? Are you willing to do, what you don't want to do, on behalf of a life well lived?
Written By Dede Henley
Thanks for the posting, so timely and helpful. Sending you all my love, Leslie
ReplyDeleteI learned a big lesson on this when my family was having friction over who would fill the water bottles. We had rules, we made agreements, but inevitably one of us would fail and the others would be irritated.
ReplyDeleteFinally I decided to make it a game: my goal was to ALWAYS be the one to fill the water bottles before anyone else could fill them.
My experience was transformed, and suddenly the thing I didn't want to do became sort of fun. Just because I decided to make it so.
ok, ok, I am now exercising. Three days in a row. I don't want to but am willing :)
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