"Life begins where your comfort zone

ends!"  My cousin just shared this statement with me on facebook and I believe it to be true.  I remember our campus minister in college sharing that we needed to be uncomfortable with our comfortableness.

I know as a physical therapist, the only way to build a muscle up is to make it do what it is not comfortable doing.  So, plow ahead!  Go against the flow!  We only live once.

Without discomfort we can't

get stronger.  The only way to build strength is to make ourselves uncomfortable.  Before a mission trip to Haiti (when I was in college), our campus pastor told me, "we have to be uncomfortable with our comfortableness."  That quote has stuck with me for quite some time.

As a Physical Therapist, I recognize the need for people to welcome feeling uncomfortable (pain, fatigue, burning, discomfort, dizzy) in order to make progress.  Trials (events that make us uncomfortable) are opportunities to get stronger.

Addicted to comfort

I just read a statement from some friends of ours at livereadynow.com.  They wrote "We all like to be comfortable; in fact, pain is usually an indication that something is wrong. However, we can actually become addicted to comfort, and find ourselves unwilling to live without it.

We can easily begin to make decisions based on the comfort level involved instead of basing them on wisdom. This is dangerous!

Many times in a crisis situation the right decision is not the one that is immediately comfortable. It is a good idea to practice being uncomfortable, and not letting it bother you."

I never thought of the possibility of being addicted to comfort.  I certainly believe it is possible.  Of course, we know, it's not about our comfort, but our character.