Fail. Grow. Repeat.

So you go through your whole life without taking risks. You play it safe. You are comfortable, content. You don’t swing on highs and you don’t sink into lows. You are steady. Predictable. There is a certain peace in it, but the peace it creates keeps you from realizing your full potential.  

Hardships are necessary to grow. Struggling is important to development. Failures help you learn what not to do. Failing is more important than success because failing is conducive to learning, changing and growing.

Being comfortable is boring. Routine. I want to be on the edge of comfort, right at the cliff, toes curling off the edge. It’s an exhilarating place to be. The wind could shift and I could totter off the edge or land on my back in the dirt. Either way, it’s an experience. I imagine that each time I dangle there, the cliff-edge extends farther out. Sometimes I fall off, and sometimes I don’t. I won’t learn things by falling off or not, I will learn things from the act of teetering there, just outside of my comfort zone, by being a little uncomfortable and uncertain of the outcome. That is where the magic happens.