Nothing grows in the comfort zone

My work life has come with a lot of challenges, ups and downs that have shaped me to becoming the person that i am today, i have seen this throughout my life dating back to school days when all i had were dreams of making it big in life.

I actually was one guy who use to be very comfortable in my space,I considered myself a natural at what i do, and there was literally no need for me to struggle in order to get results out of my work. 

This made me look at ambitious people differently. I actually never wanted to associate myself with people of high ambitions, and regarded them as my enemies because they use to stretch me beyond my comfort zone. 

Making  me uncomfortable in my space, they appeared to me as dreamers who lived in a fantasy world beyond their reach.

And in all these struggles, i realized that all those people with a lot of ambitions that crossed my path, achieved more than I. Whilst i enjoyed my life of comfort, i remained stuck in the same place i started from, wondering why i made no progress despite being a natural. 

I use to think that ambitious people played tricks on me, and the fact that i hated them so much, made me believe my accusations. 

It has so happened that in every chapter of my life, close to me will be one or two ambitious persons who always stretched me. 

And at the end of every chapter, they progressed and i didn’t because i remained rigid and refused to be ambitious. 

So the challenge at the centre of my life has been to choose between a comfortable life and an ambitious one. And yes, having had enough of the comfortable side of life and seeing that it has done me more harm than good, I decided to switch. 

Upon switching to a life less comfortable, a life of ambition, I found it to be more thrilling than imagined. 

This life and the challenges it presents has changed and improved my life. I began to set goals for myself, planning became the center of my life, and it transformed me to becoming more objective and less subjective.

This ambitious life has brought a new horizon in my life and I have made tremendous progress. 

This happened smoothly because I was surrounded by ambitious people. It made me appreciate all the ambitious people I crossed paths with, I no longer look at them the same way anymore.

But just after I thought life will be progressive, tables turned, I was now surrounded by the people in their comfort zones, people who lived in my past life. 

This presented a challenge that ambitious people encountered when surrounded by the less ambitious. I actually experienced karma, I felt what my ambitious comrades felt back then when I was the comfortable one.

I see comfortable people to be lazy, too subjective, fearful, stagnant and dull.

The lesson here for me has been that either way, life presents challenges, it is just a matter of being  able to balance it up.

More like no matter what you do in life, somebody is going to get hurt. And that somebody shouldn’t be you, should not be your comrades and it shouldn’t be an innocent person. 

The choice you make should be a win-win kind of result, so know when to be ambitious and when to be comfortable.

In the world of the ambitious, challenges are a motivation, whilst in the comfort zone, challenges are obstacles.