“We cannot learn without pain.” – Aristotle
Growth is about stress. It’s about creating stress by pushing beyond where we’ve been. It’s about taking risks to explore new worlds, new experiences, new creations. It’s about embracing the difficulty and pain of uncommon effort, and even the disappointments and failures that show up along the way.
We grow because we learn to leverage stress; to see it as a time and circumstance to exercise our minds, our bodies, and our souls. We grow because we reframe difficulty and the potential for failure as opportunity. We grow because we simply move through and past the fear of pain.
No one grows within the confines of the sofa, within the safety of comfortable, yet tired, routines that take us in circles. Break out – move beyond circumstance. Embrace risk, embrace stress, embrace the pain of effort. There you will discover life extraordinary.
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