Hey Guys. Duncan again from IntelligentInvestingHQ.com.
I was listening to an audio from a mentor of mine, Brendon Burchard and he speak about the three general lifestyles that I guess most of us can find ourselves in. He talks about the Caged lifestyle, the Comfortable lifestyle and the Charged lifestyle. And I really want to discuss really briefly with you and ask the question, are you in that middle one?
The comfortable lifestyle.
A lot of people that I work with are in the comfortable lifestyle. They do not feel caged. It’s not like that they feel “hey I have absolutely no way out”.
They don’t feel trapped. They don’t feel that there’s a set of bars or walls locking them in from possibility.
They’re able to get out. They’ve got a pretty good life. When asked “Hey, how do you find your life?” The reply I often get is, “It’s pretty good” or, “It’s ok, it’s fine, it’s comfortable”
Sometimes you can believe that you’ve got to settle for what they’ve got.
They might have, you know a nice house, nice clothes, they own their own car. They get away on holidays once a year.
But often there’s a need to settle for something, or sacrifice something, or work a little bit longer hours so that they can have an opportunity to do something.
Maybe they’re not really living their full potential. They are well, just comfortable.
Maybe it’s that they don’t feel that there’s a need to change. They’re more in a rut than in a cage.
There is a path that often has been paved for them and they’re sticking between the walls of the rut. And often, your comfortable lifestyle is that you’re in the middle of that rut.
Is that where you are? Are you just settling for what you’ve got?
Are you actually living your true purpose?
This doesn’t mean you need to be fired up, you need to be charged.
You don’t need to be one of those international speakers and presenters that you see on Facebook or on You Tube and running national seminars everywhere with thousands and thousands of people jumping up and down. Or jetting around on private planes to private islands.
It just means that you’re living your purpose. Every day I know I am making a difference.
It could be you’re making a difference just to yourself, to your children, to your family.
I want to challenge you to get out of that just “comfortable” place. Don’t settle for being comfortable. Don’t settle for being just ‘fine’.
Understand what you need to do. And if you don’t understand what you need to do to get out of that comfort, talk to someone. Sometimes it could be a simple conversation. Sometimes it could be allowing yourself to hear your own thought out loud. Sometimes it could be you just talking and have someone say back to you “You know what, you’e just said X and is that what you really mean?”
I hope you can discover your purpose and start living with authenticity and with meaning. I want to make sure that if you choose to explore how to move away from that “just comfortable” lifestyle and discover what else is possible – then email me. Or send me a comment on Facebook. This was YOU can have the chance to actually live the life that you want.