Life at the end of Comfort Zone…

We all have a comfort zone, or may be several. These are the circles we draw in our lives, to protect what’s inside without doing much of the efforts. We tend to live in these zones, well because these are comfortable. We repeatedly do only a certain set of familiar actions with same habitual mindset in these zones, and we get the same results. This is like investing money only in secured Govt. bonds with known constant low returns (p.s.- I am a MBA guy J). When we live in our comfort zones, our growth gets stagnated and we settle for mediocrity. But since, we all do have dreams and for their fulfillment, we need to step out from our comfort zones to new zones. We need to expand our actions, so as to find a new us in ourself…to unlock our potentials...and to have insight into the true self.

We all know this!!…but even then, we are afraid to expand our zones, the reason being-comfort. But as they say,” You cannot make waves if you do not leave the shore”. It may be difficult in starting, but as you go with time, your new actions become your habits and you are driven to new exciting results…to a greater person.

So, its time to rezone…Dare, discover and be all that you can be…!!

In fact, Life begins at the end of Comfort Zone...

The Road not taken…

When we look back, we see a lot of options, we could have chosen…a couple of roads, we could have taken..!! It seems that we would have been in a better situation, if we would have taken the other roads. Many people may support this by arguing that the road taken actually plays an important role in determining one’s success. But I strongly oppose them because I believe that success actually depends on  your goal, your efforts and foremostly…your attitude! I would rather say, choose a path and then make it right to work for you. The path may have more hurdles than the other ones, but when you are determined to reach the goal, it ultimately takes you to the destination.

As Earl Nightingale says,”The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredly the idea, buried deep in our subconscious, will direct us along any path to its fulfillment.”

Smiles...........and tears!!

At one day, we are seen smiling & celebrating and on the other day, we have tears rolling from our eyes. I read a post asking about the same,”What is more important in life, smiles or tears?” Although at first look, it seemed simple, but it led to a chain of thoughts. Obviously, one would prefer smiles…everyone loves celebrating and enjoying…smiling always makes life beautiful. But do really tears are not equally important as smiles..??

Imagine if there were no blue devils in our life, would we be able to enjoy the happy times…would we know the feeling of happiness…and would then happiness matter to us…? One can feel the joy of being happy only after passing through bad times. Having tears is an intense feeling which takes you deep…to the depths of your heart!! You look deep within and talk to your hidden conscience. You find answers to your biggest dilemmas of life. A smile after tears bring the real joy and then, the smile makes you feel better…making you feel free. 

Smiles and tears are indispensable. They keep your life from being monotonous. And yes, there are times, when you experience a moment where the eyes love to speak for the joy in you and burst out in tears, and you just keep smiling, instead speaking it out loud. It is one such moment when the tears become part of your happiness and bring out the true joy of your accomplishment.