Low bars

# Chapter 38

Too many of us seem to be keeping the bar low and only aiming at that which we already know that we can accomplish. I get it you really don’t want to put it out there to be criticized or that you have to step up and make it happen at a whole new level and that this is threatening and difficult. But keeping the bar low so that you don’t ever have to or need to stretch is beneath you and actually harms you in many ways. You were made for more than this. You are capable of more than this. You are punishing yourself by keeping yourself from being all that you were designed and created to become. Stop.

Don’t get me wrong, I am no more fearless than you are, and I don’t like these uncomfortable matters anymore than you do. But they have to happen, and 99/100 we are really glad that we went ahead and bit the bullet and paid the price and received these results. You need to continue your development and your growth into the best version of you. That can only happen if you are a learning machine and if you take these risks. Let me say the hard thing here, you are weak if you don’t. Weak in the sense that you chose to be less. Yes you were made for more, but your choice in life is less. Not good.

Is there a time for less, well of course there is such a time - especially when talking about retirement or contentment in your heart. But when we are talking about your power and ability and skills and reach and impact, no way! So stop reaching for what you already can do. Go for more.