Shedding the Comfort

Just recently I mad a decision to quit, something I don't usually do. It was a tough decision to make for me. I had to ponder long and hard what it would be like to quit. There was a lot of discomfort. However, when I eventually decided to quit a large burden was lifted from my shoulders. I felt free, calm, and still with my decision.

I'm talking about my decision to no longer race Triathlons. I started competing in triathlons in 1987. In that 29 years since that first race I have completed almost every distance there is to race, including being a three time Ironman Finisher. I was signed up for a Half Ironman this year. As I started to really get into the training I started to think about the race itself. More like I started to think about the reasons I was doing the race. I realized I was doing it for all the wrong reasons. I was also breaking my own code in doing it for those reasons. Yet there was still a lot of fear in not doing Triathlon anymore.

What I was experiencing was a lack of comfort. Plan and simple I am comfortable doing a Triathlon because I have done them before and succeeded. There have been failures and disappointments, but there have been great personal victories. Those victories create a comfort zone. Time to shed that comfort, step deeper into my vision and pursue the other limits of my dream. I wrote this in my journal as I pondered not racing. "I can't be sitting on the fence hoping I can get it done. I need to jump onto the most uncomfortable side of the fence and express my energy in the way of my Vision."

I have other disappointments to overcome. I can either accept the known comfort or step into the unknown and live a higher vibration of my energy and self-expression. Pain is better then comfort when you are happy instead of just getting by. There is a measure of satisfaction in knowing that your heart races, your palms get sweaty, and your breath gets shallow because you are afraid. It can be scary and oh so invigorating all at the same time.

No fear of failure, only fear of never having lived.
No time for mediocrity, only the pursuit of higher purpose.
No days wasted wondering, days filled with full on energy directed at the edges of my limits.
Can't isn't a word, its a limitation.
Pain is temporary, quitting lasts forever.
New challenges and suffering in the physical realm to live my Spiritual Quest.

Shedding the comfort for the unknown, and smiling at the opportunity of growing more each and every day.

God Bless

Daniel

"Live remarkable and follow the Spirit in your heart."