Living in/out of the comfort zone.

Is it possible for us to live out of our comfort zone? We may assume that we are doing well in our life in the personal and professional fronts, and then we start living a comfortable life. This situation is the most common amongst people who have achieved some of their compromised dreams.

Compromised dreams are the small scale dreams we see after the later part of our youth - when we realise that due to the limited opportunities our childhood dreams will not be achievable anymore. Therefore we shrink our dreams by using rationalisation. Can you relate to this situation? Has it happened with you? Do you have big dreams still lying within you? Somewhere in the corner of your heart or in a layer of your mind? It may be there and that's why some people take chances of getting big things in life.. most of the times by luck... like winning lotteries or getting into quick rich schemes and most of the time get duped and loose their money or reputation or both.

Butt does it mean that there is no way to achieve the big dreams for laymen? There are... but as laymen..most of us love laying (lazying). Therefore what happens next...is one of these:

Find out where you are among the following:
1. Living a comfortable life. You have already retired your big dreams even 30 years before your work-life retirement.  It happens as small dreams replace big dreams.  So you may be looking for small and so-called achievable goals which will not qualify even as a valid dream in a real sense. Like next promotion, or eyeing the position of your boss. You go for a compromised vacation in an economy class or low cost airline with family, but you may be travelling business class for work alone as a senior manager using the company's expense. And that's why you can boast a little bit. But you know (hope you know) that your life is a compromise...no large dreams are left and you may have already settled by believing that there is no other way or vehicle to achieve your big dreams and that's why you also have started now rationalise your children dreams too. You are a dream killer now.

2. Living a so-called contented (selfish) life like a saint. You believe that you don't need more money.  And you actually don't have much of it. So you are coping up with this situation by trying to behave like a saint.  Money is as bad as sour grapes for you. You know what I mean.  And if you think you are not in this category... Check the previous category. You may be there. You are selfish as you are not going to give benefits to the society by using resources (money is a resource). You may justify by doing small charity/voluntary work, but you are not going to realize your full potential to create wealth and abundance to benefit the society after getting resourceful.

3. Still missing something in life is the third category. This is being in a state of something big from life. You want to marry a wealthy girl or boy. You know you will never be satisfied with your compromised life and that's why you always feel you are missing something or many things in life. And you are always on a lookout for opportunities to make it big. You may be of any age but you still get dreams of your big dreams. You somehow can never compromise and in case you do not get a legal and ethical mean, you may resort to unethical practice or get duped by others easily.

4. Missing something but working for it. You may have been the third category but found a way to achieve the big dreams of your childhood. You are in a way to great success as you have a vehicle to reach your destination and you are working hard to get there.

It may be possible that the opportunity to work hard to get the childhood dreams realized is presented or even given by God to category 1 to 3 persons, but category 1 and 2 will have no value for that opportunity as they have already compromised and lost in their life. They are already mentally retired. If they find an opportunity they will not be able to believe it or use it wisely.

Category 3 needs a way and may move to category 4 easily. But category 4 people are rarely found... add these are the big industrialist, successful business man, self made celebrities, founders of respected institutes and all of them are very wealthy ... at least millionaires and successful in all aspects- money, health, relationship, spiritually and socially. Do you know some of them.  Do you think they have same mind set and attitude like yours? They all have lived out of comfort zone for a long period of their life.. not just for few years. Can you live an uncomfortable life from now on till next 2 years? 5 years? Think and find out where are you in your life. Have you made any impact in this world? If no and if you are living with no dreams or compromised dreams, it's better for you to live a secluded life in a forest alone because any way you are not going to contribute any thing to society that will be significantly big. You may contribute minor things that are possible for your moron neighbour too.

Should I say wake up? No because you have not even read this writing completely as you are so much in the comfort zone...