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The Lion King
• April - June 2015
Pushing
Through
Your
Comfort
Zone
By Simeon Aligbe
O
ur greatest growth in life comes
from pushing through our pres-
ent comfort zone. This process
starts at birth. A baby feels safe, warm
and secure in the mother's womb.
However, to stay there much longer
than the gestation period, would
mean certain death for both the
mother and child.
Each milestone of growth and accom-
plishment for a young child involves
leaving an existing comfort zone. The
first crawl, the first step, many new, first
experiences all push from the familiar
into the unknown. For the child, the
process of pushing through their area
of comfort leads to increasing inde-
pendence and the formation of their
unique personality and character.
Pushing through to leave your com-
fort zone is hard work. Nature dem-
onstrates that graphically for us. The
chick pecking its way out of the
shell, the butterfly struggling from its
cocoon, illustrate how that struggle is
necessary in order to bring life, growth
and success even in our Job.
The good news is that, once we have
faced our fears and done it anyway,
we have moved forward to a new
place. Every time we push through,
and live out of our comfort zone, we
will never be the same. Growth hap-
pens!
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. US Supreme
Court Justice, once said "Man's mind,
once stretched by a new idea, never
regains its original dimensions."
I believe this is true of not only our
mind, but also of who we are as
unique people. Life moves into a new
dimension through each experience
we go through.
Let us keep pushing through and
moving forward towards growing our
uniqueness and living our life fully as
Lions and Lionesses.
Man’s mind, once
stretched by a
new idea, never
regains its original
dimensions.”
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