Comfortable "A Gift and A Curse"

                                       



              Doesn't it feel good? Waking up every morning to the chirping of birds? The rays from the sun hitting your face letting you know you're alive another day? Checking your bank account knowing your check just hit your account and your bills are already paid? Looking over at your imperfect perfect soul mate sleeping comfortably with the air or heat on? The comfortable life. We all dream about reaching that point where we can live comfortably without any worries. The day where we can cancel our gym memberships and just live freely. What a beautiful life. Retire and live out our dreams right? Get married and have a couple of wonderful kids and buy the perfect house? The American dream. How much does it cost to be comfortable? It costs a lot actually. Not only in money, but in time. Oh don't get me wrong, these things are definitely attainable but it will cost you. The question is, how much are you willing to pay? We all have our different concepts or perceptions of what exactly makes us comfortable. That's totally fine and it should be like that because we are all different. It should be our goal to one day live comfortably. Do not let anyone stop you from reaching your goals of that dream. That's why we work. That's why we wisely choose our life partner. That's why we choose our cars carefully. Everything is a choice designed at making our life more comfortable. It's a blessing to be able to reach that. But what happens when you get there is what I want to talk about. Once you get it, can you keep it? Can you sustain it? Lets see....

          Have you ever heard someone talk about getting comfortable with being uncomfortable? There's a reason for that. Once we get comfortable, a lot of us seem to get lazy. That fire that we once had goes away when we reach a certain level of success or comfort. This can be seen in accomplished athletes as well. After reaching the top, a lot of them fail to stay there because their drive is gone. It takes a lot more to stay there, than it did to get there. This is also true for relationships. A lot of times we fail to do the things that captured the hearts and attention of our mate. It happens all of the time. Oh I got my man or my woman now, I can relax. No, it doesn't work like that. You have to continue to put in the work to sustain it. Do not let the gift of comfort, curse you. If you look at the richest people in the world today, not only did most of them put the work in, but they're still working to keep it. Don't get me wrong, money isn't everything. One of the best quotes I heard about money was from a Kanye West song where he said,"Having money is not everything, not having it is." That's very true because of the world we live in. We need money to do things and live comfortable. I just don't want you to get there and stop. Continue to work and stay successful. Do not let someone else step in and outwork you. The only thing that separates us from the next person is effort. How much are you willing to sacrifice in order to live and stay comfortable. Do we get tired? Sure. Aches and pains? Definitely. Do we give up? No. Never. Do what it takes to keep your spot and let your effort speak for you. Go after what you want and do everything you can to keep it. Do not let gift of comfort be a curse to you.