Do you run from the scary situations in your life or do you confront them head on?
Fight or flight?
The great thing about jumping in the deep end of certain situations in your life is at some point they will no longer be scary, because it will just be what you do.
Remember back to when you first started learning to drive a car.
You are in the driver's seat for the first time and the driving instructor is explaining to you how it all works.
You are completely out of your depth and you have no idea how you are ever going to have the freedom of driving by yourself, because it is just so hard!
You even contemplate just getting your automatic license because you have now stalled the learner car seventeen times (just in your street)!
But you soldier on, and after fifteen lessons and two failed attempts (or is that just me?), you finally get your very own drivers license!
Looking back now, ten, twenty, thirty (or more) years on you can laugh at just how hard it was to do something that now you don't even think about.
In fact, sometimes you can go for a drive, get to your destination and think to yourself:
"How did I get here"?
"Did I really just drive here"?
"I can't remember driving here"!
Something that was once impossible, is now just a daily thing you do (sometimes, without even thinking!)
Here's my personal example of jumping in the deep end:
When I first met Shannan (Biggest Loser Trainer) at the airport I was nervous as hell!
I had sweaty palms, I was stuttering and I was over-analysing every little aspect of the day ahead.
Even when we were in the car on the drive back to the PCYC I was still very jittery and perplexed.
Not that I ever showed it!
A regular James Bond!
It wasn't until about an hour and a half into the day that I had started to calm down a little, begun to relax and focus on what my role/s were for the big day.
By the third hour into the Shannan day I was probably 90% comfortable (still a little star-struck, but pretty cool, calm and collected)
Just my usual self.
Not.
Fast forward to the end of the day when I was sitting around the table with Shannan and all the hard working team from the day.
We were all sharing laughs, stories and a nice, cold (well deserved) beer.
At this point, I was genuinely comfortable with the situation and everything around me.
Moral of ths story is, for every scary, daunting, seemingly impossible task it will always become a pretty mediocre task the more you confront it.
This is how you grow as a person, confronting difficult situations and conquering them.
No matter how hard and no matter how many people tell you that it can't be done
And there will always be plenty of those people.
Sometimes, those closest to you are the worst culprits.
Do you think if you swam with sharks every day of your life your body would express the same fearful emotions as someone standing on the edge of the tank waiting to meet the 'great whites' for the first time?
Probably not.
Therefore the more you introduce yourself to these scary situations, the less scary they become.
I would love to know what scary situation you are going to make a not so scary situation in your life.
Hit the comment button below.
Keep intensity high and excuses low
Matt Collins
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2 comments:
hahaha I used to be a tomboy and quite fearless. I would take risks all the time. As the years went past I found myself working more and playing less and before I knew it 10years had passed. Im just now starting to play again and work less and what I've discovered is that I'm not that fearless anymore and am afaid of so many things that I wasn't afraid of before. So my challenge is to feel the fear again and do it anyway. It's like riding a bike isn't it you never forget hahahaha
In a movie i watched years ago, there was one comment in it that i will always remember. "Never run from fear or you will attract its attention". I believe the 'high' of accomplishment out weighs any fear - that i've had anyway.
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