A sound-minded friend once told me if you keep lifting the same weight every day, you'll never make any progress. In fact at some point you'll get so comfortable, you'll feel you've reached the peak of your comfort zone. This will give the illusion that you've reached your potential, you know everything you need to know. You're at the top of your game but you've lost sight to the fact that you haven't made any progress for however many years.
I wanted to touch on the necessity of ongoing personal growth today. I see many people here in the States that are surrounded by ease and comfort doing the same role they did for donkeys' years. People remain in their positions for 20, 30 years only moving up when it is absolutely necessary and don't feel the need to push their boundaries. The thought alone is scary, imagine not having the drive to escalate onto greater things and levels of personal progress but yet be surrounded by all the opportunities of the world. The need to grow and challenge oneself should be an innate human instinct so that you can look back every so often and be proud on the challenges you've overcome and progress you've made.
Here in the US the common mentality seems to be the other way round. People celebrate the fact that one remained at the same company doing the same job til retirement day, it's an honour! One is proud he/she was able to do a job at 55 that he or she was doing at the age of 25. Anyway that's my rant for the day.
I had the most delightful day at work. Working on the Friday youth series, I interviewed a young, dynamic lady who had a rare approach towards Somali nationalism and literature. She's as young as 26 and spent most of her life in the West but had this unique connection to her homeland writing, composing and reciting poetry in Somali, an uncommon attitude amongst most Somali youth of today. Look out for her story as part of this week's youth series...
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