Wake Me Up: Morning Positivity - Morning Motivation - Success is Uncomfortable

Episode Date: August 30, 2021

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If you'd like to enjoy Wake Me Up completely ad-free and get access to exclusive bonus content, check out the link in the show notes for the Wake Me Up premium feed. Hello everyone, and welcome to Wake Me Up, the podcast, where morning people are made. I'm Tyler, your host, and I'm so glad to have you here with me this morning. The most worthwhile things in life require effort. They require sacrifice. They require us to become a better person. In short, success in anything requires you to deal with discomfort.

Today's episode is a motivational bit to help you work through that discomfort, rather than run away from it, so you can achieve everything in life you dream of. Before we get started, a very special shout out goes to Michelle. for joining the Wake Me Up Patreon community. Thanks, Michelle, for your support of the show. Now, a great day lies ahead, so let's get started. If you're in bed or if you're already up, it doesn't matter. But take a big breath in.

Hold it at the top for just a second. And then exhale. Let it all go. And then inhale again. filling all the way into your belly. Hold it and exhale. So if you are joining from bed, then take this moment to roll over,

slide out of bed, and stand up. Today is going to be a fantastic day. I just know it. So let's not waste another second of this gift we've been so lucky to receive. Now that we're all up and out of bed, Let's take a quick stretch, like we often do to help wake the body up. And we'll do my favorite, a forward fold.

But today it will hold special significance, and you'll see why in a moment. So stand up straight and reach both of your hands all the way to the sky. Reach out of your shoulders, reach as far as you can. And then on your next exhale, fold forward at the waist, but everything relaxed toward the ground. Let your arms dangle, and let your neck soften. While you're hanging out in this forward fold, feel the sensation of your muscles under tension,

your lower back, your hamstrings, maybe your calves. This, my friends, is discomfort. I know you're thinking, no, Tyler, stretching feels good. It doesn't. Think about it. You're tugging on your muscles. You're literally pulling your muscle fibers apart. The reason you think it feels good is because you've learned to deal with this

kind of discomfort. You've learned that after the discomfort of stretching, you feel better. And if you understand this concept, you are so far ahead of most people. We'll come back to that in a second, but for now, let's finish this stretch. So slowly begin to roll all the way back up to standing. And once you're there, take one more big inhale, reach your hands all the way back up to the sky, and then exhale, release, and shake all of that out. So let's circle back to that point. What we've learned with stretching is the difference between pain and discomfort. Pain we need to back out of. It will actually hurt us.

Discomfort is temporary. It's a growing pain, if you want. will. We can work through it with a little patience, understanding, and practice. And through that, discomfort will make us better. Friends, success should not be painful. It shouldn't break you into pieces. It should, however, be uncomfortable. And here's why. If you already had all of the traits and skills and the psychological framework necessary to succeed, you'd already be succeeding. All of the pieces would already be in place. You would already be the person that you need to be in order to succeed at whatever it is you want to do. Yet, we all have something we want to

succeed at, but we're just not there yet. That's because we haven't become the person we need to be to succeed at that thing. We have growing to do. We have learning to do. We have mindset changes to make. And when you're growing, well, you get growing pains. You've been living in this box of your current self. Let's call it your comfort zone. And now you're reaching for something outside of that box. You're looking to expand who you are. Naturally, as you grow, You're going to start being squished inside that box. You'll be uncomfortable. You'll have to push the boundaries of the box if you want to expand yourself.

And that requires effort. That requires you to be squished up for a little while before you figure out how to push, expand, and reshape that box. My friends, success at anything in life isn't for the faint of heart. The forces at B tend to pull us toward the average. They pull us back to what we know and what we're comfortable with. If you are trying to expand yourself, trying to become a better person in any way, you're going to have to deal with discomfort.

Because growth and success means you're working against the status quo. You're swimming against the current. If you're training to run a marathon, you'll have to push through discomfort to get your body physically ready for such a feat. If you're starting a new business, you'll have to deal with the discomfort of detractors and naysayers who don't think your ideal will work. If you're trying to be a better friend, a better partner, or a better coworker, you're going to have to deal with the discomfort of facing your flaws and mistakes. in order to be the best version of yourself for the other person. We have to make a habit of getting outside of our comfort zone. Get uncomfortable.

Because the more we practice knowing discomfort and dealing with it, the more equipped will be when faced with it. Know the difference between pain and discomfort. The former will hurt you. It will break you. It will set you back, and you should avoid it. The latter will change you.

It will make you better, but it won't break you. So you should seek it out. My friends, whenever you feel discomfort, don't run. Cautiously lean into it. Learn from it. Because it's when we begin to feel uncomfortable

that we can be sure success is on its way. That's all I've got for today. episode. I really appreciate you tuning in. If you're interested in supporting Wake Me Up and getting ad-free and promotion-free access to the entire catalog, then be sure to sign up for the Wake Me Up Patreon community. You can find a link to do that in the show notes. As always, if you have an episode request or feedback about the show, then please reach out and let me know. You can do that through the contact page of the Wake Me Up website at Wake MeUp podcast.com or on Instagram at Wake Me Up Podcast.

You can find links to both of those in the show notes as well. I'll talk to you all soon. And until then, go out, chase your dreams, and have an absolutely wonderful day.