#disruptmediocrity

I had the privilege of attending an intimate seminar with the great Dr. James Rouss.

He hit on two key points.  Only one (1) of which I will discuss today.

1.  Disrupt Mediocrity
2.  People just want to be seen

What does it mean to disrupt mediocrity?  I have come to see it as disrupting the flow of comfortability, interrupt our complacency, stop being "ok" with where we are, and do not compromise.

How amazing is it to be comfortable?  It feels incredible, right?  I absolutely love feeling comfortable whether it be in my favorite sweats (which I am wearing right now) or maybe remaining from telling someone something because I am afraid of how they will respond.  Being comfortable in the sense of living life is something, as a species, has always been our primary focus...From a Darwinistic approach, our main goal is to survive and what we have discovered is that comfortability is our safest route to staying alive....but is it?  When we are comfortable, it is generally with something we have done before, we know it, we understand it, we know what its going to do for us, we know it we know it we know it!  What we "don't know" is where uncomfortability arises, where fear taps in, the unknown slowly begins to disrupt mediocrity but to disrupt being mediocre is to go against what we instinctually have come to know as being comfortable, our safe house.
In order to disrupt mediocrity, we need to step foot outside of our safe house, out do and out perform the self we were the other day, or this previous moment.  It is easy to become complacent.  This falls back to being "ok" with where we are and what we are doing.  I am all for embracing our current circumstance but this is not an excuse to stop evolving, leaning, and growing.  You see, we tend to compromise what we want with what we are given.  We settle.  Well guess what, DONT SETTLE!  Never settle, life is not meant to be lived in a complacent state, just being "ok", ad compromising aspects of our life for others.  Uncomfortability sucks, I know it does, and I'm sure you know too!  But have you ever been in an uncomfortable, unknown moment, and made it out alive?  ABSOLUTELY YOU HAVE.  I know you have and you know you have.  So what is stopping us from disrupting mediocrity?
We are...yes...we are...we are allowing our stories to keep us tied down to where we are.  We can only go as far as we allow ourselves to go.  With this story we tell ourselves, we are either limiting or expanding our ability to venture further and deeper into the incredible, awe generating moments of life.  If you want to grow, if you want to transcend your current platform of self, we must be willing to get uncomfortable.  We must be willing.  That is by far the most imprint characteristic when disrupting mediocrity, we must be willing.  When you are willing to do whatever it takes, you will get to wherever you desire most.  Start with this, perform one thing a day that is uncomfortable.  Empower yourself through these micro-successes.  Your uncomfortable moment may be big or small, size doesn't matter, it is the fact you are deliberately putting yourself in that position, working in it, and then moving beyond it with the attitude of "I can and I did".

Peace and Love to you always.