Steve Harvey posts regular motivational speeches on his social media & this topic we're going to talk about strikes HARD...
Steve explains that we all live inside a bubble... a comfort level bubble. We go to the same grocery stores, same places we like to eat, same vacation because we know it and love it. What do you gotta do to get the life God wants you to have? You have to put more air in your bubble. You have to get comfortable being -----UnCoMForTAbLE-----
If you wanna be ordinary? That's fine! We all know a lot of really nice people who keep on keep'n on with what they got and that works for them.
If you think ordinary is what's for you? There truly are some really wonderful ordinary people in this world!
But if you have extraordinary aspirations for you, your life & your goals? You are going to HAVE TO DO EXTRA. You're going to have to get support and help from God to get in a state of comfortably uncomfortable and make it HAPPEN for yourself.
You put extra on top of ordinary? You literally get EXTRAORDINARY.
I'm sorry... That is how you find success (I feel like I'm giving a pep talk to myself right now & it's a bit painful lol).
My husband Warren is my example of someone who chooses to live extraordinarily. He is immensely driven in all spectrums and an anti-comfort zone kinda guy. He is hard-working with a life loving soul. He's dedicated to getting out of his comfort bubble & pushes me every single day to do the same.
I for one am a creature of habit. Once I set up a routine I don't like to shake it up too much... I was not accepting of change for a long time; I was very flexible? But when it came to change, shift and rearranging? It rattled my mind. I've stuck with whatever job, friendship, over-zealous plan and constant sacrifice for all others in hopes they'd see my extraordinary aspirations and reward me for them. Sticking with those ordinary things, people and placed gave me false consistency and comfort in my ordinary.
REALITY?
These jobs didn't pay me enough ($).
The majority of my ' best friendships' didn't treat me with respect or trust, or think outside of their own selves to care about how I was giving 80% to their 20% to make the relationship work.
To be fair, I knew this & I continued to subject myself to it KNOWING I would get a small trickle in return because I didn't know how to set the expectation and boundary before hand.
Warren is not this way. He fights, assesses and always reaches his hands out waiting for God to touch his mind, soul or even directly give to Warrens hands. He waits for something, ANYTHING to get out of his comfort bubble and align closer to God's divinity.
PC: Elisha Braithwaite
Story time!
When Warren & I started seriously dating in 2015 & I got lot more spontaneous & forced outside of that ordinary mind and life. We had weekly events that we enjoyed like picnics, Temple nights & date nights. No matter what, we always were enjoying ourselves. I found out later in our relationship that many times during our weekly date nights, Warren would purposely say he wasn't hungry or sacrifice his own comfort for me. Many times, Warren's bank account could only allot for one meal... and he chose me instead of himself.
After we were married on THE BEST DAY of the year (May 12) we underwent some hard core challenges with careers & finances. One example being we were laid off 5 times collectively as a couple the first 18 months of marriage.
When those life challenges continued to come....questions arose:
When was THE career (that God was obviously prepping us for) going to show up...?
When was He (God) going to open the doors that we had worked so tirelessly for...?
When were we going to be able to buy groceries, gas, everyday amenities without added interest & be debt free?
During these times of constant chaos, Warren & I had righteous life aspirations. We KNEW God planned for us to live an extraordinary life together. Warren never faltered or worried (that he ever showed or expressed). He STILL made our life extraordinary.... He was always reaching out, expanding his bubble and did SO MUCH EXTRA. Even when we were broke as a joke, Warren still made extraordinary things happen.
Warren made damn sure that our financial stress would not stop us in our tracks from something as small (yet immensely significant) as a monthly weeknight night out at our favorite spot; The Habit. THIS is how we lived extraordinary & grew to an extraordinary mindset.
Warren always makes sure our family's needs are taken care of because he KNOWS Heavenly Father WILL bless us; that the mundanes of life are not to be feared. I've never met anybody that sees the clear vision of why life is important as much as Warren does...
BOY OH BOY has my amazing Warren taught me a LOT about living extraordinary, pushing outside of my comfort bubble & life aspirations.
We all have the ability to live an extraordinary life. I am that example; living ordinary, having an ordinary mindset to working towards EXTRA ordinary & eventually the extraordinary mindset.
You have to decide to have extraordinary aspirations for you, your life & your goals. YOU'RE going to have to do more... You're going to have to get support and help from God to get in a state of comfortably uncomfortable for him to get you there. But I promise you will get there.
