Growth

Here's a fact not stated often enough: You have to get uncomfortable to grow.

Grasshopper Notes are the writings from America's Best Known Hypnotherapist John Morgan. His podcasts contain his most responded to essays and blog posts from the past two decades. 

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"The Grasshopper" is the part of you that whispers pearls of wisdom that  seem to pop into your mind from out of the blue. John's essays and blog posts are his interpretations of these "Nips of Nectar." Others have labeled his writings as timeless wisdom. 

Most of the John's writings revolve around self improvement and self help. They address topics like:

• Mindfulness
• Peace of mind
• Creativity
• How to stay in the present moment
• Spirituality
• Behavior improvement

And stories that transform you to a wider sense of awareness that presents more options. And isn't that what we all want, more options? 

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Transcript

Growth 

Here's a Grasshopper musing from a dozen or so years ago: “Growth is outside your comfort zone.”

Comfort zones, no matter how cozy, when rarely left, lead to stagnation, and are more appropriately labeled when called what they actually are: Ruts.

What's your comfortable rut?

If you truly want to grow, it won’t be comfortable, at least at first. It may not seem abundantly obvious to someone comforting themselves in a rut, but the antidote to inertia is always action.

Growth requires us to step outside of our comfort zone.

I found this profound message when it used to be called Twitter: “If you don’t decide what your life is about, it defaults to what you spend your days doing.”

If you spend your days inside your comfort zone, your life is decided for you.

Constant comfort leads to atrophy and attrition. You can’t grow when you're bottle fed on comfort; the natural growth nutrients are just not there.

Growth can be scary for someone who's grown accustomed to comfort, but sometimes we have to get scared to get going. The trick is to recognize that taking up permanent residence in our comfort zone has frightening results, and growth leads us away from the haunted house.

Here's a final thought to get more comfortable with: Decide to take a step towards growth.

All the best,

John