Growth begins at the end of the comfort zone
He
handed them over to a man who was expert in training falcons.
After
a couple of months, the trainer informed the king that one of the two falcons
was doing really well. Flying majestically! Soaring into the heights of the
sky!
But
the other one had not moved at all from its branch from the very day that he
had started training them.
The
king brought healers and sorcerers from all over the place to try and get the
falcon to move but the bird just wouldn’t fly.
Having tried everything he could, the frustrated king said to his minister, “Maybe we need someone more familiar with nature, someone who understands animals and birds. I think only such a person can solve this problem. Go. Look for someone like this from the countryside and assign this task to him.”
The next morning, the king was thrilled to see the second falcon soaring high above the palace gardens. Delighted he called his minister and asked him to get the doer of this miracle to him.
The
minister brought a simple farmer to the king. The king asked the farmer, “How
did you make this falcon fly?”
The
farmer replied, “It was very easy your royal highness. I simply cut the branch
on which the bird was sitting.”
We are all created to fly, to live by the incredible potential that we have all been invested with. But often we sit on our branches, clinging to the things that are familiar to us, remaining stuck in our comfort zones not willing to venture out, not willing to take risks. The possibilities are endless, but for most of us, they remain undiscovered because we continue to confirm to the familiar, to the comfortable, to the mundane. So for the most part, our lives are mediocre instead of exciting, thrilling and fulfilling.
What is the branch that is holding you back?
