TOPIC
Challenge
Challenge is the starting point of growth. It begins where your comfort zone ends and it's where everything meaningful happens.
What is it?
Challenge appears when you step beyond the familiarity of your comfort zone and into your growth zone. Where you intentionally stretch yourself, where things feel slightly uncomfortable, but also exciting.
The issue today
We live in a comfort crisis. Our world is designed to remove friction and make life easier, more comfortable. This constant comfort erodes our capacity for embracing the discomfort that comes with challenge, and with it, our potential for growth.
Why it matters
Without challenge, we stagnate. Every time we stretch ourselves, our capabilities expand, and so too do our comfort and growth zones. This is real growth and your path to a meaningful and fulfilling life.
Start here
Embracing challenge makes you harder to break. In the first video of the Sustainable High Performance series, Pat explains why stepping into stress - not away from it - is the foundation of real, lasting growth.
What Is Challenge?
Read this introductory blog to understand the what, why and how of challenge; and where you can get started.
This blog is perfect for you if you’re ready to step up the level of challenge in your life!
Challenge 101
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It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.
— Jane Austen
