You know, I’m not trying to be negative or offensive or anything, but after living almost 75 years I’ve come to the conclusion that some people are just LAZY…Not everybody, but some people really are.

It reminds me of that story about this man that was walking past a house, and he spotted an old man sitting, rocking in a rocking chair on the front porch.  Next to the old man was a really old dog lying on the floor moaning and howling like he was in excruciating pain.  The passing man stopped and asked the old man if his dog was okay.  “He’s fine.” The old man says.   “Well then why is he moaning and howling like that?” The man asked.  “He’s layin’ on a nail,” the old man replied.  “Well why doesn’t he move?” the man asks.  So, the old man tells him…“Well, I guess it just doesn’t hurt bad enough yet.”  

Lots of PEOPLE tend to be that way.  They might be miserable and in pain, but it just doesn’t hurt bad enough yet to make an effort to change it.  Our COMFORT ZONE – if you can believe that’s what it’s called – tends to be like that.  The pain that we’re in has become more bearable than facing the fear of the unknown, or making the effort to change it.

Let me give you a perfect example of that.  I talk to people almost every day that aren’t making enough money to make ends meet, or they’re living from paycheck to paycheck just right on that financial edge, or they want more for their family than they can afford to give, or they’re coming up on retirement and are scared to death that they’re gonna have to either work till they die or down-scale their standard of living, or they just absolutely HATE their job or a dozen other bad situations that people are in.

But when you ask them what kinda plan they have to fix it, they look at me like I asked them to explain Einstein’s theory of relativity to me.  It’s like they’re stuck, and they know they’re stuck, and they wanna get unstuck, but they haven’t even given it any thought about how to go about getting unstuck, or they just don’t think they can get unstuck.  So they just continue on – IN THEIR COMFORT ZONE – because they think that prolonging their struggle, and accepting the pain, is easier than putting forth the effort to make it better for themselves.  I’m not judging, but I might be describing you in your situation.  Only you know the answer to that.

Another situation that people find themselves stuck in is when they choose to believe what someone else says about something instead of making the effort to find something out for themselves.  Ever found yourself in that situation?  I know I have.  Rather than do my own due diligence and reach my own conclusion, I’ve accepted the opinion of someone else as my own…and I’ve come to find out later that I really missed out!  And the opposite is just as true.  Somebody says THAT’S GREAT, you’re gonna love it, just for you to discover that, NO – IT’S NOT THAT GREAT AFTER ALL.  But the important thing is that you made the decision based on your own experience rather than just accept someone else’s reality as your own.