Fearless Living

Jace

Jace

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Pushing yourself slightly "outside your comfort zone" could radically change your life
for the better.

Make a conscious effort to do little things that "scare" you every single day.
Doing this, will give you the courage to do just a little more each time.

What's yours?
 

For me it is doing a number of things that have to do with my health this year. The first one will be dental. I will be having the rest of my teeth extracted so I can get dentures. The first time I had a number of them done, I went into shock and could not go back. Especially to that dentist. Actually it is the shots that affected me so much not the extracting. But that dentist would not put you to sleep. This new dentist will and I am hoping to get through this.
 
Jace said:
Pushing yourself slightly "outside your comfort zone" could radically change your life
for the better.

Make a conscious effort to do little things that "scare" you every single day.
Doing this, will give you the courage to do just a little more each time.

What's yours?
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Who says so if I may ask? I got injured pushing myself so now I listen to my body and when it demands a rest I give it one. 😊
 

This may not be "pushing" but recently I began to enjoy my own company. I think it is a healthy way to imagine who you are. It isn't easy. I have spent most of my life trying to fit in nd please others to encourage them to live as complete a life as possible, so I thought why not treat yourself the same way.
 
bowmore said:
For my 80th birthday. I flew a P-51 WW2 fighter. This coming Tuesday, I will celebrate my 84th by flying to Santa Barbara, on the 50th anniversary of my first solo flight.
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Wow! GOOD 👍 FOR YOU!!
 
If I hadn't pushed myself out of my comfort zone I would not be living where I am now. When you stay somewhere that you are not happy or miserable or scared for your life (health wise that is) because you are afraid to do something different, that is staying in your comfort zone (even though it is not truly comfortable). Life is too short for that. Though it took me almost ten years to step out of it. Just trying something new, even if it is a little thing is stepping out of your comfort zone. It doesn't have to be a bad thing.
 
When it comes to pushing that would be the only way I
d get out of an airplane with a bag of rags strapped to my back. <---Better known as sky diving to those that think it might be a good bucket list item.

I'm done pushing like I did for so many years. I don't have projects I do have a pusher. Now it's, there is time to do whatever project my wife has in mind.
 
I absolutely must do a painting job outside that requires I climb a ladder. Two steps seems to be the max and I need to go up at least one more.

I would hire someone but no one is available. Good grief I shake so bad on the second step the paint job I do should be interesting, lines and squiqqles , an abstract for sure.
 
Jace said:
Pushing yourself slightly "outside your comfort zone" could radically change your life
for the better.

Make a conscious effort to do little things that "scare" you every single day.
Doing this, will give you the courage to do just a little more each time.

What's yours?
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I believe in that too. I do those things also. I deal with a lot of chronic pain and constantly have to push through it. So, pushing through things generally, helps me cope with the pain issues.
 
Lee said:
I absolutely must do a painting job outside that requires I climb a ladder. Two steps seems to be the max and I need to go up at least one more.

I would hire someone but no one is available. Good grief I shake so bad on the second step the paint job I do should be interesting, lines and squiqqles , an abstract for sure.
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Lately, I'd get a little shaky climbing ladders, too. Probably related to changes in elderly people's equilibrium.

What helps me is putting on some headphones and listening to my music list. Do you have an MP3 or a Walkman or something like that? The music should come through headphones; directly into you ears is what works. It's like it cancels the equilibrium issue. For me, it does. Give it a try, Lee.
 
The balance thing is acting up a little these days, taking a few precautions of course. I will have to try Murrmurr's head- :D :D :D :coffee:🚣‍♂️🏋️‍♂️ phones. Still do firewood, much slower of course but it gets done.
Have lived my life, taken a few chances like moving up this way, being one of a couple people that live on this lake in the bush. That was over 30 years ago now and very few small regrets in the past. Not anymore.
Life is good for us here and of course, life is what you make of it..
 
I wouldn't push any of the "little ole" ladies around here with their walkers and strollers. If anyone pushed them, they sure would fall down on the cement. Hey, but you never know, some of 'em might be tougher than they look?
 
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Believe me, when I see one of these, there's no need for laxatives.
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I read that female spiders come into your house to keep warm, they hide away and you seldom see them. The ones you are most likely to see scuttling around in your home are the chaps looking for the love of a lady spider. Now I try to catch them safely in a jar and release them outside. I feel quite virtuous as, we all know what fate awaits him when he finds love. Poor little fella is doomed, one way or another :cry:
 
I started doing that in early childhood.

In part because the acrobatics my Dad taught us (we knew circus people) gave me a good deal of confidence, in part because some of the circus people we knew had physical disabilities yet still managed to not only.daily living tasks but some of them could ro 'stunts'. In my mind if they could learn to overcome their physical limits i could learn to overcome any discomfort or twinge of fear.

Life itself is a risk. Security an illusion. I tend to weigh risks/rewards not just do things just to push some limit. Several times in my life i have taken risks with my own safety when the 'reward' was the knowledge i did what i considered the right thing, often to aid/defend someone else.
 
This little mantra worked for me today. I got the ladder out to paint, set it up and went two steps up, got back down. Stared at the ladder and said it is just another foot up give or take to the third step. Mantra.....you did this before, you can do it again.....I did do it again. Side of house now painted. Pat on the back.....drumroll please.
 

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