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RANDY PERDUE

often, many never discover their purpose. Many
question the meaning of life. They aimlessly
wander through life until apathy becomes their
comfort zone. American poet and philosopher
Henry David Thoreau once said, “Most men
live lives of quiet desperation.”

In addition to the deadly comfort zone or going
with the flow, we are very good at making
excuses or blaming others or conditions. It’s all
about choosing the path of least resistance. The
trouble with this mindset is that no one else is
going to move you. We all must paddle our own
canoe. If you sit back and rest or become a
spectator to life, then by default you’ll begin to
drift along with the flow instead of where you
want to go. And water always flows downhill!

John Maxwell says that everything worth having
is uphill. And I think that most of us can
recognize and accept that when we stop and
think about it. When we’re comfortable, we
don’t spend too much time thinking about what
we want, where it is, or how we can get it.
Instead, we focus on what we don’t want and
worry about losing what we do have. And guess
what? Energy flows where your focus goes.

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