Come On You Can Do It Wednesday July 08 2015

Come on Pop, You can do it..

Monday morning this week was cold, and frosty, and it was also the last day of a long anticipated break.

I had the choice of doing “stuff” like transferring files from my old computer, or servicing the car.

Maybe I could do something around the yard!

Or I could hang out with my four year old grandson…

We get on really well, chasing dragons, hunting for pirates’ treasure and other exciting stuff that Dads and Granddads really should do more of.

So that’s what I did, hung around with a four year old.

At an adventure park. Swinging on swings and sliding down slippery dips.

And then came this:

He was playing around on the bottom rung, and I was looking at the top, when this little voice said Come on Pop…

And so that’s what I did.

I have to admit to not being as agile as I once was, or as active as I would like to be, but I had two people to prove myself to that day: a four year old, and myself!

There were a few onlookers across the road, and they probably thought that I was a proper dork, but they couldn’t hear the voice of that little boy cheering me on.

After I’d conquered my Everest, we played on the roundabout and did a routine on the see saw!

Then to a well earned coffee.

What I did Monday was, in a small way, break out of my comfort zone.

Rather than do something “important”, I chose to risk looking like an old fool, and have fun with a four year old.

Comfort zones can be hazardous places, which seems to be a contradiction in terms, but it really isn’t, because comfort zones tend to cause you to petrify, and solidify, and get creaky and die on the inside.

There would be nothing worse than dying and then getting buried years later in my opinion.

That’s what comfort zones can do to you, and the fear of change can hold you there for a lifetime if you let it.

A simple day out with my Grand son taught me a lot this week, and has caused me to ponder a number of more important changes that I need to make in my life.

Andre Gide said: “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.”

What are you needing to cast off today?