Comfortable Being Uncomfortable

If there's one thing that continually pops up when reading, listening, and learning from the various sources I pull from, it's that we must seek out and get comfortable being uncomfortable. That discomfort is where the improvement is made. It's where we are afraid to push ourselves, because we don't want to be uncomfortable. We rationalize it and tell ourselves there is nothing to be gained from it. In reality, we know that, on the other side is improvement (in some form). But we don't know just how uncomfortable it will be, or for how long, or how much improvement to expect. So rather than pushing to find out, we sit in our bubble, staying comfortable, minimally changing. Find where you're uncomfortable, and start pushing to get there. Physically, mentally, emotionally. It's the only way to get better. And once you do it, keep doing it. Obviously your bar for "uncomfortable" will change; this doesn't change the fact that what becomes uncomfortable must be the new standard.
I'm reminded of Angela Coon, on the Charlie Francis message board, noting that when she felt least like doing contrast showers was when she needed them most. The same is often true of mobility work, "core" work, stability, you name it. Neglecting something because you don't feel like doing it (or because you suck at it) is the surest way to guarantee you won't get better at it; and, in reality, likely will end up suffering for it (and suffering more than you will just doing the thing you don't want to).

“I don’t think you should just do what makes you happy. Do what makes you great. Do what’s uncomfortable and scary and hard but pays off in the long run…let yourself fail. Fail and pick yourself up and fail again. Without that struggle, what is your success anyway?” –Charlie Day

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God damn, just came across a post by Stuart McMillan (while perusing the internet as I'm trying to write - yes, I shouldn't do that): "If you're not uncomfortable, then you're probably stuck at an 'acceptable level.'" -Cal Newport