Dr. Peter J. Weiss

Recently it seems I’m doing a lot of new things — things that I’m not espe­cially com­fort­able with yet.

I just took a posi­tion as Med­ical Direc­tor at Chris­t­ian Care Min­istry and I’m still get­ting acquainted with the team and under­stand­ing how things work.

Last Fri­day, I trav­eled to Tampa to speak to the mas­ter coaches of the Tampa Bay Pro­fes­sional Coaches Asso­ci­a­tion, and tonight I’m teach­ing health coach­ing in an on-line course.

Sounds excit­ing, doesn’t it?  Of course I do find all that excit­ing, but that doesn’t mean it’s not a lit­tle stress­ful too.

All of those activ­i­ties are good for me, but they’re also a lit­tle bit scary.  For­tu­nately, so far I’ve been able to acknowl­edge my fears, get out of my com­fort zone and push ahead.  In busi­ness they say, “Noth­ing ven­tured, noth­ing gained.”

How about you and your health?  Your jour­ney to well­ness may well require you to get out­side your com­fort zone — to learn some new ideas and adopt new behav­iors.  Per­haps it seems scary or hard to you.  That’s okay.

You’re not so dif­fer­ent from other peo­ple in that regard.  Just accept your dis­com­fort and keep mov­ing for­ward any­way.

Many of the best things that you will ever do for your­self will be uncom­fort­able.

In the gym we express it as, “No pain, no gain.”  The very fact that you’re out­side of your com­fort zone is a sign that you are mak­ing progress.  Keep up the good work.

You can do it!