into the WOODS

It wasn’t quite a long time when I stepped into the office of Sinulog Foundation, Inc. beginning one of the memorable experiences about my college life and now I’m stepping into a whole new different world, that of the media. “Changing gears”, as I call it, it’s like being reborn into another world and it feels refreshing.

I’ve learned time and time again that life sometimes wrenches me out of my comfort zone. It’s the discomfort that’s often inherent in going out of your comfort zone that makes people think that they lack confidence, don’t have what it takes to tackle the task in hand or are better off right where they are. So wouldn’t it be great if going out of your comfort zone was easier? Not really, but it’s designed that way.
And this is the trick – to spend time being uncomfortable or experiencing discomfort without wrestling with it, squirming next to it or trying to do anything about it. Your capacity to be with discomfort increases to the point where it becomes larger than the discomfort. Your ability to experience ‘uncomfortableness’ increases to the point where it’s bigger than the uncomfortableness itself – and when you do that it longer has the same power or hold over you.

The feeling of not knowing what to do can sometimes be rewarding because you become so grounded and you want to belong and thus, you learn and become at least better at it. This website, www.francispacedout.blogspot.com launches it second version with a new “Into the Woods” Layout.

In the midst of everything that’s going in this world, we continue to dream big, I counted and dreamed of all the things I need to do and these are the reasons why I am striving to do good and do the best in every possible things I face. Being a part of the media is not really one on my list but the main reason why I chose to walk into the world of news writing and broadcasting makes me feel challenged and overcoming those difficulties enables me to become a better person. I don’t envision myself in the future being a news anchor or a new reporter but I respect the media world so much and value it that the experience of being a part of it (at least for a brief period of time) can definitely be rewarding.

To put it another way, when your capacity to experience discomfort becomes greater than the discomfort itself, you’re able to accept it and be at ease with it. You become comfortable with it.
That’s how – and believe me, I know how strange this sounds – going out of your comfort zone can be equally as comfortable as being in your comfort zone.

Picture that for a second. Picture yourself being just as comfortable going out of your comfort zone as you are in your comfort zone.