I am a strong believer in continuously challenging ourselves.
I’m always preaching to the guys that I work with, and one of my common phrases is “if your not failing, your not stretching yourself enough”. I try to practice what I preach, but I’m not always successful.
We don’t really know what are true limitations are until we test them. I love this quote by Les Brown.
“Don’t let someone else’s opinion of you become your reality.” -Les Brown
The reason I love this quote is that it is so true. I know it’s true, even if I won’t openly admit it in public, other peoples opinions do affect my own.
The point I’m trying to make is this, our limitations are self imposed. Yes it’s true that they can be heavily influenced by others but we are ultimately responsible.
What is this Introvert Challenge that I’m talking about?
My challenge was to go on vacation. Yes that was a challenge, believe it or not. Not because I’m a work workaholic…it will make sense…I promise.
How could I possibly have challenge and vacation in the same sentence?
As you may or may not know, I am an introvert(if the title wasn’t a good clue). I’m not going to get into the mechanics of introverts, my friend Christie at the introvertzone, is covering that topic very well. Just for the sake of this post, introverts do not like to be around people all the time. It’s not that we hate people, were not anti-social, we just need our space…and we are not huge fans of small talk.
As an introvert, that doesn’t exactly like to be around a lot of people for extended amounts of time, what did I do?
Well I decided to travel with 2,000 of my closest friends(insert sarcasm) on a cruise to the bahamas. Not only did I go on vacation with 2,000 strangers, I went single. Now, I did travel single, but not alone (singlescruise.com, show some love for the endorsement…just kidding).
Oh yeah, did I mention that I had a roommate(that I met on day one of the trip). This may not seem like a big deal to some but to an introvert, it is. Luckily I had an awesome roommate and we had a blast.
My main purpose for this post is to challenge ourselves to get out of your comfort zone. I jumped out, and I, not only survived, but I had a killer time. I plan on repeating the experience and topping it.
In a future post I will dive into the things I did to make this trip a success.
What have you done to challenge yourself?
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Hi, Nick. I found you through a comment you left at the Introvert Zone.
As an introvert, I once did a one-week trial of being an extravert. Not because I think we need fixing, but just as an experiment. It was fun to play around with, but it was really hard to get through the week. It would drive me crazy to live like that all the time.
BTW, the tooltip for your Twitter button says “join us us on Facebook.” The Facebook tooltip also has the double “us.”
.-= Hunter Nuttall´s last blog ..Greed Is Good (Michael Moore Vs. Gordon Gekko) =-.
That is a great experiment, I’ll have to try that. One week would be the max for me too, there is only so much I can take of the extrovert lifestyle.
Thanks for the heads up on the buttons. I borrowed the code from a fellow blogger and I didn’t think to check it. Maybe… I didn’t want to leave out my multiple personalities…just kidding(or am I).
You never cease to amaze me.
What you did, taking this trip, alone, knowing not a soul, Wow. I’m in awe (as I bow down before you). I guess you would have to be in the right frame of mind to be able to actually go, otherwise the stress would kill you.
Looking forward to reading what you did to accomplish this goal.
Nick, WOW! Now I know why you didn’t post for so long after your vacation. You had a lot of recharging to do!
That was a heck of a challenge, and I’m glad you enjoyed it and learned from it too. Looking forward to future posts about this.
.-= cb´s last blog ..Extroverts don’t understand: The exhausted introvert =-.
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Have a nice day
Nadine
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