Where Are You Living in a Box? What Will You Do to Get Out of That Box Today?

May 23, 2022
 
When you were five years old, you walked down the basketball court at the end of the street. When you got there, you looked up at the basketball hoop and your eyes got wide. You were thinking about how impossible you far away the rim was. It was so high. Only the giants on the TV screen could touch something that high. This place wasn't for you. You decided in that moment that you were too small to ever try to play basketball. The truth was, you knew that you were afraid that you would fail at basketball if you ever tried. So you didn't even try from that on. You quit basketball before you even started.
 
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Full Stack
What resource(s) were you studying today?
Daily Fuel
What did you discover during your study session?
Our brain searches for Certainty so that we can feel safe. To find Certainty, our brain created a little box and everything we see has to fit inside the box. It doesn't give a full or accurate picture.
Why do you feel this specific discovery was significant?
You have been living in a box with life. You have been living in a box of "I don't deserve to be successful. I don't deserve to be happy. I don't deserve to be rich" and this box has heavily impacted your life. Even if you saw opportunities, you wouldn't take them because you didn't feel worthy of them.
What category of life would you like to apply this discovery?
BEING
How can you see applying this discovery to BEING
You must break out of the box today. You must start believing that God loves you and He wants you to succeed.
As you sit back and survey your discovery and insights from this stack, what is the singular, simple, lesson on life you’re learning from this Discover Stack?
The boxes we live from may not be accurate. Maybe we can do more. Maybe we can Be more.