It seems contrary to common sense, now doesn’t it? Why would you willingly put yourself in a place of “unbearable” when the word itself so loudly announces its accompanying emotion as bringing you close to or right up to the point where you can no longer stand the burden, lack, deficiency, situation… “Unbearable” is good, magnificent even, “unbearable” will make you move from the dead spot, give you somewhere to go from there and something to strive for, somewhere that is worth going. It will make you sharper, more agile, more creative and it will force you to use your limited resources in innovative ways, which will in turn result in new developments that couldn’t have been found on the road often traveled. Necessity is a driving force that makes your whole person work in unison with far less duality and cognitive dissonances. From unbearable you might just have a chance to see your “perfect”.

“Good enough”, on the other hand, is a cursed place, a landfill accumulated by constant settling for the mediocre. In “good enough” the pain of staying the same never actually got greater than the pain of change and never generated enough activation energy to start moving. “Good enough” is the mother of all comfort zones, a stagnating swamp of never finding out what you’re made of and what can be achieved. It’s a lazy way to live which demands nothing of you than constant repetitions and going through the motions, never justifying you purpose for being here. The carrot dangling of the “good enough” stick is quite juicy and will occur through life in form of advice, incentives, new people, jobs, situation and relationships. They are not bad, but they are not good either – it’s just enough to keep you from searching further, and when the opportunity to move into your “perfect” presents itself demanding work, you won’t be able to see it, because this is “good enough”.

Get uncomfortable, get disjointed, try the “unbearable”. You won’t break, not at all, you’re damn strong and what you think you can do is just a projection of the collected data from all you’ve done (up to now). You have no idea what you can do.