There are normal personal growth spurts that most everyone experiences. That moment you graduate high school, thought you knew everything and start to realize you don’t know much at all. The moment you are completely financially independent and look at your money in a totally different way, maybe appreciate all your parents did for you a little more. The moment you get married and the relationship evolves to something very different than what it was when you were dating. Becoming a parent for the first time; all examples of normal growth spurts. 

A lot of growth starts with suffering. Some of the most enlightened people in this world started their path towards greatness through deep suffering. Suffering is an opportunity for change. Suffering creates a desire for change. 

By not growing our brains and our level of wisdom we actually devolve. If we are constantly feeding our brains with new wisdom, new enlightenment, we are thinking about the concepts and seeing them at play in the world. When we stop feeding our brains we stop thinking in that same enlightened way. We actually move backwards toward old ways of looking at the world.

Growth requires dedicating time for it. If you are too busy to take on another responsibility then you have to remove something from your life to make room for it.

80% don’t meet expectations, 15% meet expectations, 5% exceed expectations. Which group do you want to be part of?

Grow like kudzu. Grow in a way where nothing can stop you.